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08:29 AAPL Apple: Rogers casts doubts on iPhone for Canada - AppleInsider (94.27 )

AppleInsider reports Rogers Wireless, the only wireless service provider in Canada with a network suited to meld with Apple's upcoming iPhone handset, is now dismissing the notion that it would sell the device as "speculation." "We haven't announced whether we will carry the iPhone," Odette Coleman, manager of corporate communications for Rogers Wireless, said in an e-mail to CBC News Online.

The statement strongly contradicts an e-mail sent out by Rogers to subscribers following the unveiling of iPhone back in Jan. In that communication, the carrier reportedly said that it was working with Apple to launch the device in Canada "as soon as possible."

Since iPhone operates on the GSM wireless technology standard, Rogers would be the only carrier in Canada suited to offer the device to its customers, as all other providers in the country use the CDMA standard.