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Apple may deny iPhone 8 owners new gigabit data speeds due to Qualcomm dispute -Bloomberg

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/iphone-8-7-7plus.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1000&h=500)</div><p>iPhone 8 owners may not be able to take advantage of the faster data speeds expected to be available later this year in the USA, says a Bloomberg report, and Apple’s dispute with <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/qualcomm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Qualcomm[/url] may be the reason.</p>
<p>AT&amp;T, Sprint, Verizon and other carriers have promised to introduce a new generation of wireless data later in the year, offering speeds as high as a gigabit per second – some fifty times faster than typically available today. But it appears that this speed won’t be supported in the iPhone 8, even if the modems it contains are compatible …</p>
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