iPhone Verizon Wireless

iPhone Verizon Wireless

It May lose customers like Verizon Wireless began selling Apple Inc's iPhone s, so that enterprise customers a new alternative to Android OS smartphones.

Verizon plans to announce today in New York in order to bring the iPhone to its network, according to a person familiar with the matter. An iPhone Missing Verb about 2 million Android phone shipments cannibalizes one year, said Dan Hays, a partner at PRTM Management Consultants. Gartner Inc., said it sold 20.5 million phones in the third quarter of Android.
"Many people who Android phones instead of buying the iPhone because they could not buy one on the Verizon network," said Charlie Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co. in New York.

AT & T Inc. - now the exclusive carrier of the United States, the iPhone -. The unit accounted for 80 percent of the purchases of mobile phones in the third quarter, "said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos. In Minneapolis decide if these signs, many Verizon Wireless customers the iPhone in the devices based on Android., existing Verizon Android users are changing, he said, estimates that at least a half can opt for the iPhone.
Apple ships about 9 million iPhones this year through a partnership with Verizon, Munster predicted. It's more than 11 million units of AT & T. It is estimated that AT & T shipped 15.6 million units last year.

While Apple has done, and keep a grip on phones that run Google's Android software offers a number of mobile phone manufacturers like Motorola Inc. Holdings mobility, and Samsung Electronics Co.

Sales in the first quarter

Android is a bestseller in the U.S., according to Concorde Inc., which represent 26 percent of the smartphone market in November, compared with 25 percent for the iPhone. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. was the first with more than 33 percent.

Terror Kuittinen, an analyst at MKM Partners LP, said that sales of Android phones from Verizon in the first quarter by half due to the introduction of Verizon's iPhone to be reduced. However, he does not expect the impact in the past because the company is expected to start promoting the trends in your network faster in the long run in the second quarter.
Several LTE compatible phones based on Android are planned for release in the first half. An iPhone in the LTE network may not be available until later, according to analysts, including Kuittinen.

"Pass most of the commercialization of LTE Android is" For the moment, Kuittinen said.

A victory over

Apple may help a better job than Google. More users want to switch to Verizon for a smartphone for the first time, said Carl Howe, an analyst at Yankee Group, a consulting firm in Boston. About 38 percent of AT & T customers who said a smart phone, compared with 30 percent of Verizon. Bills of iPhone users are about $ 120 per month compared to about $ 40 to $ 80 after a regular feature for users of telephone, Howe.

"If they are people who are currently on the phone to update, would be very great because of smartphone users pay much more," said Howe.

Google's employees do not immediately respond to requests for comment after hours of work.

Google would benefit AT & T launch Android to promote after losing its exclusivity with the iPhone, Kuittinen said. In the quarter, Motorola launched via AT & T smartphone Android-processor. Dual-core sports based suitable for a number of tasks are called simultaneously. The new phone is likely to promote strong, "he said.
AT & T reaction

"Now that AT & T's interest to more than what it previously, did not grow Android promote" Kuittinen said. "It is largely to the decline of Verizon."

AT & T has to keep lowering the price of the iPhone and upgrading its network to customers from switching from Verizon. The company reduced the price of the iPhone 3G, a generation behind the current $ 49 last week. The company has suffered from customer complaints about dropped calls and overwhelmed low-speed devices such as transport parts of its network.

Even if the iPhone software is on the rise in the U.S., the market share of the consumer to lose the world and abroad to phones based on the market of Android, "said Will Stofega, program director at the firm Research IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts.