In the States, Verizon Wireless, a company formed as a joint venture between American broadband and telecommunications company, Verizon Communications, and British mobile network operators, Vodafone Group, simply will not shut up about the fact that they want the Palm Pre, which rival network, Sprint Nextel, has procured exclusivity to for an undisclosed amount of time.
Yesterday was no different. During a conference call with analysts and investors discussing the company’s second-quarter earnings, which are down a bit by the way, the company’s chief operating officer, Denny Strigl, insisted the Palm Pre would land on their network early next year.
We’ve heard this before and frankly, the shtick is getting old. Given that Verizon and Sprint use the same CDMA and EVDO technology in their networks, it doesn’t take a genius to deduce that the Pre could eventually land in Verizon’s suffocating hands but Verizon has repeatedly stated this and provided no proof to back it up, prompting Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse to state during an interview at a Palm Pre launch event, “They need to check their facts. Both Palm and Sprint have agreed not to discuss the length of the exclusivity deal. But I can tell you it’s not six months.”
We understand Verizon is more than a little anxious for a great phone. They have a very solid network and the most subscribers of any American wireless service provider but when it comes to phones, in comparison to their network rivals, they are lagging. T-Mobile USA still exclusively holds the only two Android phones available in the American market. AT&T has some time left with Apple on their iPhone exclusivity deal, and Sprint was the first network with a webOS device with their exclusive, the Palm Pre. Sure, Verizon has a deal inked with Blackberry makers, Research in Motion, for the Blackberry Storm but to call that phone “troublesome” would be an understatement.
Okay, we get it. You want the phone and you need the phone but do we really need to keep hearing about this back and forth with no proof? Enough.
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