This month Fortune cover shows an iPhone and referring to launch of Verizon iPhone as “get ready for the dream phone”. People familiar with the case speculate Verizon will launch iPhone in early 2011. Lots of US mobile phone users were praying for this news for years. As the largest US mobile operator; by number of subscriber, Verizon was always preferred choice for consumers as the ‘more reliable” service provider. Its CDMA based 2G network, better coverage and call quality in general in the first part of this decade made it preferred choice for voice users. For the past couple of years, smartphones start to challenge data network capacity. While early 2000 was the hype of wireless data networks deployment, there was no real data traffic until couple of years ago. Operator’s huge investment on mobile data upgrade was sitting idle for years before iPhone shows the art of smartphone development to other vendors and flooding the market with its clones. ATT launch of iPhone in 2007 was smooth until the huge amount of data traffic starts to cripple its network in dense markets, including New York and San Francisco. ATT executives claims the dream of a better iPhone experience on Verizon network will shattered as soon as operator stats to sell and distribute iPhone across its networks. Although Driod and other Andriod based phones were very popular, their popularity and traffic load would not be even close to after iPhone launch. This points to another question; if Verizon starts to sell iPhone, does Andriod based phones continue to growth (at least in the US)? Lots of Verizon geeky data users were forced to buy Android phones because they didn’t have other choices. By introducing iPhone, Verizon introduces a real competitor for its Andriod phones.
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