“Verizon Wireless says it’s ready for a rush of buyers in the next two weeks for Apple Inc.’s iPhone,” Cromwell Schubarth reports for The Triangle Business Journal.
“Existing customers can begin ordering their devices on Thursday at 3 a.m. Eastern time, a time that is being counted down on the website where they can make their purchases,” Schubarth reports. “The rest of the U.S. can buy a Verizon iPhone a week later on Feb. 10.”
Schubarth reports, “The company says that it will be able to handle the expected sales of between 400,000 to 500,000 in the first weekend.”
MacDailyNews Take: Uh oh. Who’s setting first weekend iPhone expectations for Verizon, Steve Ballmer?
Schubarth reports, “When the Verizon iPhones go on sale at the carrier’s and Apple stores at 7 a.m. EST on Feb. 10, long lines are expected… Verizon is offering the 16-gigabyte iPhone 4 for $199.99 and the 32GB version for $299 for 32 GB with a two-year service contract. There is an unlimited data plan available for $29.99 a month and customers who want to take advantage of the new Wi-Fi hotspot feature will pay $20 more per month.”
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Pre-orders + first weekend sales = more than one million.
The new math.
I’m looking forward to my AT&T speeds getting faster. Bye guys!
Loving that unlimited data plan on my iPhone 4…
They would sell 400,000 to 500,000 of the first weekend if the phone shipped with the old system 7 on it.
Who really knows though. Maybe the other 500,000 believe that Verizon will get an updated iPhone in June/July like At&t will.
Either or, a shlt ton of people are going to be lining up for this phone. Seeing how no other platform sees lines for products it will be fun to watch the chaos unfold.
My bet is that it won’t even make it to 500,000. But the reason it won’t will be because Verizon’s servers will choke and die.
Verizon is NOT going to be able to handle the influx of traffic to their website, let alone their network once the iPhones start shipping. You heard it here first.
I am sure that Verizon knows how many people have satisfied their plan requirements and are ready for a new phone.
We will see how close they come.
Just a thought.
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The funny comment is from all the people thinking that once users leave AT&T for Verizon, that their service will magically become better. Why is that? Less people online? When I try and get my voicemail at 2am and I get a spinning wheel for 10 minutes and can’t connect, I don’t think that’s because there are as many people online as there will be at 6pm during the evening rush, when it’s almost impossible to carry on a conversation without dropping the call. There are definitely less people online at 2am, but service still sucks in the NYC area.
3:10 am 02.03.11 – Verizon’s servers collapse after massive influx of pre-orders.
BTW – I think the pre-orders are for existing Verizon customers only – or am I confused? Either way, I’m sticking with AT&T – works great for me here in NY, and I would not want to sacrifice GSM and real multitasking and world phone for CDMA.
I’ll stick with MaBell… when I had verizon before the service was seriously spotty.
@jarrettdailynews,
“They would sell 400,000 to 500,000 of the first weekend if the phone shipped with the old system 7 on it.”
I’d be first in line if they shipped an iPhone with the old System 7 on it…only for the novelty of course.
Actually, vMac even allowed System 6 on jailbroken iPhones. That was fun for a while.
VERIZONWIRELESS SHOULD GET IPHONE X AT A LATER TIME, BECAUSE THEY INITALLY TURNED DOWN APPLE FOR THE 1ST IPHONE. ALSO OUT OF RESPECT TO ATT.
No one understands that Verizon will handle 400,00 to 500,000 phones the first weekend and Apple will handle the other 500,00 to 600,000 sales? Duh!
I wish Verizon well. I think Apple was pretty smart to bring them into the fold. Still, A CDMA phone is not a “world phone” so that makes it a non-starter for me.
Things will change down the road. It will only get more interesting.
It amazes me that people who have complained about AT&T now seem to be defending them. Obviously this doesn’t apply to all of you so save the “I never said anything” comments.
My question to you is – Why does it bother some of you that some people with horrible AT&T service want to switch providers?
If you are in an area with great AT&T service, then fine. You have it all. A GSM world phone, voice and date, and rollover minutes. Is it that you don’t believe that anyone else might have a problem with their service, or you just don’t want to believe it. Well, believe it! Nobody wants to be with a provider and then have to switch, buy a new phone, possibly pay an early termination fee, etc..
Why would someone want to do that? It’s because their AT&T service is unbearable in THEIR location.
I’ll ask again. Why does it bother you so much that someone wants to switch to a different provider?
Doesn’t bother me at all. I wish them well. I don’t have any compelling reason to switch.
I hoped that with VZ there will be more competition. We’ll see.
I would like to see iPhone on t-mobile and Sprint too.
I just signed up as a Verizon customer an bought two crappy phones so I could order as an existing customer on Thursday morning. My service in SF is getting worse by the day. Now many callers never even get through to my phone, dropped calls, undelivered texts, truncated texts. I really don’t care if I cannot surf the web and call at the same time – I need a phone that works. As for ATT service getting better because there are less people on the network — good luck with that theory.
I thought it spent most of its time promoting Microsoft products like everyone else does.Apple isn’t represented enough in the.
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So buy an iPhone 4 now? Why not wait until June and get the iPhone 5? Seems like a no brainer to me. I will probably stick with AT&T until Verizon has an iPhone that allows me to make a call and surf at the same time. I am not happy with AT&T but not that unhappy. Maybe things will improve on AT&T’s network once a lot of folks switch to Verizon.
Have you ever noted the BBC are in reality the biggest advertiser in the world…And we pay for it.. Sly devious “Product placement” is an absolute art at the Beeb mate.
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