# Verizon Wireless Going with GSM-UMTS Successor for 4G Wirless

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**Created:** [September 21, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/verizon-wireless-going-with-gsm-umts-successor-for-4g-wirless/35750 "2007-09-21T10:20:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/verizon-wireless-going-with-gsm-umts-successor-for-4g-wirless/35750/11 "2007-09-21T11:55:59Z")

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[quote=“Onyx Z32,post:10,topic:35750"”]

…just maybe Verizon customers would have been the first to get Apple’s iPhone? :ohnoes:.

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Well, you are not entirely correct, Jobs pitched it to Verizon first and they said, “No thanks”…

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