Sprint iPhone 5 could reportedly get unlimited data

AT&T has sold the Apple iPhone since its debut in 2007, and Verizon has sold the iPhone 4 since February.

Now, as rumor has it, Sprint too could start selling Apple's coveted iPhone with the release of the iPhone 5.

But what could Sprint, the nation's third-largest carrier behind AT&T and Verizon, do to make its iPhone 5 stand out from Verizon's and AT&T's iPhone 5 -- and maybe sell a large number of the fruit phones?

All-you-can-eat, unlimited data, according to a Bloomberg news report.

Sprint "plans to begin selling the device in mid-October under a deal with Apple for the next model, the iPhone 5," Bloomberg said, quoting souces who wouldn't be identified because the plans aren't public.  "Becoming the country's only operator to offer the device with unlimited data service for a flat fee may help Sprint draw customers from AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which already carry the phone, they said."

AT&T used to offer unlimited data but killed off its unlimited plans in 2010. Verizon scrapped its unlimited data plans in July.

Sprint is the only carrier that still offers a truly unlimited "talk, text, Web" data plan -- at a cost of $79.99 a month.

T-Mobile offers 500 minutes, unlimited text and unlimited Web data for $79.99 a month, but slows down data speeds once a subscriber consumes more than 2 gigabytes of data in one month.

Of course, all of this is still all speculation.

Apple still hasn't unveiled its fifth-generation iPhone, and we don't have a solid idea of what it looks like, what its official name will be, when it will hit stores, what its specs will be or even if Sprint will actually carry the phone or not. However, Germany's Deutsche Telekom is already taking pre-orders for the unseen iPhone 5.

For its part, Sprint has instructed its employees not to comment on the iPhone 5 rumors.

What do you think? Is this all just a bunch of online hype? For AT&T and Verizon customers, if Sprint did land the iPhone 5 and offered unlimited data, would you jump ship to Sprint? Sound off in the comments?

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Photo: Two iPhone fans compare the Apple iPhone 4 and a first-generation Apple iPhone in front of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Apple store after the release of the iPhone 4 on June 24, 2010. Credit: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images

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Sprint says AT&T merger would result in big job losses

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from the L.A. TimesSprint says AT&T merger would result in big job lossesSeptember 1, 2011 |  4:51pm

A day after the Justice Department sued to block AT&T's $39 billion merger with T-Mobile, an industry catfight raged on over whether the merger would add thousands of jobs to the U.S. economy or subtract them.

From AT&T's perspective, the merger would create 96,000 jobs, many resulting from new investments in building its wireless network out to largely rural areas. If you don't believe AT&T, you can ask its main employee union, the Communications Workers of America, which commissioned a study that came to that favorable conclusion.

But now Sprint Nextel Corp. -- a major opponent of the merger --  is touting its own study that concludes the opposite. Not only will the merger fail to create those new jobs, it says, but it could also destroy many old ones -- as many as 60,000 of them, if some of its assumptions about AT&T's plans are correct. 

"The merger may or may not have other benefits that have to be weighed against its potential costs," writes David Neumark, the director of the Center for Economics & Public Policy at UC Irvine and an author of the Sprint-commissioned study. 

"But there is no basis for claiming that job creation is one of these benefits, and the direct effect of the merger is far more likely to be many thousands of lost jobs."

Neumark argued that merging with T-Mobile and assuming control of its thousands of cellular towers, would allow AT&T to reduce the amount of money it would spend building its own towers. AT&T has said the merger would allow it to save more than $10 billion in "avoided purchases and investments." That, Neumark argues, equals jobs that will go away.

AT&T and CWA, its union, immediately dismissed Neumark's research, with  AT&T spokesperson Claudia Jones calling it "a woefully flawed study with no factual underpinnings."  

AT&T has said in the past that it believes the merger would lead to an overall increase in jobs, but it has remained vague on where those positions would come from. Some would result from the new network's "job-creating ripple effects," the company told lawmakers in July. That could mean activity in rural areas where people can use the new wireless network to "enhance education and business-creation opportunities."

On Wednesday, the Justice Department said blocking the merger would "help protect jobs" by guarding the competitiveness of the wireless industry.

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Sprint backs government suit to block AT&T takeover of T-Mobile

Sprint has been among the most vocal opponents of AT&T's proposed $39-billion takeover of T-Mobile USA pretty much since the deal was announced.

On Wednesday, the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. unsurprisingly came out in support of the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit that is looking to block AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile from Germany's Deutsche Telekom.

"The DOJ today delivered a decisive victory for consumers, competition and our country," Vonya B. McCann, senior vice president of government affairs for Sprint, said in a statement. "By filing suit to block AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile, the DOJ has put consumers' interests first. Sprint applauds the DOJ for conducting a careful and thorough review and for reaching a just decision -- one which will ensure that consumers continue to reap the benefits of a competitive U.S. wireless industry. Contrary to AT&T's assertions, today's action will preserve American jobs, strengthen the American economy, and encourage innovation."

In March, shortly after AT&T announced that it had agreed to buy T-Mobile, Sprint formally objected to the deal. In May, Sprint asked the FCC to block the transaction, arguing that it would result in a less competitive wireless market -- one where a combined AT&T and T-Mobile would dwarf the rest of the industry.

Currently, the big four of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile control about 90% of the U.S. wireless market.

For its part, AT&T says it believes its takeover of T-Mobile would create jobs in the U.S. and allow it to meet consumer demand faster than if it proceeded on its own. AT&T said it was surprised by the Justice Department suit.

In the suit, the government contends that combining AT&T, the nation's second largest carrier, a and T-Mobile, the fourth largest carrier, would result in not only less competition among wireless carriers, but also increased prices, poor-quality services and fewer innovative products being developed.

The suit also expressed concern that as many as 20,000 jobs would be lost if AT&T consumed T-Mobile due to the redundancies in the two companies' operations and staff.

AT&T has said it will fight the Justice Department suit in court.

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