Sprint also has a big smartphone Q4 as Nextel customer losses mount
Sprint sold 6.1 million smartphones, including 2.1 million iPhones. The exodus of Nextel and Boost customers continued, though, resulting in overall subscriber losses. Read more »
AT&T matches Verizon smartphone for smartphone; activates 8.6M iPhones
AT&T had another record quarter of iPhone sales, and while it didn’t come close to the huge new subscriber growth of arch-rival Verizon, AT&T beat its competitor out in overall smartphone sales. Read more »
Verizon sees big Q4 influx of 4G activations including 3.1M LTE iPhones
LTE devices drove Verizon’s fourth quarter. It activated 7.3 million LTE devices in three months and sold 6.2 million iPhones. Half of those iPhones were Apple’s newest LTE-enabled model. Read more »
AT&T’s Q4 will be a doozey thanks to the smartphone
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega predicts a record smartphone sales quarter over the holidays, beating even last year’s 9.4 million device sales. The conditions that made last year’s Q4 a success are in place, including the timely fall release of the iPhone. Read more »
Sprint can barely wait to rid itself of Nextel network
For the first time in six years, Sprint’s aging Nextel and wireline businesses didn’t overwhelm all positive gains from its primary CDMA business in its quarterly results. Still, Sprint is anxious to shed the Nextel albatross and Wednesday detailed its plans to shut down iDEN. Read more »
Despite Growth, Apple Slips a Spot in U.S. Computer Sales Rankings
Two separate studies have been released ranking sales of computers in the U.S., and both agree that Apple has fallen one place compared to results from the same quarter last year. In both studies, one of which comes from research firm IDC and one of which […] Read more »
