This isn't happening for the exact same reasons it's never been happening: 1. Newspapers and bloggers love this story. It generates clicks. 2. People want an

This isn't happening for the exact same reasons it's never been happening: 1. Newspapers and bloggers love this story. It generates clicks. 2. People want an iPhone on other networks. This makes them want to believe this in spite of the evidence. 3. CDMA doesn't do simultaneous voice and data. Apple is unlikely to try and explain such a difference to consumers given their focus on user experience. 4. CDMA is a dead/dying technology. Jobs summed this up In his D8 interview (when talking about Flash): Apple picks technologies in their "Spring". CDMA will be phased out in favor of LTE. 5. Most of the world uses GSM. The market for CDMA is small. People in the US forget this because of Verizon. 6. Apple tests far more products than they release. I'm sure there has been a CDMA iPhone. That doesn't mean it will be launched as a product. 7. AT&T had a five year exclusivity deal with the iPhone starting in 2007 according to court documents. While this may have changed it seems unlikely that AT&T would give this up without getting something huge in return. The only possibility realistically us that AT&T has failed to meet it's contractual requirements somehow. 8. AT&T service apparently sucks in SF and NYC, where most tech journalists and bloggers are. They are fine in most of the rest of the country. But this creates a huge sample bias in the press. If Apple does a CDMA anything it will, in my opinion, be an iPad.