"Only"? It seems like a lot considering it was only available the last 10 days of the quarter. They probably sold just about every phone they could get from Apple. The number could have been higher, but many people had their deliveries back ordered into October.
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iPhone 5 Represented 21% of Verizon's 3.1 Million iPhone Activations in 3Q 2012
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"Only"? It seems like a lot considering it was only available the last 10 days of the quarter. They probably sold just about every phone they could get from Apple. The number could have been higher, but many people had their deliveries back ordered into October.
Couple of things:
1. You can upgrade and keep unlimited data, you just have to pay full price for the iPhone 5 (which is a change in contract terms worthy of a release from the ETF IMO.)
2. The true test will be relative subscriber additions compared to AT&T and Sprint this time next week.
1. You can upgrade and keep unlimited data, you just have to pay full price for the iPhone 5 (which is a change in contract terms worthy of a release from the ETF IMO.)
2. The true test will be relative subscriber additions compared to AT&T and Sprint this time next week.
46% of smartphone sales, yeah half full. Apple should not rest until it hits 100%. </sarcasm>
then verizon is lying to its customers and to me. are you sure you kept unlimited data or just your 2nd gen legacy tiered plan?
they ended all unlimited 4G plans after a very brief introduction on that Motorola Droid phone. after that was ended, it was impossible to ever get a NEW unlimited 4G data plan. if you were one of the lucky ones who got an unlimited LTE plan during that limited plan - you are grandfathered for life as long as you buy your phones at full retail
i was told by verizon that regardless of where i buy my iPhone 5, that since i was going from a 3G phone (iPhone 4S) to a 4G LTE phone that i would be losing unlimited data
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But dont most iphone buyers buy at release due to the yearly refresh? I would think that 21% is near the cap maybe 10% off.
that's not what Verizon is telling me. they said if i pay full price for the phone, since i am going from an iPhone 4S 3G to a LTE phone that i would lose unlimited data and be forced onto the tiered plan. i don't have to get the share everything plan though, but i do lose unlimited data
For single accounts, Verizon's cheapest monthly plan costs $90 + taxes + (hidden fees?) whereas AT&T still offers a barebones $60 plan. I don't know how much of a difference that makes for the overall sales though. My guess is less than 2.5 million iPhone 5 sales in the US during those 10 days.
Sure, but it's screaming fast where it exists. I get 50Mbps downstream and almost 20Mbps upstream outside of Cleveland.
Nope. Just a few percent buy it on launch week (2-5%?).
Cap of what? From previous reports, the newest iPhone is usually around 90% of all iPhone sales. I'd bet the the iPhone 5 will only be slightly less.
I wonder what the percentage is of users moving off of unlimited plan upgrades to tiered data plans. It was the only reason I canceled my order for the iPhone5, though it's a great phone, the only way to retain my unlimited plan w/ Verizon is to buy the phone outright :-/
i didn't even think you could buy the iPhone 5 at full price and keep unlimited data (but at LTE speeds). my understanding was that once you go from 3G to 4G you lose unlimited no matter what.
i use 6GB per month of data. it saves me money to buy the phone at full price than for me to buy 6GB of tiered data. while $729 is steep to drop down on a phone, just buy it on credit and make payments over 18 months which will roughly be $40/mo. 0% interest and you will build up your credit score big time with retail loans
I thought the same thing until I re-read it. There's nothing grammatically wrong with how this story is written but the lead got buried. The headline is about the specific iPhone 5 numbers but should have been based around this part:
Blistering start for the iPhone 5.
650k in 10 days...
I keep hearing that the GS3 is this great big seller and iphone 5 killer yet no one ever wants to talk about its specific activations.
650k in 10 days...
I keep hearing that the GS3 is this great big seller and iphone 5 killer yet no one ever wants to talk about its specific activations.
I think 20 million for one android based phone is a breakout for those devices. I highly doubt any other sigle android based phone has sold in those numbers so it's a big deal for them. I think the number of devices using android is somewhere north of 4,000 devices currently on the market. iOS is more like 12? or 20 tops? (I didn't count them up
)So 20 million says, they have a hit on their hands, at least by their standards.
I think 20 million for one android based phone is a breakout for those devices. I highly doubt any other sigle android based phone has sold in those numbers so it's a big deal for them. I think the number of devices using android is somewhere north of 4,000 devices currently on the market. iOS is more like 12? or 20 tops? (I didn't count them up
So 20 million says, they have a hit on their hands, at least by their standards.
20 millions units sold - no matter what device, manufacturer, etc is safely a "hit". In what world is it that someone selling 20 million of something - pretty much anything - doesn't equate to a big success?