“About one quarter of consumers adopting Apple’s heavily-hyped iPhone handset are ‘switchers’ to AT&T from other carriers, financial firm American Technology Research reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“‘We find these numbers impressive, showing that a fair amount of customers are willing to pay high early cancellation fees (~$125-$200) to get out of their existing service contracts for an iPhone,’ analyst Shaw Wu wrote,” Marsal reports.
MacDailyNews Take: What about those, like us, who have been waiting for the Apple iPhone for years and therefore just let our contracts end? We simply dumped Verizon for the iPhone with no ($0) cancellation fees.
Marsal continues, “‘…Due to AT&T’s success and ability to gain new customers with iPhone in the USA, other carriers including Orange, T-Mobile and O2 are aggressively bidding for European iPhone rights, giving Vodafone stiff competition,’ Wu wrote. ‘From our understanding, there could be a scenario where iPhone has multiple carrier partnerships (maximizing its market potential) with each tailored for specific regions and/or countries, i.e. Vodafone in the UK, T-Mobile in Germany, and Orange in France.'”
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