Apple Inc. plans to begin
producing this year a new iPhone that could allow U.S. phone carriers
other than AT&T Inc. to sell the
iconic gadget, said people briefed by the company.
The new iPhone would work
on a type of wireless network called CDMA, these people said. CDMA is
used by Verizon Wireless, AT&T's main competitor, as well as Sprint
Nextel Corp. and a handful of cellular operators in countries including
South Korea and Japan. The vast majority of carriers world-wide,
including AT&T, use another technology called GSM
