Verizon surpasses 500,000 4G LTE subscribers

By on Apr 21, 2011 at 2:33 PM
mobile April 21, 2011

Verizon Wireless confirmed that it has more than 500,000 subscribers using its 4G LTE network. The HTC Thunderbolt, which launched as Verizon’s first 4G LTE phone, is responsible for 260,000 of those subscriptions. The wireless carrier said that it added about 500,000 4G LTE customers this quarter in addition to the 65,000 early adopters who signed on in Q4. Big Red will continue to build out its 4G LTE device portfolio in the coming months. In addition to the HTC Thunderbolt and Samsung DROID Charge – announced on Thursday – it has plans to launch 4G support for the XOOM, an LTE version of the Samsung GALAXY Tab, and the Motorola DROID Bionic later this summer. It also currently offers three 4G LTE USB modems and two 4G LTE hotspot devices.

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  • Anonymous

    Yet there is no 3g coverage in my area a suburb of Buffalo NY. And people talk about AT&T.

    • http://twitter.com/DavisDarvish Davis Darvish

      dude you must live in butt fuck.. move close to the city.

      • Anonymous

        Lol lol lol

      • Anonymous

        Yet I have perfect 3G with AT&T. Yes butt fuck that’s how your mother like it.

      • Anonymous

        Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha…..

      • http://profiles.google.com/booboolala2000 Patrick Crumpler

        “like it”, so their mother is LIKE buttf*&k?

    • Anonymous

      Ha-Ha-Ha…. someone likes ‘BF’s'… Ha-Ha-Ha….

    • Bullet Tooth Tony

      Uhmm… where in the suburbs? You don’t even need to be specific. I’ll accept Northtowns and Southtowns as answers… because, quite simply, they are all 3G. Shit, you even get 3G pretty far into Canada before you start roaming. You can drive out to “butt fuck” like Davis says, and still have 3G… I went thru Attica the other day. What’s in Attica? Nothing to write home about other than a prison. 3G, full bars.

      Want to try again?

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget the LG Revolution, which is also coming soon and will be one of the first Android devices pre-loaded with Netflix!

  • http://twitter.com/adamjayreid Adam Reid

    So yesterday BGR posted a story of the Thunderbolt outselling the iPhone 4, yet today Verizon announced they sold 2.2 million iPhones but only 260k Thunderbolts. I never was good at math, but simply put, shit doesn’t add up…

    • delusion ftl

      Math: Iphone went on sale ~6 weeks earlier than the thunderbolt and approx 500K to 1m of the iphones were sold in the first couple days by pre-order.

      The current sell through rate of the thunderbolt is higher than the iphone, which is not surprising. If the tbolt was 150 instead of 250, I think you’d see it really take off.

      There’s a difference between what has been sold (especially counting in the pre-order iphone sales). And what is currently outselling one or another.

      • http://twitter.com/adamjayreid Adam Reid

        Well using your logic, the analogy is still lost. The Thunderbolt’s launch period should be compared with the iPhones launch period, what a old phone sells in comparison to the Android flavor of the week phone is a meaningless statistic. If that were the case we should have numbers of how the PSP-3000 is selling in comparison to the 3DS (which we don’t because that would be retarded).

      • http://profiles.google.com/booboolala2000 Patrick Crumpler

        The articles are about current sales rates not total sales, with the exception of this article. Those others were talking about a set periodof time and how many of each phones were sold during that snapshot. You should also realize the comparison of all models of iphone sales versus all models of android phones sold on verizon if you really want a comparison. Apple is free to make more than one form factor.

      • 1T2dirtnap

        Crumpler is correct, it’s a snapshot of that moment. But make no mistake about it the numbers DON’T add up! If you want to compare then compare the top selling Android phone to the latest iPhone. Actually if you really wan’t to compare then compare Google’s own phone to the iPhone if we’re truly honest about comparison. I’m sure the Android fan base wouldn’t like that at all. iOS beats Android by 59% according to comscore figures, that’s all iOS devices not just phones. If you broke it down, Android is the number one OS for phones. But, iPhone is the number one phone with nothing else even coming close. Even though you have 40+ Android devices on every carrier, with their own UI. lets try this, we’ll call them HTC Sense, Samsung TouchWiz and Motorola’s Blur. Lets say we split them apart and say they use the Android source code, but we don’t bundle them together as one Android OS because they modified the source code. See where I’m going with this and how ridiculous this can get? Because make no mistake this is the exact argument you would hear from Android fanboys were the tides reversed. Where iOS was open source and every OEM out there was using Apple’s iOS source code with their own overlay.

    • http://www.searingarrow.com AlienSix

      Taken from Droid-Life. Let me drop some knowledge on you

      One thing that has always irritated the hell out of me, was the ridiculous amount of sales comparisons that seem to be made between the current iPhone and whichever new Android device has just landed on the market. Why? Well, you have to remember that the iPhone and the sales of its 2 or 3 different versions get grouped together to form one giant number. You never hear that the 16GB model sold 40K units while the 32GB hit 100K. It’s always, “Verizon sold 2 million iPhones.”
      But when Verizon starts selling a DROIDX, DROID2 and Thunderbolt, we seem to break them all out as individual devices, which will of course lead to lesser numbers. After all, there are how many different Android handsets and on how many different carriers? And this is the reason we scoff off at most of these comparisons, because the real numbers should and have always been between Android activations and iPhones sold. And we all know who’s dominating that race.
      With that said, when you do actually hear of a single Android device putting our Apple counterpart to shame, it’s worth a quick mention because it’s quite the feat. According to a second report from another research firm (ITG), the HTC Thunderbolt has been outselling Verizon’s iPhone as consumers are looking for something “new” and of course fast. Hello LTE.

      *Note – Obviously we need to spell this out for the Apple fans who can’t seem to grasp how any of this works. The Thunderbolt has not outsold the iPhone in total sales, and how could it have? It’s been out a month less. The point is, that since the Thunderbolt was released, it has been outselling the iPhone. Rocket science, I know.

      • http://twitter.com/adamjayreid Adam Reid

        Thats really faulty logic. THOSE ARE ALL iPHONES!!! Storage capacity doesn’t make it a different phone. HAHAHAHAH, I cant believe you were proud of yourself for for that logic fail. As I mentioned before, the only numbers that can be analogous are launch numbers. Here are some launch numbers for you. One million, the number of iPhone 4s sold launch day on AT&T. 500,000, the minimum number given as an estimate for the VZW iPhone 4 one day sales. 260,000, the number of Thunderbolts sold since launch. Anything else is irrelevant. People are buying the Thunderbolt because they are rational consumers. CDMA 3g is slow as balls, LTE is blazing fast. You’d have to be a moron not to buy the LTE device. Even with that advantage they still havent approached the iPhones 1 day sales in over a month of availability. No matter how you try to spin it, no manufacturer can touch Apple.

        I may be an Apple fan, but unlike you I have an Android device and iOS devices. I don’t tie my identity to an ecosystem because I’m a rational consumer, not a fanboy. As such, when you try to convince me that the sales numbers of a product 10 months after the product launch are somehow relevant to a device one month after launch, I can laugh at you. And when you try to tell me that devices with different manufactures, different form factors, and different specifications should be lumped together since a singular company that lumps together a product that differs only in storage capacity, I can call a fanboy mental midget.

      • http://www.searingarrow.com AlienSix

        Oh Im a fanboy?

        Apparently I also dont own an iOS devices.

        Also I said that this was taken from Droid-Life, not my own personal wording

        Continue to believe as you want

      • Anonymous

        Lol. Is this what the android people need to feel better? Let’s try a little math here. Assuming that there were 400000 pre orders so 2.2 mill minus 400k = 1.8 mill divided by the 50 days the iPhone was on sale = 36000 per day avg. T-bolt sales were 260000 divided by the 14 days on sale = 18571 avg. With contracts ending every single day of the year we could assume these numbers are fairly steady but for arguments sake let’s say the iPhones numbers were high at the start and dipped to 24999 per day. If T-bolt sales were 25000 a day for 4 days then that’s 100000 leaving 16000 a day for the last 10 days. So I’m thinking either T-bolt sales were high for 4 days and are declining. Hence the reason for amazon dropping price to $129 or the 36000 per day vs the 18500 is correct and the T-bolt never actually did outsell the iPhone. Just my little spin on the whole situation. Either way. Feel free to enjoy your few days of new product launch success.

    • Anonymous

      Just so u know, the iPhone launched over a month and a half before the thunderbolt. So the article was stating the Thunderbolt sold more than the iPhone since its debut

      • Anonymous

        36 days. Feb 10 iPhone. March 17 T-bolt

  • Anonymous

    I know the dates haven’t been the same and other factors but how is the Thunderbolt outselling the iPhone with 2.2 million iPhones sold but only 500,000 LTE subscribers?

    • Anonymous

      Not everyone is in a 4g market that owns a thunderbolt?

      • Anonymous

        I don’t know. Maybe that’s possible but no one releases their number so we’re all left to wonder.

  • Anonymous

    Que Verizon 4G data plan price increase in 3, 2, 1…

    • phone head

      que me getting out of my contract free of charge 3,2,1

      • Jon

        You both spelled “queue” wrong.

      • http://profiles.google.com/booboolala2000 Patrick Crumpler

        Cue. LOL

      • Anonymous

        That’s cuz they have a low iQ…

      • anDROIDfan

        The most balanced statement here by far.

    • http://twitter.com/tarund TarunD

      First of all, it’s Queue, not Que. Second, Queue your arrogance shinning through. No, there is no countdown – it just shines all the time.

      If you actually read the press release for the DROID Charge, you would’ve seen the following:

      DROID Charge customers will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan and a 4G LTE data package. Nationwide Talk plans begin at $39.99 monthly access. Unlimited 4G LTE data packages start at $29.99 monthly access. Mobile Hotspot feature will be included for a limited time at no additional charge.

      Now, it’s possible that there could be tiered, LTE data packages coming but my logical guess is that won’t happen until Verizon has nationwide LTE coverage. So, the “price increase”, if applicable, won’t take place until middle of next year or later.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503037611 Brett Smith

        Actually it’s Cue in this example.

      • Anonymous

        Thanks for pointing out my incorrect word usage.

        I may be a bit cynical, but I find it hard to believe the carriers will not increase prices for faster service. I agree with you regarding the tiered plan coming soon, but making a snarky comment about prices seemed more appropriate than one about tiered plans.

      • anDROIDfan

        Sorry TarunD, but I’m going to have to go with Brett on this one.

  • life getter

    BGR please get off of Verizon’s nuts, 10 of your last 12 posts have been about Verizon. It’s a little obvious and ridiculous.

  • http://twitter.com/ajac09 Anthony Evans

    wonder how many people sprint has on 4g wimax now.

  • Tim

    has anyone else used that Samsung LTE Hotspot? I tried it for a week and a half. The first one constantly froze up and I returned it. The second one worked alright except after about 2 minutes I stopped getting incoming traffic. Email was not pushed or any kind of background incoming traffic came through. Verizon tech support told me they register the LTE devices onto a “protected IP pool” after a couple minutes and that breaks the incoming notifications. The 3G MiFi works great, so I’m guessing for the Thunderbolt they get notifications over the 3G connection? Maybe someday they will stop babying there fancy new network.

    • Anonymous

      It was probably hardware, the 3G Mifi is made by Novatel, and guess what, the 4g mifi is made by novate/, Samsungs hotspot is not

      • Cep42

        Its not the hardware, Its Verizon not have IP’s available. The novatel 4G Mifi is out. You cant get on to VPN’s with either of these.

  • Fillyo

    I will break it sown for you simpletons, or maybe you can find an app in the appstore to help you, since the release on March 17th, they have sold more Thunderbolts than Iphones, whether or not it means anything, who cares, its a correct statement as meaningless as it is. With that being said, I hope Verizon sells a shitload of everything, because I own stock.

    • Anonymous

      For this simpleton who did a little math it just doesn’t add up. 50 days on sale for iPhone. Feb 10 march 31 2.2 million sold. That’s 44000 a day avg. t-bolt 14 days march 17 to march 31 260000 sold that’s 18571 a day avg. While iphone had presales and early launch excitement are we to assume verizon sold 1.94 million iPhones the first 36 days then from march 17-31 only sold 260000? Yeah me being a simpleton unlike u should have trusted some dumbass researcher who called stores and asked the employee what phone was selling better. I guess I should not use common sense and math to come up with my own conclusion. I’m curious what the other research firm ITG did to come up with the same theory you did. Maybe they threw a handful of quarters against the wall and counted heads for t-bolt tails for iPhone. Probably fairly accurate huh?

  • http://twitter.com/du57in Dustin Earley

    Whatever happened to the Thunderbolt smashing on the iPhone on Verizon? 260,000 Thunderbolts VS 2.2 million iPhones? Really?

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