02 sees more than 8,000 iPhone activations on first day
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 13, 2007 at 1:11pm
02, Apple’s exclusive wireless carrier in the UK, received more than 8,000 iPhone activations during the first day after the cellular handset hit store shelves, according to Ars technica. That’s several times higher than the company had originally projected for opening day.
It had expected more like 3,000 activations “so the early activation numbers came as a pleasant surprise and runs contrary to many reports this weekend that the launch was a flop in Europe,” Ars technica notes. Meanwhile, the Sunday Mirror says as many as 70,000 of the £269 communications devices were expected to be sold over the weekend as Apple, O2 and Carphone warehouse stores stayed open longer to cope with the demand. More than 400,000 are expected to be sold in Britain in the run up to Christmas and 10 million worldwide in 2008.
Meanwhile, T-Mobile, the iPhone carrier in Germany, has said that over 10,000 iPhones were sold there on the first day.
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