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AT&T: 40 percent of iPhone sales are to business users
A customer looks over the Apple iPhone 3GS at the company's retail store in San Francisco, California June 19, 2009.
Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith
NEW YORK |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Thursday that 40 percent of its iPhone sales since the beginning of the year have been to business customers, suggesting that the phone is encroaching on an area dominated by Research in Motion's BlackBerry.
AT&T also generates almost half of its total revenue from business customers, said Ron Spears, the head of the company's business services, at an investor conference.
The company would not say how many iPhones it sold during that period.
Analysts estimate that AT&T, which started selling iPhone in 2007, has about 15 million iPhone users or 17 percent of its total customer base. RIM reported a total customer base of about 41 million for the BlackBerry in its most recent quarterly report.
Comparing those numbers is difficult, however, because AT&T serves U.S. customers, while RIM's customer base includes the United States and other countries.
This includes wireless and wireline services and would imply business revenue of almost $62 billion revenue for 2010, based on analyst expectations for 2010 total revenue of $124 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
In 2009, the company said that its wireline service revenue from business customers was about $40 billion out of total revenue of about $123 billion.
AT&T shares were up 41 cents or 1.7 percent to $24.54 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Sinead Carew. Editing by Robert MacMillan)
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I have been an iphone user since its inception. AT&T asks us to provide our corporate email address so we can be elegible for a discount. Considering how expensive the iphone plan is any user would welcome any discount available to them (iphone = 7%) Being part of this discount program automatically makes you a business customer in AT&T’s database.
My corporation does not allow iphones on the network as they do not pass corporate security guidelines. I know a bunch of other people that own iphones and are in the same predicament. These people work for companies like Deloitte,Pricewater House Coopers, Ernst and Young, Goldman Sachs, IBM etc
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There is a far greater responsibility here when you start to think in which direction these companies will be directing our children and vulnerable family membersvia GPS.
A new set of listings HAS to be used.
How many times have you found the search result you were looking for when on your computer at home or work? How many results do you receive that have been paid for? How many times do you receive results that are very remotely close to the subject you were searching for?
Now factor in GPS – you are in a new town and need something, so you search via Smartphone. All the above problems will appear; this is why GPSLocals are investing time and money to ensure user safety as well as updated information that has been validated, confirmed and checked out.
We are not in competition with the likes of Google, Yahoo or any search engine, we are not in competition with any phone manufacturer or “APP” developer.
GPSLocals have clearly stated we are happy to share our listings FOR FREE.
This way we can ALL use GPS enabled devices securely with the knowledge that the information is correct.
if only 40% of AT&T where business this means the “other” 60% users are the public…..
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