‘Notable Calls’: Germany, France weaker iPhone markets than the UK
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 28, 2008 at 10:07am
Though German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom says it’s signed up 70,000 iPhone customers in the 11 weeks since Nov. 9, 2007, “this is well below expectations and seems to support Avian’s view that Germany and France are notably weaker iPhone markets than the UK,” according to Notable Calls.
The financial blogging site composed by an anonymous Wall Street professional had this to say: “T-Mobile is a big operator—it had more than 34 million subscribers at the end of September 2007. It’s worth noting that AT&T had roughly 63 million subscribers when it launched iPhone in late June 2007 – and activated 146’000 subscribers in less than 48 hours. Nobody expected German iPhone launch to match that performance – but considering T-Mobile has more than half of AT&T’s mobile subscriber base, the 11 week performance is stunningly weak. France Telecom announced earlier that it sold more than 70’000 iPhones between November 28 and January 10. One of the things that makes the T-Mobile number seem so curious is the common assumption that German consumers have a particularly robust appetite for high-end models with fancy new features.
“It took the British operator O2 until January to hit 200’000 activations of the iPhone – longer than most expected. Now operator partners of Apple in both France and Germany have come in below O2 – T-Mobile weakest of all.”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
