At&t just announced their 3rd quarter and according to the mobile company the numbers weren’t that great. Now not to put blame on anyone but At&t blames Apple for the bad numbers. They say that due to lack of iPhone 5’s on shelves and high demand customers may have gone else where to get their iPhone 5 fix. Not sure why At&t would blame Apple since the cellular company also cell other mobile devices that aren’t Apple. At&t relied too much Apple for customers which may have caused the issue.
AT&T said the shortage of iPhones meant that most of them went to people who were already AT&T customers. Only 18 percent of the 4.7 million iPhones it activated in the quarter went to new subscribers, the lowest number yet.
AT&T suggested that it suffered in comparison to Verizon because it launched its new data-sharing plans later in the quarter. Verizon launched “Share Everything” just before the start of the quarter and said it prompted people to add lots of extra devices to their plans. AT&T waited until August to introduce “Mobile Share” and was less aggressive about it. At Verizon, “Share Everything” was the only choice available to new customers, while AT&T kept its old plans alongside the new one.
