Verizon ready for iPhone, wishes Verizon's CTO

Sure, we iPhone users (on AT&T's network) don't have to pay separately for email. However, AT&T charges a separate fee of $5/$15 per month for 200/1500 SMS (and now MMS) messages, on top of the $30 per month that we pay for the 'unlimited data' plan,  in addition to our monthly voice plan fees. So, I think that AT&T does their fair share of nickel-and-dime work.

As far as the iPhone being made available though Verizon, I still seriously doubt that it will happen - at least not until Verizon and AT&T (along with every other US carrier, other than Sprint, if they're still around then) move to LTE for their 4G network infrastructure. First, why would Apple waste time and money engineering a CDMA phone that would only work on Verizon's (and, possibly, Sprint's) network, when Verizon is already committed to moving their network to LTE in the next few years?

Just as importantly, think about how hamstrung the iPhone would be on a CDMA network, considering the limitation of not being able to use voice and data functions at the same time! Let's see... You want to download an app or check your email, but you can't because your on the phone or awaiting a call. Then there is the (much hyped) limitation of not being able to look up any online info while on the phone. Considering that Apple considers the user experience of key importance in their products, I think that this limitation is a deal-killer.

Pundits have been talking about the iPhone on Verizon for a long time, and now some are starting to say what I've thought all along - T-Mobile, not Verizon, will become Apple's second US carrier for the iPhone because, while they aren't anywhere near as big as Verizon, they use GSM and I'm sure that they are more than willing to essentially do whatever Apple wants, to get the iPhone onto their network. With as controlling as Verizon is, I think that they and Apple would end up butting heads too much to ever reach a deal.

Verizon couldn't look more any desperate to get the iPhone if they tried.  Here's a little advice Verizon.  You probably shouldn't run an aggressive ad campaign attacking the very device that you're so desperate to have. You already pissed off Apple in the first place by rejecting them 5 years ago, this can't be helping much.

I'd personally rather see iPhone get to TMobile and Sprint, and leave Verizon as the only carrier without it.  Honestly I don't feel like they deserve it.  They rejected it initially of course, but NOW that its a huge success they want to reap the rewards after choosing to not take the initial risk.  Regardless of how bad ATT is, they took that initial risk and made the iPhone possible, and now Verizon wants to reap the benefits AFTER its become huge.  Verizon should have had the foresight and intuition to see this would be a radically game changing product.  Of course T Mobile and Sprint didn't take that risk either, but they never were offered, and they also aren't being sore losers and aggressively attacking it. 

I've never liked Verizon long before the iPhone came out, and I never will.