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Home > Phones Former Apple Engineers Say It Can't Figure Out How to Make a Cellular Modem The company has been banging away at this project for many years with little to show for it.

News of Apple's modem saga comes from The Wall Street Journal (via 9to5Mac), which talked to former employees who worked on the project.