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AT&T expects record quarter on iPhone 4S sales

by Steven Sande Dec 7th 2011 at 3:30PM

Thanks to the success of the iPhone 4S, AT&T announced today that it expects to have its best quarter ever for sales of smartphones. In the press release from AT&T, the company noted that its network is the place where iPhone 4S users can "download three times faster and talk and surf at the same time."

Over 1 million iPhone 4S smartphones were activated by AT&T in the first five days of availability, although the cellular carrier declined to note how many devices out of 6 million sold in October and November were iPhones. Since December is usually a strong month for smartphone sales, AT&T should beat its previous quarterly smartphone sales record of 6.1 million units.

AT&T senior VP and CFO, John Stephens, revealed the information at a conference in New York. Stephens also told attendees that it plans on having its 4G LTE network available to 70 million people by the end of 2011. Apple has not yet announced plans to launch an LTE iPhone in 2012, although that move is widely expected.



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hfwbr

This, despite AT&T's best efforts to promote everything *but* the iPhone over the past several months.

December 08 2011 at 8:31 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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twhiting9275

AT&T doesn't HAVE to promote the iPhone, Apple does that, and it sells itself ;)

December 10 2011 at 2:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
The_Jesus

Interesting that TUAW writes up the one positive AT&T story from the last week.

Didn't read anything on this blog about Consumer Reports rating AT&T the worst of the US carriers (again), or AT&T throttling their top 5% data users to Edge data speeds. Just sayin' is all...

December 07 2011 at 3:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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macserv

The story is relevant here because the record sales are due to the iPhone 4s, and this is an Apple-centric blog. AT&T's customer service ratings or data throttling practices are better reported by a general technology blog.

December 07 2011 at 11:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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The_Jesus

I didn't question the article's relevance, I was implying that the blog is skewing AT&T-positive.

And I'd argue that if you're going to say AT&T's sales figures (which include all smartphones) are relevant to an iPhone blog, than their data throttling and customer service ratings are as well.

December 08 2011 at 5:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down
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