AT&T Rules the iPhone With 20% of Global Sales Pie
AT&T may still be the most chastised carrier in the U.S., but the company appears to remains Apple's most important iPhone distribution channel.
The company said that it activated 7.6 million iPhones during the fourth quarter, with the majority of them being 4S models. According to Apple, 37.04 million iPhones were sold in Q4 in total, which gives AT&T more than 20 percent share - globally. There may be some minor inventory fluctuations between the time frames of AT&T's and Apple's quarters, but given the fact that Apple is still selling every iPhone it makes those fluctuations are likely to come down to rounding errors in Apple's iPhone shipment number.
AT&T posted 103.2 million postpaid subscribers, behind Verizon's 108.2 million. 57 percent of AT&T customers (69.3 million subscribers) own smartphones, while its larger rival Verizon stands at only 44 percent penetration (47.5 million customers). Verizon noted that it sold 7.7 million smartphones during the quarter, which includes iPhones, Android phones as well as other platforms such as Windows Phone. Even though Verizon does not break out its iPhone numbers, it is easy to assume that AT&T clearly beat Verizon again.
Driven by the iPhone, AT&T was able to generate higher wireless revenues of $16.7 billion during the quarter, despite a subscriber base that has five million fewer subscribers. Verizon's revenue landed at $15.1 billion
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Just goes to show, at&t customers are mostly satisfied with the service and/or prices relative to the competition's. To be honest, it does seem like most of the people that whine about at&t are Verizon fanboys anyways. I am in no way saying at&t is the best here, just that maybe they aren't all bad.
Sounds logical. All these AT&T subscribers were renewing their contracts and they did not want to switch to a different platform, most of them because they were grandfathered in the old "unlimited" 5GB data contract with their phones.
On Verizon, OTOH, new smartphone customers had to choose between different platforms with the same data plan (2GB). Of course not all of them chose the iOS platform. Hence the difference.
Probably soon enough AT&T will get rid of all the grandfathered "unlimited" plans, as they will figure they're losing some money over it, as opposed to Verizon. Greedy bastards will always be greedy bastards.
here's the breakdown
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23873
AT&T's numbers and Apples numbers won't line up. So many AT&T phones (which are unlocked until locked by carrier by activating with ATT sim card) are sold over seas. I alone sold 350 AT&T iphone 4s's. One of the guys I could buy them in bulk from had them by the thousands.
most consumers are stupid and dont care/look into these things.