An Apple a Day: Verizon works to seal deal with Apple

Jacksonville - The iPhone has been one of Apple’s most popular products, garnering huge sales and jump starting the lucrative and innovative App Store. However, Apple seems to be looking to expand its market and increasing its profits by considering a deal with the cell phone network provider Verizon.

So far, the iPhone has been offered exclusively through AT&T, a contract that extend through 2010. While this new deal would make the iPhone available to the 80 million people who use the Verizon network, it would also require some technological support since the Verizon network is a code division multiple access (CDMA), a network style which varies greatly from the one AT&T currently uses.

Though this would be the first time users in the United States would have access to the iPhone through the Verizon network, Apple has found great success with the iPhone overseas with the Verizon owned Vodaphone. According to recent reports, the deal is already in high level discussions and, if everything goes smoothly, the iPhone could be available on Verizon as early as next year, when the exclusive contract with AT&T expires.

Other sources report that AT&T is not sitting idle through this process and has been lobbying to extend its contract with Apple for at least another year in order to retain its valuable piece of the market. Many users, however, are hopeful for the deal with Verizon since many complaints in regards to the iPhone have come in relation to the AT&T network that carries it.