It's been widely reported that Sprint will not only guarantee to buy 30.5 million iPhones and pay Apple $20 billion over the next four years, it will also get an exclusive period of time to sell the iPhone 5. No way, dude.
I've had a couple of hours to ponder over this. This is what I think is likely if any whiff of this is true. Sprint will likely get a specially modified iPhone 5 that runs on its WiMax network. Nothing more, nothing less.
And having this WiMax iPhone will give Sprint a quarter or two lead on any LTE iPhone that could be coming out in 2012. It's possible that Apple can try to get folks to fork over more money in the first quarter of 2012 for those who want LTE access.
This would grant Sprint a small window all to itself to market a "true" 4G wireless experience.
So, relax, iPhone fans iPhone 5 for all tomorrow, assuming there is such a device.
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