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T-Mobile CEO is saying that Apple’s next iPhone will surely use a chip that supports the AWS spectrum band that used by the network. With the launch of the iPhone 4S, T-Mobile USA is now the only one of four major U.S. carriers to not offer the iPhone, due in large part to the carrier’s use of the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum band for its 3G network, a situation that so far would require Apple to develop specific hardware compatible with the network.  Details after this jump!

According to the AllThingsD reports, that CEO Phillip Humm claims the reason, T-Mobile hasn’t been given the oppurtunity to carry the iPhone becuase it is on a different band than the rest of the other carriers in the market. T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm again acknowledging that the AWS issue is an important reason for the carrier’s lack of the iPhone, but reporting that the issue will be addressed both by migration of T-Mobile’s spectrum bands and by new chipsets supporting AWS.

“The key reason we didn’t have the iPhone in the past is we are on different band than globally the market was,” Humm said. “That is something which will change over time. Chipsets are also evolving to be able to allow for more bands.”

As always, though, the decision is up to Apple, Humm acknowledges and also said by Neville Ray, Chief Technology Officer of T-Mobile, that problem will go away with the next iPhone.

CNET has got more topic from T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray, who specifically claims that Apple’s plans for the next iPhone chipset include support for AWS.

Ray, however, said T-Mobile’s unique spectrum would have required extra work to ensure the iPhone ran correctly on its network. But the next chipset that Apple plans to use will be able to overcome that hurdle, he said.

“The next chipset will support AWS,” he said in an interview with CNET. “The challenge that existed in the past will go away.”

Ray claims he has seen the roadmap of chipsets that Apple plans to use, and knows it has that capability. But he noted Apple could choose to ignore that capability and not strike a deal with T-Mobile.

While iPhone owners have unlocked their devices to use their devices with T-Mobile are currently stuck with slow data speeds; Since a report last month claims that in selected areas T-Mobile was switching onto 3G for frequencies that existing unlocked iPhones and other device with that carrier can use as part of its 84Mbps upgrade.

From MacRumors: In a clarification to 9to5Mac, T-Mobile reports that Ray said only that Apple could use an AWS-capable chipset in a future iPhone model, not that he had specific knowledge of Apple’s roadmap.