Losing its longtime exclusive carrier standing with Apple has not slowed down iPhone sales one bit for AT&T. The company sold a record setting 9.4 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, which included 7.6 million iPhone activations and accounted for 20 percent of Apple’s quarterly handset sales.
The Hulk-like iPhone sales figures amounted to a remarkable 80-percent of all smartphones sold by AT&T, which were heavily influenced by the introduction of Apple’s iPhone 4S on October 14th.
AT&T beat their previous quarterly smartphone sales record of 6.1 million by an impressive 50 percent — up nearly 60 percent from the year-ago period. Though Android devices also set new sales records for the wireless carrier, it should be noted that iPhone snatched up a gargantuan piece of the pie despite going on sale two weeks into the quarter.
“Looking ahead, we start 2012 with the best visibility we’ve had in some time, and we’re well positioned to deliver solid results,” AT&T chairman and CEO, Randall Stephenson stated in a press release.
There's good reason for AT&T to be optimistic that this kind of success will continue into 2012, considering the imminent launch of iPhone 5 which is expected to be released by late summer.
According to new data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, iPhone has surpassed Android in US market share, based on the last 12 weeks of sales in 9 countries (including the US, UK, and Australia). The report puts iPhone's share at 44.9% while Android took 44.8% of the US market.
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