Verizon is still a no go for me even if they had unlimited. No 4G in Pahrump or Visalia from them. at&t and sprint both serve Visalia, and only 3G in Pahrump. I hate living in a small, middle of nowhere town.
That's true about iPhone users. I knew someone who still had an original iPhone on at&t until last year when they finally got rid of it and got an iPhone 4 on Verizon.
Apple has shown since the intel transition that release times for their laptops and desktops do not sit on a set schedule. Once a year release for iDevices are the same in a way. Matching month for month just won't happen all the time. It'll be released soon enough. From what I have read, that will be around the 7th of March.