Apple Tablet Supported By Multiple Carriers, Including Verizon?

The Apple Tablet will be supported by multiple mobile carriers including Verizon Wireless, according to a ComputerWorld report.

The article notes that Brian Marshall of Broadpoint AmTech has learned from unnamed sources close to the situation that "the tablet will be supported by multiple [mobile] carriers." "Verizon and others," he said. "Definitely Verizon. I've been told that's a certainty."

"The tablet will connect to 3G," said Marshall, "not just wireless [hotspots]."


"It will be an e-reader, that's certain. Amazon sold two million Kindles in the second half of last year," he said. "Clearly, the market is much larger than what I expected. So Apple's tablet will be an e-reader, but also a TV viewer and more. For Apple, content is the focus of the tablet."

Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research said, "If the time window is as short as [the Wall Street Journal] says, then Apple has to have something to deliver already in the chute. It's likely that a few key developers are prepared to have something ready by March, but only a few. Apple wouldn't talk to more than that for fear of details leaking."

Gottheil believes that deals with book, magazine and newspaper publishers; movie studios; and television networks are already signed. "Apple will have had to make a lot of deals with content providers by now if it is launching in March," he said.

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