UAE iPhone Provider Confirms 4G LTE iPhone 5

June 11th, 2011 · 12 notes · #united #arab #emirates #iphone #4 #5 #3g #3g #lte #verizon #at&t

A telecom company by the name of “etisalat” might be in some trouble with Apple after the Chief Corporate Communication Officer claimed they were in talks to carry Apple’s next iPhone. Gulf News, who first broke the story, says that etisalat has been developing their 4G LTE network over the past year, much like Verizon has in the United States. 

“Yes, we are in talks with most smartphone manufacturers including Apple on the rollout of the 4G handset, iPhone 5 later this year,” Ali Al Ahmad, the CCCO of etisalat said. “As the first telecom organisation to roll out the 4G network, LTE, in the Middle East, we have already started talking to them for the handsets and chipsets in them.” 

People who commented on Gulf News’ story claim that the etisalat executive has iOS5 and the rumored iPhone 5 confused. 

In fact, most of the commenters on the story were confused themselves. One man appears to have the story right.”For everyone’s information, iOS 5 will be available for download only in fall of 2011, around September, not July,” Erman of Dubai says. “The ‘iPhone 5’ or ‘iPhone 4S’ will be released by Apple only after September in a special event, which Apple usually does every year. Worst case scenario, January, like Apple did with the iPad.”