By JENNA WORTHAM
c.2011 New York Times News Service
Ending months of speculation, Verizon announced Tuesday that it would begin selling a version of the iPhone 4 early next month.
“Today, two industry innovators are coming together to deliver something consumers have been hungry for for years,” said Lowell McAdam, the president and chief operating officer of Verizon, at a news conference in Manhattan. “We are bringing to market the fruit of our strategic partnership with a giant in the market, and that is Apple.”
Apple had to create a new version of the iPhone 4 for Verizon because its network uses a technology known as CDMA, as opposed to the GSM technology used in all existing iPhones.