Steve Jobs Wanted iPhone on Its Own Network, Carrier-Free

Release Date 16 Nov, 2011 in Wired News

	Steve Jobs Wanted iPhone on Its Own Network, Carrier-Free Wired News - 16 Nov, 2011 When Steve Jobs first dreamed up the iPhone with his team at Apple, he didn't want it to run on AT&T's network. He wanted to create his own network. So says Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Stanton, who spent a good deal ...
Steve Jobs Toyed With Idea Of Building His Own Wireless Carrier Forbes - 16 Nov, 2011 Before the launch of the iPhone in 2007, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs toyed with the idea of launching a carrier using the open spectrum now used chiefly by WiFi wireless networking devices, John Stanton, chairman of venture capital firm Trilogy ...
Steve Jobs Wanted To Bypass The Phone Companies Entirely (AAPL) San Francisco Chronicle - 16 Nov, 2011 Back when Apple started planning the first iPhone in 2005, Steve Jobs wanted to bypass wireless carriers completely and build a phone that would let users place calls over Wi-Fi networks. That's what cell phone industry vet John Stanton told a crowd in ...
	Steve Jobs wanted to 'replace' carriers using Wi-Fi spectrum CNET - 16 Nov, 2011 Apple might have launched the iPhone without the help of carriers if Steve Jobs & Co. had found a wireless workaround. IDG today reported that Jobs apparently spent the better part of two ...
Stanton: Jobs Wanted Own Network With Unlicensed Spectrum PCWorld - 16 Nov, 2011 Steve Jobs initially hoped to create his own network with the unlicensed spectrum that Wi-Fi uses rather than work with the mobile operators, said wireless industry legend John Stanton. Stanton, currently chairman at venture ...
	Steve Jobs wanted Wi-Fi to replace networks CNET UK - 16 Nov, 2011 In Walter Isaacson's biography, Steve Jobs comes across as a bit of a control freak. But this is on another level: he actually wanted to create his own Wi-Fi network to replace the mobile networks, ...
	Jobs wanted own network for iPhone PCR-online.biz - 16 Nov, 2011 Late Apple co-founder wanted an iPhone exclusive network based on Wi-Fi spectrum, according to a former business partner. Speaking at a Law seminar in Seattle, wireless industry figure John Stanton said that Steve Jobs was keen to ...
Jobs: Screw The Telcos, Lets Go Wi-Fi Smart Office - 16 Nov, 2011 That is exactly what Steve Jobs wanted to do as part of his Apple iPhone grand plan. Jobs had an (arguably) hair brained scheme to bypass carriers and redirect iPhone communications over WiFi network on a new ...
	A pity Jobs didn't get his wish TECH.BLORGE.com - 16 Nov, 2011 Once upon a time, Apple cofounder and erstwhile CEO Steve Jobs considered building his own wireless network, using unlicensed wifi spectrum, rather than pairing up with one of the existing carriers. Obviously that didn't come about, ...
Steve Jobs wanted to remove carriers from the iPhone equation. Why the surprise? allvoices - 16 Nov, 2011 By Iria0000 This really shouldn't come as a surprise, as Steve Jobs famously was disdainful of wireless carriers, but here it is anyway: the late Steve Jobs dreamed of replacing wireless carriers with Apple's own network, using the unlicensed spectrum ...
	Jobs Had Envisioned an Apple Cellular Network to Host iPhone Gotta Be Mobile - 16 Nov, 2011 Before the iPhone had launched, late Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs had initially pondered the possibility of creating a unique Apple network on which the company's flagship smartphone would operate on. Unlike traditional cellular networks�"like the ones ...
The Apple Cellular Network Once a Possibility HalfPeeledApple - 16 Nov, 2011 Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Orange, Rodgers �" some of the popular cellular networks around the word. Now, what happens if we add “Apple” to that list? John Stanton, chairman of Trilogy Partnership, has made comments on a possible ...
Steve Jobs wanted to replace carriers with an Apple network The Loop - 16 Nov, 2011 Stanton, chairman of venture capital firm Trilogy Partners, said he spent a fair amount of time with Jobs between 2005 and 2007. “He wanted to replace carriers,” Stanton said of Jobs, the Apple founder and CEO who died Oct. 5 after a battle with cancer ...
Steve Jobs Pondered Creation Of An Apple-Only Mobile Phone Network paidContent.org - 16 Nov, 2011 Steve Jobs, wireless network operator? Apple's co-founder talked to industry legend John Stanton from 2005 through 2007 about the possibility of setting up a wireless network that would use unlicensed spectrum, according to remarks Stanton made at a ...
Steve Jobs wanted to circumvent carriers, create Apple's wireless own network BGR - 16 Nov, 2011 During the Law Seminars International event in Seattle on Tuesday, Trilogy Partners chairman John Stanton said he spoke frequently with Steve Jobs about Jobs's dream to create a wireless network owned and operated by Apple. ...
Steve Jobs wanted Apple to build own cell network for first iPhone Apple Insider - 16 Nov, 2011 Before launching the first iPhone, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted to replace established mobile carriers by creating a proprietary network specifically for the handset by leveraging an unused license-free spectrum band. ...
Steve Jobs wanted to build a wireless carrier, but gave up The Next Web (blog) - 16 Nov, 2011 Steve Jobs spoke to wireless industry veteran and venture capital firm Trilogy Chairman John Stanton at length about creating a brand new network based on unused WiFi spectrum, reports Nancy Gohring for Computerworld. Apparently Jobs wanted to 'replace ...
Before The iPhone, Steve Jobs Wanted To Turn Apple Into A Carrier And Destroy At&T Cult of Mac - 16 Nov, 2011 Steve Jobs's legacy on the mobile industry is uncontested, but instead of just changing the balance of power between handset makers and the carriers, Jobs's original vision was even more revolutionary: he wanted ...
Steve Jobs wanted iPhone on its own network, carrier-free Ars Technica - 16 Nov, 2011 When Steve Jobs first dreamed up the iPhone with his team at Apple, he didn't want it to run on AT&T's network. He wanted to create his own network. So says Silicon Valley venture ...