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After a little over three years, Apple's iPhone continues to prop up AT&T's wireless business, at least in part. Out of the 8 million smartphones AT&T said it activated in the third quarter, more than half -- 5.2 million -- were iPhones.
AT&T announced the numbers as part of its third quarter earnings, in which the wireless carrier posted "record wireless sales." In addition to 8 million smartphones, AT&T said it added 2.6 million wireless subscribers, "the highest third-quarter net gain in the company's history," and now claims 92.8 million subscribers overall.
With Apple's iPhone playing such an important role in AT&T's wireless business, it will be interesting to see how the company fares should the iPhone make its rumored trek to Verizon in 2011.
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riopato
October 21, 2010 at 6:00pm
1. How does this compare to all the android phones within At&t's line up
2. Are these total sales or just the sales and new activations of the iphone 4. Does it include returning customers upgrading they're previous iphone?
3. What the hell is this biased information doing on a website named Maximum PC!?! What exactly is so Maximum pc about iPhone?????????????????????????? This news isn't even Maximum Tech worthy!!!!!
Eoraptor
October 21, 2010 at 9:48am
I have to wonder how many of those "iphone activations" were recycled or regifted iPhones? Vs New sales of the 4? IE, how many iphone customers are they churning between their own lousy coverage, and the flaws inherant in iPhone4?both goushow
incidentally, I love the image :D
