Sprint sold 1.8M iPhones in holiday quarter, 40% to new subscribers

Sprint, the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., announced on Wednesday that it sold 1.8 million iPhones in the fourth quarter of 2011, with 40 percent of those to new subscribers.

Sam Oliver 14 years ago 33

Massive holiday quarter pushes iPhone sales past Android in US

Apple's share of smartphones sold in the U.S. doubled in the fourth quarter of 2011, pushing iPhone sales just past the myriad of devices that run Google's Android platform.

Katie Marsal 14 years ago 73

Verizon's 4.2M Q4 iPhone activations were more than half of its smartphones

Verizon on Tuesday revealed its quarterly earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011, in which it sold 7.7 million smartphones, 4.2 million of which were iPhones.

Neil Hughes 14 years ago 31

Briefly: HTC profits drop 26%, Sprint reshuffles business, Motorola misses earnings

HTC posted its first quarterly profit decline in two years, as Sprint reorganizes its business structure in efforts to streamline operations and Motorola warns of dismal fourth quarter results amid a proposed Google buyout.

Mikey Campbell 14 years ago 0

Briefly: Sprint throttling top 1%, Barnes & Noble may separate Nook business, UK Premier League [u]

Sprint revealed that it throttles about 1% of smartphone users who excessively use data while roaming, while Barnes & Noble is reportedly mulling the separation of its Nook line to outside investors and Apple pulls out of running for TV rights to the U.K.'s Premier League.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 16

Apple headlines 8 of WSJ's 10 most-read corporate articles in 2011

Apple came up as a frequent hot topic in business news this year, as evidenced by the fact that eight of the ten most-read corporate articles from The Wall Street Journal in 2011 were about the company and its co-founder Steve Jobs.

Josh Ong 14 years ago 5

US Cellular waiting for Apple to release LTE iPhone

U.S. Cellular has indicated that it is waiting for a "cutting edge" LTE iPhone before making a decision on whether to begin carrying Apple's smartphones.

Josh Ong 14 years ago 17

Consumer Reports ranks Verizon best, AT&T worst among US carriers

Consumer Reports on Tuesday revealed the results of its annual survey of US carriers, which found Verizon ranking highest and AT&T coming in last among America's four largest wireless providers.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 52

Class-action Carrier IQ suit targets Apple, HTC, Samsung, carriers & more

Apple is one of a laundry list of companies that have been targeted in a new class-action lawsuit over the Carrier IQ software data logging controversy.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 63

Inside iPhone 4S US mobile data: AT&T vs Sprint vs Verizon

Apple now sells iPhones that work on three of the top four national US mobile carriers. Here's a look at how well you can expect Apple's latest smartphones to work on each of these mobile data networks, based on real world testing of each carrier's data throughput.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 116

Carrier IQ data logging controversy prompts scrutiny from US Senate

Extensive data logging software known as "Carrier IQ" has been discovered to be secretly running on many mobile phones, including a number of handsets powered by Google Android, prompting one U.S. senator to demand answers from the company.

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 98

Apple pulls iTether from iPhone App Store [u]

A new iOS application that allows users to tether their Mac or PC to an iPhone 3G data connection without paying a carrier for the ability was pulled from the iPhone App Store on Tuesday [updated].

AppleInsider Staff 14 years ago 91

FCC chairman finds AT&T, T-Mobile merger not in public interest, seeks hearing

AT&T's proposed acquisition of competitor T-Mobile has been found by the FCC's chairman to be anticompetitive and not in the public interest, asks commissioners to vote for administrative hearing.

Mikey Campbell 14 years ago 29

iPhone 4S carrier performance study finds no clear victor

A new study testing data speed, call reliability and voice quality, web browsing and video performance of Apple's iPhone 4S on the three major US carriers finds that AT&T's data speeds are the fastest, while Verizon takes the crown for having the least dropped calls.

Mikey Campbell 14 years ago 25

iPhone 4S demand continues to overwhelm US carriers a month after launch

Wireless carriers in the U.S. continue to struggle to keep up with demand for Apple's iPhone 4S more than a month after the handset first went on sale.

Sam Oliver 14 years ago 23

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