T-Mobile Next to Get the iPhone?

From PC World: Just when the annual iPhone-on-Verizon rumors were starting to calm down, a new batch of rumors has started, this time claiming that the iPhone may come to T-Mobile, instead.

Shaw Wu, an analyst with the investment firm Kaufman Bros, is telling investors that the iPhone may come to T-Mobile USA as early as this fall. In a note to clients, Wu said that the iPhone will be available on multiple carriers in the United States by 2011, and the first carrier to get the iPhone after AT&T exclusivity ends is likely to be T-Mobile. The Kaufman Bros analyst based his assessment on discussions with sources in Apple's product supply chain and others, according to the Associated Press .

T-Mobile is the smallest of the four major U.S. carriers and offers a variety of smartphones including Android devices like the myTouch 3G, Samsung Behold II, and Motorola Cliq XT. Apple's iPhone is also no stranger to T-Mobile since the International wing of the company carries the iPhone in a variety of European countries including Austria, Croatia, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Like AT&T, T-Mobile USA is a GSM-based network, making it a relatively simple adjustment to produce iPhones for the smaller carrier's network. Verizon and Sprint, on the other hand, are CDMA-based networks and incompatible with the current version of the iPhone.

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