Well, the news is out that both Verizon and Sprint will be including WiFi on future phones. Sprint is saying that they will have a new version of the BlackBerry Tour 9630 with WiFi available after the first of the year(with no specific date set) and Verizon has no comment on a WiFi Tour but they say they are working with Research In Motion to provide WiFi capable BlackBerries in the future.
Now, in my opinion this is something which should have occurred ages ago. GSM providers have had WiFi available widely throughout their product lines for quite a while now, and the lack of WiFi on CDMA carriers has been(at least among some people I know) a complete no-go on their services.
I’ve heard many reasons for the lack of WiFi in CDMA phones, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard what I would call a real explanation. With AT&T’s recent acquisition of Waypoint they have increased their national WiFi network to over 20,000 hotspots. I guess Verizon & Sprint figure they have to try and catch them somehow. I’m betting that once more Verizon phones have WiFi in them we will probably start seeing Verizon hotspots popping up all over the place. I don’t know that we’ll be seeing that sort of large scale hotspot opening from Sprint(as they do not have a huge consumer and business land-line and internet service network like Verizon and AT&T) but it wouldn’t really surprise me to see something coming from them.
All in all this news makes me very happy. It’s great to see something I’ve wanted for so long finally showing and I can’t wait to see how this effects things in the future.
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