it is based 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 in this department, with the latter expecting it will take a year or two to catch up to Verizons LTE deployment. Verizon has been showing off data speeds that have topped 10 to 15 Mbps in LTE-covered areas, proving that the technology truly does bring in much faster speeds than current 3G networks. Not to be topped in the speed department, AT&T recently demoed its LTE offering and touted speeds of nearly 30 Mbps downstream and over 10 Mbps on the upstream.