iPhone Arriving on T-Mobile Network, confirms T-Mobile Manager!

This in indeed HUGE for T-Mobile users in US! Finally, Apple iPhone might be made available on T-Mobile network. Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired has almost confirmed T-Mobile to carry the iPhone 3GS later this year. Surprisingly, iPhone 4 will not be available. Chris tweeted - “A T-Mobile manager casually mentioned to me that they’re going to get the iPhone 3GS (but not 4, oddly) later this year.”

Notably, few months back, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu, reported that T-Mobile has greater probability instead of Verizon wireless as its network wouldn’t require Apple to build a separate iPhone 4 to support it. He further added that T-Mobile’s 3G services (UMTS/HSPA) supports 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz frequencies while AT&T supports 850 MHz and 1900 MHz frequencies. Interestingly, both the new iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS support 3G at the 2100 MHz frequency and, from our understanding, the technical hurdle to support T-Mobile is minor compared to supporting CDMA technology at Verizon and Sprint.

If the rumors turns out to be legit then this would be the first time in US that iPhone will be made available across multiple carriers apart from AT&T and eventually increasing the iPhone sales by a little more than a third. Well, rolling out iPhone across major US carriers might play a pivotal role in increasing iPhone sales significantly. Imitating Google? What do you think? Any thought?

You might also like to check out more on iPhone carrier availability:

• iPhone 5, Verizon iPhone 4 coming in October?
• No iPhone 4, iPad on Verizon in Immediate Future
• Verizon Testing CDMA-Compatible Apple iPads on LTE 4G?
• iPhone 4 / iPhone 5 on Verizon to Gallop on 1.2 GHz Processor?
• Verizon iPhone 4 [CDMA] to Retail at $320 in Q1 2011

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