iPhone 3G Sales Spur AT&T Wireless Growth in Q4 2008

[mavis]

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Well, I given up any thought of an iphone.. AT&T can blow me! So can the banks. I have no credit cards! No mortgage! No debt...And I do not do credit checks. Yes, I do not give my social security number out for any reason whatsoever. "EVER" Not even for medical attention. I figure I will just die if I have to in my stubronness. I spend as little as humanely possable and still live! Am a major contributor to the decline of the American econemy...(and loven it!) Screw AT&T and the banks.....I am the inception of consumer revolt.......

Your post made me laugh. Thx.

 

[Sehnsucht]

Overall, AT&T's wireless revenue rose 13.2% year-over-year and made up 41.4% of AT&T's total revenue, up from 37.4% in the year-ago quarter.

They should put this revenue toward improving their sh***y 3G network.

 

[kdarling]

That is not what I am saying. Having the on going costs of maintaining two sets of software/phones, QA test two sets of software/phones, train staff to deal with two carriers would be expensive for Apple. You have to set that against how many new customers would you get by offering a CDMA device. ...

1) Every other phone maker creates both GSM and CDMA versions. Not a big deal.

2) Apple already changed radios, when they switched chipsets to get one with W-CDMA support for 3G.

3) Yes, put it against the number of potential new customers. It doesn't matter how many people in the world use GSM, if they're not buying iPhones.

About half of all iPhones sold are in the USA. If Apple added CDMA, they could easily double USA sales. Therefore CDMA phones could amount to over 1/3 of world iPhone sales.

So it's not technical or sales reasons why they don't have a CDMA version. It's other factors.

 

[firewood]

Yeah they will. In fact, I bet they already have one developed.

They may have had one contemporary with the 1st generation iPhone prototypes. Those are obsolete now. And around the time that Apple's AT&T exclusive contract expires, Verizon and Sprint might well be starting to migrate away from CDMA for their network expansion, and converting to newer standards. There's no reason for Apple to invest in a dying standard.

 

[IronCross]

Just so everyone knows, $375 is incorrect, at least according to what the New York Times printed last year. When the iphone 3g first came out it was slightly above the normal rates. It's only $300 now, which is like $5.50 less a month then $375. not that that really matters

Just so everyone knows, you're wrong.

$375 subsidy is correct. Take it from those of us who work for AT&T, receive iPhone shipments and see the price that AT&T is paying for each and every phone.

$575 for 8GB
$675 for 16GB

It very well might cost less for Apple to produce em' but it doesn't cost AT&T less per phone whatsoever.

 

[twoodcc]

it seems to me that AT&T needs to work on making their network ready for more and more traffic.

 

[PeterQVenkman]

2. The average revenue from Phone users is 60% higher than the typical AT&T customer -- thanks to that $30 per month data fee. Their heavy use of Web services helped drive AT&T wireless data use up 51.2% year to year, which as reader Jon in Brentwood, Calif., points out is not necessarily a good thing.

This is why I don't have an iPhone. $30 a month is what I pay now for EVERYTHING, based on some absurd deal I got with Verizon back in 2001 that they no longer offer, but I am able to continue to use.

There is definitely a premium price point that a lot of people don't want to pay. Meanwhile, I'm intensely jealous of iPhone users. I want one. I just don't want to pay ridiculous amounts of cash to use a device I own.

 

[PeterQVenkman]

Well, I given up any thought of an iphone.. AT&T can blow me! So can the banks. I have no credit cards! No mortgage! No debt...And I do not do credit checks. Yes, I do not give my social security number out for any reason whatsoever. "EVER" Not even for medical attention. I figure I will just die if I have to in my stubronness. I spend as little as humanely possable and still live! Am a major contributor to the decline of the American econemy...(and loven it!) Screw AT&T and the banks.....I am the inception of consumer revolt.......

Tyler Durden?

 

[$ahil]

Great. Can we have tethering now?



Apple will never make a CDMA iPhone. We're the only country on earth to still use this outdated tech.

You say that like you know.

More than 80 million customers (verizon + alltel) .. i dont think Apple will miss an opportunity to market to them. And just fyi CDMA was Apple's FIRST choice. AT&T's customer service is horrendous and service is pure garbage. Every person I know who owns the iPhone says the service is horrible wherever they travel.

 

[DiamondMac]

I don't understand why people bitch about AT&T so much. We just switched from Verizon in December, and we are having a much better experience with AT&T then we did with Verizon. AT&T is 1000x better then Verizon ever will be.

Don

Did the thought ever cross your mind that your area may have good AT&T service while others do not?

I am with the other guy

I got AT&T for the iPhone and am loving it but the AT&T service is almost a joke. I had Verizon before and it blows away AT&T and then some service wise.

I can deal with it though because the Verizon phone was a piece of

 

[MacAgent84]

It seems to me that AT&T really became lucky with Apple choosing them as the provider for the iPhone. Other cell phone networks had much more profits than AT&T Wireless ever had, but Apple chose them anyway. Maybe now with the extra money they can start working on their poor 3G speed and coverage for their network. One can only hope!