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iPhone Represents 55% of Verizon's 4Q 2011 Smartphone Sales
Earlier this month, Verizon Wireless Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo noted that the carrier had activated 4.2 million iPhones during the fourth quarter of 2011, more than doubling the previous quarter's sales on the momentum of the iPhone 4S launch and potentially signaling a blockbuster quarter for Apple in the iPhone market.
Verizon today officially announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing in a conference call that the company actually activated 4.3 million iPhones during the quarter. With the carrier reporting total smartphone sales of 7.7 million units, the iPhone represented approximately 55% of the carrier's smartphone sales for the quarter.
Verizon wireless profit margins and net growth in retail customers
Smartphones now account for 44% of Verizon's postpaid customer phone base, up from 39% in the previous quarter. That strong growth in smartphones such as the iPhone significantly reduced the carrier's margins in its wireless business during the quarter as absorbed the heavy upfront subsidies paid to manufacturers for the devices. Verizon will recover those costs over the length of customers' contracts, making carriers willing to take short term hits to profitability to lock in smartphone customers on lucrative service contracts.
Verizon today officially announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing in a conference call that the company actually activated 4.3 million iPhones during the quarter. With the carrier reporting total smartphone sales of 7.7 million units, the iPhone represented approximately 55% of the carrier's smartphone sales for the quarter.
Verizon wireless profit margins and net growth in retail customers
Smartphones now account for 44% of Verizon's postpaid customer phone base, up from 39% in the previous quarter. That strong growth in smartphones such as the iPhone significantly reduced the carrier's margins in its wireless business during the quarter as absorbed the heavy upfront subsidies paid to manufacturers for the devices. Verizon will recover those costs over the length of customers' contracts, making carriers willing to take short term hits to profitability to lock in smartphone customers on lucrative service contracts.
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86 months ago
It seems that Android is not growing as fast as I originally thought. Am I missing something here? Doesn't Verizon have a ton of Android phones? Good news for Apple I guess.
Yeah Verizon has 10 LTE phones as of today, and they sold 2.3 million in the 4th Quarter. Verizon sold 4.2M iPhones. For all the craziness android fanatics said about LTE, it seems no one really cares.
86 months ago
Yeah it outsold all the 4G devices combined by almost double. The beginning of the end for Apple is imminent.
86 months ago
This is what happens when Apple enters your sandbox.
Just wait till the next iPhone comes out...Armageddon is coming for Droid.
Just wait till the next iPhone comes out...Armageddon is coming for Droid.
86 months ago
I steered as many people away from Android as I possibly could at my Verizon store! Especially towards the affordable iPhone 4 in 8 GB, since it tops any 4G LTE phone that Verizon has at that price range.
86 months ago
OMG but it has no turn-by-turn GPS!!!:eek:
Or something.
Let's go camping!
86 months ago
That doesn't seem to hold true in Western Europe. The iPhone to Android ratio is at least 5:1
I guess Western Europeans don't like using cheap-looking junk.:rolleyes:
86 months ago
I know quite a few Verizon fans who stuck with Verizon all these years. They've spent years buying Android phones and carrying around an iPod Touch at the same time. Now each and every one of them has an iPhone 4S instead.
I wonder how many of those people there are.
I wonder how many of those people there are.
86 months ago
Well what do you know...
A company that SWORE by the Droid, now sells more iPhone's than Droid, Windows, and Blackberry combined. :apple::apple:
A company that SWORE by the Droid, now sells more iPhone's than Droid, Windows, and Blackberry combined. :apple::apple:
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