“UK iPhone carrier O2 added 137,596 pay-monthly customers – and says the Apple device helped drive these gains,” Jonny Evans reports for Macworld UK.
“These new customers turned up in advance of the introduction of the iPhone 3G, suggesting the price cut which presaged the launch of the new that was applied against units of the old model did the trick,” Evans reports.
“The addition of 137,596 new customers is 80.8% more people than who signed-up new to O2 in the same period last year. And the iPhone has become the network’s fastest selling mobile phone ever,” Evans reports.
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