iPhone News Updated

Telus to start selling Apple iPhone in Canada on November 5

“Telus Corp., Canada’s second largest telecom carrier, has officially announced the launch date and pricing of Apple’s iPhone (3G and 3GS). The company will commence selling the highly popular device on Nov 5, 2009. Moreover, Telus will also unveil its new HSPA (high speed packet access) based 3G wireless networks on the same day to support the iPhone launch,” Zacks Equity Research reports via Yahoo Finance.

“Telus will sell iPhone 3G (8GB) for $99.99 [CDN] with a 3-year contract and for $599.99 without any contract. The company has priced iPhone 3GS (16 GB) at $199.99 with a 3-year contract and $699.99 without contract. The 32 GB version of iPhone 3GS will be sold for $299.99 (with contract) and $799.99 (without contract),” Zacks reports.
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Verizon wants the iPhone, but does Apple want Verizon?

Verizon Communications Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg finally put aside the company’s long-standing coyness about when it might entertain an iPhone on its network. He told analysts during the company’s third-quarter conference call this week that the company would be happy to have the iPhone, but that the decision “is exclusively in Apple’s court.”

“We would obviously be interested at any point if they thought of us as a partner,” he said of Apple.

Verizon added about 1.2 million new subscribers in the third quarter, while rival AT&T, the exclusive operator of the iPhone, saw 2 million new subscribers. Seidenberg, however, emphasized that the company’s strategy has always been around a broad range of products. Today, the company introduced the Motorola DROID, which is based on Google’s Android platform. It will also carry the new BlackBerry Storm2. Interestingly, Verizon is heavily pitting the DROID against the iPhone.
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