iPhone 5 with LTE can be seen in 2011

Etisalat announces that they're in discussions with Cupertino to carry the company’s fifth-generation iPhone handset later in 2011.

Ali Al Ahmad, the Chief corporate Communications Officer for Etisalat, a mobile carrier based mostly in the United Arab Emirates, recently gave truth to rumors that the corporate would be carrying Apple’s iPhone 5 someday this year. Ahmad was quoted as saying “We are in talks with most smartphone makers together with Apple on the rollout of the 4G handset, iPhone 5 later this year. because the first telecom organization to roll out the 4G network, LTE, in the Middle East, we've got already started talking to them for the handsets and chipsets in them.”

While it’s true that Etisalat is currently deploying its next-generation LTE network throughout the country, Apple has yet to even confirm the existence of the iPhone 5, plus its launch date or whether or not or not it will support LTE technology. Speculation by journalists and analysts alike indicate that Apple will hold off on launching an iPhone handset that supports LTE till someday in 2012, with any handset that launches in 2011 to possible be an updated version of the company’s iPhone four, which is still producing unimaginable sales figures.

As it is predicated in the US, Apple typically would look to US-based carriers to usher in an iPhone that supports faster network speeds like LTE. Verizon is currently besting AT&T during this department, with the latter expecting it will take a year or two to catch up to Verizon’s LTE deployment. Verizon has been showing off information speeds that have topped 10 to 15 Mbps in LTE-covered areas, proving that the technology truly will bring in much faster speeds than current 3G networks. not to be topped in the speed department, AT&T recently demoed its LTE giving and touted speeds of nearly thirty Mbps downstream and over 10 Mbps on the upstream.

It truly has been a race amongst the carriers to get 4G information hurries up and running for his or her customers. All of the wireless carriers are battling to secure the wireless frequencies and intellectual property necessary to roll out LTE across the state. Recently, Canadian manufacturer Nortel announced that variety of its patents had implications in the 4G market, and the US Department of Justice expressed that it had some concerns over Apple’s interest in these and alternative patents. All of this is often happening while AT&T is working to shut its deal to get T-Mobile for nearly $40 billion, claiming that the acquisition is necessary to secure the necessary wireless frequencies and bandwidth to support their national 4G LTE push.

In regards to Apple’s next handset – called the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S counting on whom you believe – speculation continues to run rampant that the phone will launch someday in September or October once this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference passed while not Apple showing off any new hardware. Analysts largely expect that the phone will offer an updated camera, presumably a faster processor and perhaps a larger display.

Apple failed to treat the remarks made by Ahmed or Etisalat, nor has it given any indication when the handset are going to be returning.