Here are your daily Apple rumors and news items for Thursday: AT&Ts iPhone
Business Stays Strong: It seems silly now that investors were so worried that
Verizon s (NYSE: VZ ) support of the iPhone would spell the end of AT&T s (NYSE:
T ) iPhone business back at the beginning of 2011. AT&T activated more than 1
million iPhone 4Ses in the past week, according to a Thursday report at Apple
Insider . Thats in addition to the companys total 2.7 million iPhone activations
over the previous quarter. Apple s (NASDAQ: AAPL ) device remained the leading
handheld for AT&Ts entire mobile operation, but total activations fell over the
previous quarter when AT&T activated 3.6 million iPhones. (Its likely the dip
was caused by consumers waiting for the new iPhone to release in October.) Still
trying to push 4G service on a consumer base that doesnt know what 4G means ,
AT&T in a press release credited its iPhone 4S success to claiming to be the
only carrier to offer the new model with 4G speeds. Regional Mobile Provider
Supports iPhone 4S: That faint sound you could hear murmuring between Apple
reporting earnings Wednesday and AT&T reporting earnings Thursday was the sound
of T-Mobile USA crying. While the countrys fourth-place telecom was passed over
as an official supporter for Apples latest iPhone, C Spire was not. Who is C
Spire? C Spire, formerly Cellular South, is a regional telecom serving less than
1 million subscribers in and around Mississippi. According to a Wednesday report
at CNN , Apple made C-Spire the United States fourth official iPhone 4S carrier
this week . Yankee Group analyst Tole Hart believes Apple made the decision to
gain iPhone users in rural communities that previously have had greater access
to Android phones on regional networks. Samsung Outsold iPhone in Third Quarter:
Apple shipped just more than 17 million iPhones during the third quarter,
disappointing Wall Street analysts that were expecting between 18 million and 21
million units sold for the period. One smartphone manufacturer did post those
numbers, though, according to a Wednesday report in The Wall Street Journal . A
person familiar with the situation told the WSJ that Samsung (PINK: SSNLF )
shipped 20 million smartphones during the quarter that ended in September.
Samsung also beat out Nokia (NYSE: NOK ) to become the second-leading smartphone
manufacturer (in terms of revenue), trailing Apple, in the world. As of this
writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named
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