“Verizon posted results on Thursday for its winter quarter that rode heavily on iPhone sales,” Electronista reports.
“It added a total of 1.8 million new customers, 906,000 of which were regular cellphone subscribers, but was propped up chiefly by 2.2 million iPhones being activated in the network,” Electronista reports. “The carrier’s iPhone activations were less than 18.65 million total iPhones, significantly higher than the 16 million some analysts had been predicting.”
Electronista reports, “A comparison to Verizon’s total platform mix wasn’t made available, but the number suggests the iPhone may have been Verizon’s most popular by a wide margin.”
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“AT&T in its quarterly results said it had managed a record number of iPhone activations in spite of the launch of the Verizon edition. It switched on 3.6 million new iPhones, a full million more than it did a year ago and more than 60 percent of the 5.5 million total smartphones activated in the season,” Electronista reports.
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