Found this PC Magazine news item via the MacRumors site.

T-Mobile Talks Up 3G Network—and Apple?

The article reports Dotson singled out Apple’s efforts on the desktop as a “great precursor of where I think the marketplace is headed in 3G,” leading to speculation that T-Mobile, not Cingular, will host Apple’s much-rumored iPhone project.

Yet, it also says that Dotson focused on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and not the iPod.  So, maybe Apple is going with T-Mobile instead of Cingular? Why? Although Cingular has the largest US mobile footprint, T-Mobile has a larger worldwide footprint.