“Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile carrier, sold 4.2 million Apple Inc. iPhones in the fourth quarter, more than doubling from the third quarter, said Fran Shammo, finance chief of the company’s parent,” Scott Moritz reports for Bloomberg.
“The demand suggests Verizon Wireless is winning an increasing share of new iPhone users, after gaining rights to offer the handset to its subscribers last year,” Moritz reports. “In the third quarter, Verizon added 2 million customers for the device, trailing the 2.7 million iPhone activations at AT&T Inc., which has offered the handset since 2007.”
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MacDailyNews Note: In addition, Dan Seifert reports for MobileBurn that Verizon activated 2.2 million LTE devices during the quarter.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Springer99” for the heads up.]