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AT&T Says They've Sold Twice As Many iPhone 3Gs as iPhones

Submitted by Edward Kirk on July 23, 2008 - 10:29am.
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According to AlleyInsider, AT&T says that despite supply issues and fears that it wasn't selling as well as Apple says it has, they have managed to sell nearly twice as many iPhone 3Gs than they have old iPhones in just the 12 days it's been available. They recently posted their Q2 earnings results, and they say they should have an even stronger Q3 now that the iPhone 3G is out. They haven't posted any real numbers to support their claim, however. Analysts have also said that they can expect their subsidizing of iPhones to hurt their earnings by 10 to 12 cents per share this year, and that the iPhone won't be accretive until 2010.


Submitted by javaGuru on July 23, 2008 - 11:42am.
This doesn't surprise me considering all of the glitches in AT&Ts system causing people who were attempting to purchase an iPhone 3G at the Apple store to have to buy their iPhones from them. They also did not allow anyone with corporate discounts etc to purchase an iPhone 3G at the Apple store. It almost seems like AT&T designed it this way so they could increase their sales.

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Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on July 23, 2008 - 2:06pm.
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Originally Posted by javaGuru View Post
This doesn't surprise me considering all of the glitches in AT&Ts system causing people who were attempting to purchase an iPhone 3G at the Apple store to have to buy their iPhones from them. They also did not allow anyone with corporate discounts etc to purchase an iPhone 3G at the Apple store. It almost seems like AT&T designed it this way so they could increase their sales.
Elaborate please. You didn't make any sense, and I'm not aware of any issue with corporate discounts.

Submitted by xxx on July 23, 2008 - 2:42pm.
From the ATT i went to before, some didn't even sell the original iPhones. Now the 3G is in every single one of them. Must of helped them boost their numbers.

Submitted by X3cution3R on July 23, 2008 - 3:30pm.
the sale of more 3g iphones over the first probably has a lot to do with the 3g being offered all over the world, and not just in the US. a larger market will usually result in more sales...duh

Submitted by javaGuru on July 23, 2008 - 5:48pm.
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Elaborate please. You didn't make any sense, and I'm not aware of any issue with corporate discounts.
Sorry if you didn't understand. I guess I was assuming most people were aware of the pre-conditions that had to be met before purchasing an iPhone at an Apple store. So, I will clarify.

If you have an AT&T corporate discount you could NOT purchase the iPhone at the Apple store. This forced many people to have to go to an AT&T store to purchase the phone. I attempted to purchase it at the Apple store. I had no discounts at all on my account. However, due to a glitch in AT&T's web service used by Apple I could not purchase the phone on 7/11. This glitch returned an error code, "IRU", which stated that I had a discount when in fact I did not. Due to the extremely complicated activation process etc... many people were forced to purchase their phones at an AT&T store. So, of coarse AT&T sold more iPhones this go around.