Gold also said he presumed that Apple would want to make the tablet work on Verizon's network just to "get as far away" from AT&T, which has held the exclusive on the iPhone and has been drubbed by iPhone .

From a technology standpoint, it wouldn't be hard for the tablet to support both networks. Doing so would require the device to have radio chipsets for both a GSM network, which AT&T uses, and a CDMA network, which Verizon uses.

Of course, that doesn't mean two separate radios are needed inside each tablet, since Qualcomm Inc. makes the Mobi chipset, which combines both GSM and CDMA, Gold said.

Having two separate radios in one device could raise the cost by $30 to $50, something Apple would likely avoid even if the new tablet costs more than $500, he said.

Gold said it seemed unlikely that Apple would have two separate tablet models, one for CDMA and the other for GSM, but he noted that many phone manufacturers do so.