Verizon’s iPhone 4 activations slow significantly in Q2

By on Jul 22, 2011 at 9:00 AM
mobile July 22, 2011

Activations of Apple’s popular iPhone 4 handset slowed significantly at Verizon Wireless last quarter. The nation’s No. 1 carrier reported its second-quarter earnings early Friday morning, at which time it revealed its latest iPhone numbers. Verizon Wireless activated 2.3 million iPhone 4 units in its June quarter for an average of just under 177,000 phones each week. In the first quarter, Verizon Wireless activated 2.2 million iPhones, but the device had been available for just seven weeks in the quarter. During that period, the carrier was activating an average of more than 315,000 devices each week. It stands to reason that iPhone 4 sales would slow following the device’s debut with the carrier, but this 44% drop off is a bit steep for the single most popular smartphone on the planet. AT&T announced on Thursday that it activated 3.6 million iPhones in the June quarter, but the carrier does not separate iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS activations so there is no basis for comparison.

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  • Anonymous

    How is this a victory to android user when they sold 2.2 million phones..this phone is over a year old…what phone can sell like this and be that old? NONE, wait till September…

    • serpentor

      Cuz when iPhone was about to drop on VZW apple fanboys were predicting the death of Droid sales.

      That didn’t happen.

      • Anonymous

        I’m not an iPhone fanboy, all I’m saying is that having a old phone and selling it to the consumers

      • Jobr

        and it was, at least 2.3 million potential droid users opted for the year old iPhone.  Learn to think

  • Mikepc2fla

    If Verizon would pay the reatilers better for selling them this might change.

  • Anonymous

    I support the right for iPhone users to get married.  

  • Anonymous

    It is probably because those 34% iphone 4 users who mistakenly thought that they were getting a 4G phone before to take advantage of Verizon’s superfast LTE.. now educating others about how it is not so.. and plus people probably reading the article that brought it to light. Iphone users are finally getting smarter.. and that is only sad news for apple.

    • Anonymous

      Read the article? The majority of consumers don’t read tech blogs.

  • The Man

    It’s because of the compensation for sales people… and the announcement of the 5

  • Anonymous

    Cause their are more DROIDS being sold on Verizon than the Iphone 4. Even if Sprint or T-Mobile gets it it will still sell very slowly cause ANDROID is on every carrier and Iphone 4 is only on two.

  • Anonymous

    Cause their are more DROIDS on Verizon being sold than the Iphone 4. Even if it comes to Sprint or T-Mobile it will still sells slow. Android is on every carrier and Iphone 4 is only on two which kinda sad that it’s selling so slowly while Android takes OVER

  • P51d007

    It’s a little something called SATURATION.
    Everyone that wanted an iPhone, HAS one.  Until the next iPhone is released,
    look for activations to slow even more.
    And we all know, apple will hype it up, and the masses of drones will follow ;)

  • Anonymous

    Maybe people are like me and waiting for the iPhone 5

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