Verizon, Apple partner to swap out corporate-owned phones for 5G iPhones

Apple Inc and VerizonCommunications on Thursday announced a program in which Verizon will subsidize the replacement of corporate customers’ entire fleet of smartphones with any of Apple’s iPhone 12 models.Verizon Business, the corporate-focused arm of Verizon running the program, and Apple did not provide financial details of the arrangement, which applies to Apple’s first family of phones with 5G networking capabilities.

The companies said the “Fleet Swap” program can be used to replace a business’ corporate-owned devices from Verizon or other carriers at “zero upfront cost, with zero to low cost per month.” Unlike previous generations of networks, 5G networks come in different varieties, including a kind known as millimeter wave that can be used to provide coverage inside buildings such as corporate campuses or factories that are difficult to address with other technologies such as WiFi.