Analysts: Verizon could ship 15 million iPhone this year

“Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster acknowledges that he may have forecasted on the conservative side just a few weeks ago and now says Verizon could match AT&T in shipping as many as 15 million iPhones in 2011,” Clint Boulton reports for eWeek. “Munster wrote Dec. 15 that he expected Verizon to ship 9 million units for 2011, with AT&T selling 11 million for a total of 20 million devices snapped up.”

Bouton reports, “Gleacher and Co.’s Brian Marshall told eWEEK that Verizon should sell 12 million iPhone units in 2011, assuming a similar ramp to what AT&T experienced in 2007 and 2008. And that number might actually prove conservative, Marshall said, adding that AT&T shipped 14.1 million iPhones in the fourth quarter alone.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]