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thank you could you both of you address how many you think how many of these CDMA iPhones that you could manufacture in the first quarter and in the first year of availability that's probably more question for me you know I'm not going to get into our our forecast but because we tend to be a company that does something and then reports what we've done instead of instead of predicting however we are incredibly excited to bring the iPhone experience to Verizon's ninety-three million customers and all the new customers that will want to use an iPhone 4 and Verizon and I think it's fair to say that that both of us think there's tremendous opportunity and you know no one more than us wants to give Verizon customers the choice they've been waiting for is the CD amia iPhone going to be on a one-year upgrade cycle or will it be refreshed in the summer like if they're at the gsm iphones you know we have a long-standing practice of never commenting on our new product roadmaps for all of you that focus on Apple I'm sure you knew I was going to say that and I guess some people are slightly surprised that this isn't a 4G LTE iPhone why did you decide to go the CDMA route and not lt8 two key reasons one the first generation LTE chipsets forced some design compromises some of which we would not make and secondly and most importantly Verizon customers have told us they want the iPhone now you know if if I could if I can't tell you the number of times that I've been as to my colleagues have been asked over this incredible success run of iPhone the the most popular question has been with will the iPhone work on the verizon network and we wanted to provide people that choice now so let me just add and conclude the answer to that question from our perspective we have a very robust idea and collaboration we've been working at this for some time as you've already heard in the course of this conference we have a tremendous network in our 3G network the best in the country and we want to make sure that customers can take advantage of that with this partnership so as we look at our roadmaps together this was the right thing to do at the right time for customers throughout the industry CDMA iPhone going to be exclusive to the Verizon platform the agreement that Dan and Lowell I have Apple has is a multi-year so it's very strategic its non-exclusive but beyond that we're not commenting on the terms of the agreement just a quick question looking at the picture you have up here it looks like there's some differences in the antenna and I'm just wondering what changes had to be made if any to the antenna and I know there was some you know a little controversy but I'm just wondering if you've done anything obviously it's a different CDMA so you've got some differences there but just like to know from a techno technology perspective what if any changes had to be made to the obviously has to be optimized to work on the cdma/evdo network and it's going to do a great job of that yeah let me echo those comments as I said in my opening we have been going through very robust testing for a long period of time and we feel extremely confident we don't see any issues there and we know that the collaboration between Apple and Verizon Wireless is going to be an outstanding customer experience so we do not see that as an issue we were wondering and we have a lot of readers who are wondering what happens when you're using your data connection and you get a phone call yeah so it's let me handle that one so it's consistent with other other CDMA devices and you know we continue to improve the whole CDMA infrastructure but it's it's the same experience that you get on CDMA devices now first is there an extra charge for the tethering and secondly apart from the ability to make voice calls are there any capabilities or features in this version that don't exist in the GSM WCDMA version okay let me let me cover the first one so we talked about the device pricing what we didn't talk about and we're not going to talk about today are the pricing for the for the network connect connectivity but we'll be having announcements coming on pricing in the future but not today the answer your second question there is an additional feature in this iPhone 4 and that's the personal hotspot which can connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices I'm just curious when we'll be able to see an LTE enabled iPhone and will there be any data caps or limitations like AT&T currently has I'll take the first part of the question and Dan can to the second the first part of the question is we're not going to comment on any unannounced product and I think all the Apple press here will tell you that's a fairly common answer and I'm going to stick with my answer just a couple of minutes ago we're not commenting on any pricing or pricing strategy changes today but let let me say this is that that we are going to have a very strong offer to attract customers to our network on the right devices and to drive the right mix in our business and more to come on that in the future you mentioned the merchandising aspect is this going to be available in any of Verizon's indirect sales channels and is there a timeframe for that yes it is going to be available in indirect sales channels not exactly at launch I I said it I I went through it pretty quickly set it in my opening comments but we are this is going to be available in certain of our key distribution partners you know we're not announcing a date today but it will be a matter of weeks where we'll have broader availability after the launch experience is so experiment at Apple in the iPhone with AT&T currently allows that GSM constant data constant voice connection can you just describe what is the experience difference of being on a voice call and then attempting to access data such as a web how does that feel on an experience level using CDMA technology you know I think I think people place emphases on different things and I can tell you that as I said before the the number one question I've gotten despite selling tens of millions of iPhones and having customers download billions of apps is when will the iPhone work on the verizon network and I could not be happier to sit here today until all of those 93 million people and all the people that want to join Verizon that we're delivering it to them and I think they will they will make those sorts of trade-offs so I would just conclude with this and this will then end our Q&A I'm very pleased with our partnership and being able to offer this to our 93 million customers and I'm especially pleased to be able to offer it to the 300 million people in the United States you