Thursday, May 1, 2008

iPhone Sales to Double?

Apple is going to sell lots more phones (no surprise there) if AT&T does subsidize the new 3G iPhones, says Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi, reported by Eric Savitz, Barrons columnist.

If AT&T does provide a $200 subsidy for the3G iPhone, bringing the phone’s cost for consumers down to about $200, where current models are priced at $399 and $499, sales might double, based on past precedent.

Sacconaghi notes that that sales of the Motorola RAZR doubled when its price dropped from $500 to $150 and doubled again when the price went to $100.

If AT&T average revenue per subscriber from the iPhone is in the mid-$90 a month range, compared to less than $60 for the average post-paid user, then AT&T has an additional $720 in revenue over the course of a two-year plan to offset the subsidy.

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