iPhone 5 with No LTE Spells Bloodbath for Apple in 2012, Says Swedish Carrier

Tommy Ljunggren, senior vice president of wireless operator TeliaSonera, has shared some interesting thoughts with the people at Telecoms.com about Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5, mainly about the 4G/LTE wireless standard that Cupertino hasn’t embraced yet.

The Swedish executive told the publication “If you asked me two years ago I would have said Apple would be very important.”

“But now it will be a bad mistake not to include LTE in the iPhone 5 as otherwise they will really be run over by the others. Apple are not unique enough and there is disappointment over the 4S – it was too small step for them.”

Ljunggren would better hope Apple even looks their way next year. These words may have hurt the operator’s chances of getting a contract signed on carrying the fifth-generation model.