“Both Sprint and Verizon are seeing strong iPhone sales, says Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, citing checks,” Electronista reports.
“Sprint has allegedly begun reversing a tide of subscriber loss to AT&T and Verizon, which was caused by simply not having the iPhone as an option until October 14th,” Electronista reports. “With Verizon, Wu says he is ‘hearing strong traction’ in which Android and BlackBerry users are switching to the iPhone, helped by many contracts coming up for renewal.”
Electronista reports, “Japanese carrier KDDI is also said to be experiencing ‘strong momentum,’ having become just the second official Japanese iPhone partner last month.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
After 3 years of AT&T’s Edge and 3G network in Eastern WA with data speeds exceeding 2 and 4 kbytes/second…..I sent my final message to AT&T via “Mark Your Spot App” that said 700kbytes/sec on SPRINT lol
AT&T is getting better. I’ve had the iPhone since the beginning in 2007. I’ve heard lots of complaints of coverage in NYC, but, in my experience, I believe LA is worse. My friend that moved there (from LA) a year ago concurs.
According to the Speed Test App, at my apartment I’m getting around 2 Mbps. Below are my best results so far. What sort of results are you getting?
AT&T network. iPhone 4S
Nov 1, 2011
Los Angeles, near La Brea and Beverly Blvd
Speed Test App results:
Test Date: Nov 1, 2011 10:27 AM
Connection Type: Cellular
Server: Los Angeles, CA
Download: 3.15 Mbps
Upload: 0.71 Mbps
Ping: 133 ms
Latitude: 34.0761
Longitude: -118.3453
you don”t say
Ok, which USA telco has the best rates and download speeds?
Performance depends primarily on where you use your phone. I have not compared rates recently.
“subscriber loss to AT&T and Verizon, which was caused by simply not having the iPhone”
Wait wait wait.. But HTC and Samsung has “SHIPPED” more phones than Apple (which actually “Sold” not just “ships”.. where is this math wrong Mr ANYLysts?
All these shipped but that just means not sold claims are really getting tiresome. There is no bigger Apple fanboy than me but really, do you folks think that for instance Samsung shipped 27 million phones and they are all in a warehouse somewhere? And they are still shipping hundreds of thousand more per month to that giant holding pen? I am sure quite a few are not sold but all this damning of analysts because they don’t know shit but a bunch of posters who also don’t know shit proves nothing. There is little doubt that Androids are outselling iPhones, probably because they are cheaper or two for one deals but non the less they are selling more. It does not matter; Apple sells all they can make at this point.
do you folks think that for instance Samsung shipped 27 million phones and they are all in a warehouse somewhere? And they are still shipping hundreds of thousand more per month to that giant holding pen?
Short answer – YES – Longer answer is simple.
They (Samsung) are stuffing the channel so as to have something to sell when the ITC bans importation in the US and other Countries in EU, Australia exc.
And to think was sweating their “bet the company” move to sign a deal with Apple for however many iPhones it was over a 4 year period. They’ll make those sales and be glad they made the deal.
Sprint investors are still sweating. Sprint isn’t supposed to recoup losses until a couple of years from now due to the iPhone deal and having to build out infrastructure. Investors and Wall Street are not patient. They want their returns yesterday, not two years from now. You’d also be surprised that there are so many key people on Wall Street continue to believe that Android will hold dominance over iOS despite Android being such a poor money-making financial model.
Android users aren’t loyal enough so chances are they’ll be switching to the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 when their contracts are up thanks to the lower price structure of those two devices. I don’t think the 8 GB storage capacity will stop most switchers.
How about an Ipod touch with a GSM slot/ CDMA radio so you can just pick your carrier and make calls or text i.e telphone only? If you need data, you go to a wifi spot. Many of us don’t need data all the time and don’ want to pay for it. Hence don’t own smart phones. If apple did this, the would could merge the Ipod line into the Phone market, And with Face Time, Itunes, etc get even lower end users into the Apple sphere of influence. Carries would love to sell more phones and offload the heavy use on to wifi,
And Sprint faces deploying LTE from scratch – no way the iPhone’s ever gonna support WiMax (tho’ I think I recall reading that parts of the deployment can be converted to LTE???). Not out of the woods yet.