iPhone are responsible for almost 84% of AT & T smartphone sales last quarter

While the fine folks on Wall Street are bearish on Apple due to lower than expected sales of the iPhone, they are apparently ignoring the fact that the iPhone is train to become the most popular combination on every single American carrier where it is available. Recently, Verizon has released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 and revealed that the iPhone activations increased by 47%-year Apple smartphone made up 63% of all activations of smartphone during the recent holiday quarter.

And earlier today, AT & T has published its results for the fourth quarter of 2012 and touted the 8.6 million record-setting iPhone activation. AT & T was also very proud of the fact that 16% of these activations were new AT & T customers. At the same time, AT & T also pointed out that the quarter has seen the company reached a record in relation to the Android smartphone sales.

So the iPhone is selling surprisingly well on AT & T, but just how popular is it compared to the rest of AT & T stable smartphone devices?

Well, on the whole, AT & T sold a record 10.2 million of smartphones. Thus, while the total number of sales of the iPhone is of course a bit under 8.6 million activations, it goes without saying that the total number of sales of the iPhone is close enough. As a result, the iPhone this past quarter composed about 84% of all sales of smartphone on AT & T.

Then, when we take a look at the two biggest carriers in the United States, iPhone sales constitute the vast majority of the total smartphone sales. And to think that experts still think iPhone demand is decreasing at the hands of devices like the Galaxy S III.

TechCrunch adds:

... AT & T activated iPhones 8.6 million, compared with 6.2 million of Verizon, which means that combines the two U.S. carriers represented 14.8 million units, or around just a hair less than 31% of all iPhones sold worldwide by Apple during the quarter. AT & T is always number one in sales of the device, despite the fact that its monopoly on the iPhone is over Apple years ago.

In regards to the actual financial results of AT & T, the company recorded a loss of $0.68 per share, compared with a quarterly loss of $ 1.12 per share in the same quarter a year before.

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