According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Cingular Wireless will provide service for Apple's new cell phone lending hope to a launch today at Macworld.

The report cited people familiar with the situation. The Associated Press contacted Cingular who had no comment. This latest report supports an earlier story run at Everything iPhone that Apple would launch the iPhone exclusively through Cingular.

Cingular, a unit of AT&T Inc., launched an Apple-related phone and MP3 player, called ROKR, in 2005. But the product was widely considered a flop because it could only hold 100 songs and it required users to buy songs through a computer and download the songs to the phone