{"id":654020,"date":"2013-04-23T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=633689"},"modified":"2013-04-23T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T20:50:01","slug":"att-sells-6m-smartphones-in-q1-accounting-for-9-out-of-10-device-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654020","title":{"rendered":"AT&T sells 6M smartphones in Q1, accounting for 9 out of 10 device sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you might expect, AT&T saw its growth drop off considerably in Q1 compared to the always blockbuster holiday quarter<\/a>, but it didn\u2019t do too shabby. It posted a net increase of 291,000 new subscribers, sold a first-quarter record 6 million smartphones and even saw a surprising uptick in connected tablet sales.<\/p>\n

Per usual, the iPhone was a big driver of its smartphone performance, accounting for 4.8 million activations.\u00a0AT&T added 365,000 tablets to postpaid plans in the quarter, and increased the overall number of smartphones connected to its network by 1.2 million. At the end of March, 72 percent of AT&T\u2019s contract phone customers now owns smartphone, and nearly nine of ten new phones purchased sports an smartphone OS.<\/p>\n

Financially, AT&T\u2019s revenues were down 1.5 percent year over year to $31.4 billion due to the sale of its advertising business, but its net profit ticked up by $100 million to $3.7 billion.<\/p>\n

AT&T\u2019s major pain point was in its prepaid business. It lost 184,000 prepaid subscribers, but Ma Bell said many of losses came from prepaid tablet users, many of which have switched over to its shared data plans. About 14 percent of 10 million of AT&T\u2019s contract subscribers are now on such shared data plans. For each shared account, customers typically connect three devices, AT&T said.<\/p>\n

We will update this post as we get more information.<\/em><\/p>\n

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