“About 40 percent of the roughly 1 million people who have asked AT&T Inc. about iPhone are not already wireless customers, the telephone company’s Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said on Tuesday,” Reuters reports.
The very brief report is here.
AT&T ought to send all of the other U.S. carriers defibrillators as a professional courtesy.
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Word up. I just want my July option calls to make me money so I can buy a few iphones.
That’s more than likely true as I am not a mobile phone user and I have been wanting more information on the iPhone. So yeah.
First time mobile phone users will be buying an iPhone? I find that hard to beleive, anyone in who doesn’t have a mobile phone in 2007 is either very old, very young or just plain un-technical. I just can’t see iPhone fitting that demo.
This is a baseless announcement. I enquired with ATT on the site after the announcement – I was never asked whether I had a phone, I just filled in the form with my name and e-mail address. They don’t know I’m on Sprint unless they have access to Sprint’s customer list – which I’m sure they don’t. So maybe 40 percent are not ATT customers.
@Pete
at last some common sense
@Pete
at last some common sense
@Pete
at last some common sense
@Pete
at last some common sense
In other words, people who are NOT locked into existing contracts… like so many FUDsters love to carp on and on about.
Ummm… said nothing about “first-time”. There are probably (like me) many people that might have a prepay phone or don’t feel a compelling need for a phone – now. US phone uptake is smaller in the US than other places, despite lower prices, especially compared to income. There’s still a lot of room in that market.
I think they mean, “they are not our mobile clients”
AT&T ought to send all of the other U.S. carriers defibrillators as a professional courtesy.
One of the best MDN Takes ever!!!!!!!!!
I don’t see how that can be true.
Common sense is not so common.
iPhone to target a previous unheard of 400,000?
I don’t beleive it.
It’s more like 400,000 that are not already AT&T customers or some sort of glitch. Perhaps hacked results?
We Mac users are good at inflating the numbers. ;P
“US phone uptake is smaller in the US than other places”
Wow moment.
Pete…
Oh really? Or perhaps there are some of us who don’t see a need to waste money every month to be available every waking moment. People have become slaves to their cell phones…. some of us just want to be left the f___ alone.
iPhone will appeal to the very old, very young and just plain un-technical. Of course, nobody will buy it for the very young, but the other two groups will jump on it.
Pete:
I do not have mobile phone, and I am not in any of your stereotype’s categories.
How about
1) I live in the boonies, so everyone’s coverage, and Cingular/ATT in particular, is poor to nonexistant.
2) I had a mobile phone – it was not a good value for money proposition to me.
3) I value my privacy – just because you want to talk to me does not mean that I want to talk to you. Send me an e-mail – I will respond when I want to.
For those of you not familiar with American English, “boonies” is short for “boondocks”. The online Mac dictionary definesthat as “rough, remote, or isolated country : we’re out here in the boondocks, miles from a telephone.
How appropriate!!!!
“common sense is not so common” uh that was Voltaire, not Oscar Wilde
“AT&T: 40% of the 1 million iPhone inquirers not mobile clients”
Further research shows that twenty percent are middle-age shut-ins growing mold in a recliner watching Dukes of Hazzard reruns with dysfunctional Life Alert monitors and the other twenty percent are government informants encased in cement.
Oscar, you biter.
Piss off. It’s the absinthe talking.
Question: If you have an existing contract with Cingular, will a wrap around contract be required to get an iPhone?
Can I plop down my money and buy an iPhone to go with my existing Cingular contract?
I called Cingular. If you have an existing contract, they will move you to a new contract with the iPhone and your two year handcuffs start once again.