Om Malik on the iPhone’s Importance to AT&T

Om Malik, on AT&T’s quarterly results:

In the third quarter, the company added 2 million new wireless subscribers to reach a total of 81.6 million. Further, some 4.3 million 3G-integrated devices were added to the AT&T network, of which the iPhone accounted for 3.2 million activations.

Three out of every four new 3G devices added to AT&T’s network for the quarter were iPhones.

★ Thursday, 22 October 2009