Verizon say it aerate 2.2 million iPhone 4s during its first quarter , tag a strong debut for Apple ’s smartphone as it expanded its reach to a second mailman in the U.S.
Verizon ’s annunciation come Thursday , as part of its quarterly earnings account . The iPhone 4 helped contribute to strong growth in receipts and customers for Verizon ’s wireless business . Overall the fellowship get a line its net income leap to $ 1.44 billion , up from $ 443 million in the year ago twenty-five percent . Verizon cover $ 26.99 billion in gross , a modest 0.3 percent gain from last year ’s figure .
A CDMA - base version of the iPhone 4 compatible with Verizon ’s networkwent on sale February 10 . With Verizon ’s poop stop March 31 , that means the carrier racked up those 2.2 million activation in seven week . Verizon say the iPhone 4 produced the most successful first - twenty-four hours sale in the account of its wireless business .
Compare that figure to AT&T ’s iPhone energizing during the March quartern . On Wednesday , AT&T say it activated 3.6 million iPhones during the first three months of 2011 . While that ’s more than what Verizon reported Thursday , keep in mind that AT&T was able to sell both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS for the entire tail .
Of the iPhones activated by Verizon , the company said that 22 per centum of those activations occur from novel Verizon client . It also reported that 48 percent of iPhone upgrades were by customers new to the smartphone family .
Neither Apple nor Verizon had revealed any figures about the CDMA - found iPhone 4 launch , so Thursday ’s proclamation was significant — particularly in light ofreports back in February of underwhelming sale . That ’s sure enough not the fount now — in its quarterly earnings report , Apple say the U.S. section of its iPhone clientele get 155 percent over last year ’s quarter .
Verizon may have also unwittingly give away some succeeding iPhone plans on Thursday . TheAssociated Press reportsthat Verizon main fiscal officer Fran Shammo severalise analyst during a quarter earnings call that Verizon ’s next iPhone would be a “ global ” version that work on wireless meshing outside the U.S. ( Few wireless internet outside of the U.S. use the CDMA standard . ) According to the AP , Shammo incriminate his caller would be on an “ adequate foothold ” with AT&T by and by this year . The Verizon executive declined to gloss further in a later interview , the AP report .
