The iPhone is killing Verizon
Locked into a Droid with BIG RED...$350 will buy your freedom
of new subscribers gained by Verizon with all handsets during the
September quarter. One city in CA was hit by a 2000% increase in cell
traffic since 2008 just because of all the new iPhone users according
to AT&T.
Disappointing Droid sales (sold -returns) are already rumored to
cause a Big Red change of course again to combat the iPhone.
Dennis Ferguson
> More new customers came to AT&T for the iPhone than the total number
> of new subscribers gained by Verizon with all handsets during the
> September quarter.
> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/17/verizon_rumored_to_embrace_palm_in_2010_to_combat_iphone.html
For what it is worth the number of subscribers the article claims
Verizon added last quarter appears no where in Verizon's 10-Q, and
the number which does appear in Verizon's 10-Q, 1.32 million, while
not a whole lot better, actually exceeds the number of AT&T iPhone
customers the article claims were added (1.28 million). The above
claim makes a nice quip, but doesn't seem to be true.
It seems to be the case, however, that AT&T only offers the iPhone
to retail postpaid customers and AT&T only added 1.39 million of
those last quarter. If 1.28 million of those really bought iPhones
then the rest of AT&T's handset line did a whole lot worse than
Verizon.
Dennis Ferguson
Larry
news:slrnhg7vpm.4...@akit-ferguson.com:
I wonder what the iPhone churn figures look like. They're sure rippin
off the software heavily....
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/iPhone/news.asp?c=16836
The Borg has new offerings to slow the iPhone churn:
http://news.vzw.com/news/2009/01/pr2009-01-23a.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11603
Crazy Nokia is actually working to get the hackers to mod the new N900
phones! They even have a blog about it!
http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/index.php/2009/10/31/drum-roll-please/
....even the skaters are hackin' it!
http://prometoys.net/solderingskaters/
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Larry