AT&T Customers Want iPhone, Or Do They?

According to The Financial Times, AT&T (NYSE: T) has received expressions of interest in buying iPhones (Nasdaq: AAPL) from about one million customers. But, random expressions of interest do not translate into sales. The iPhone is expensive and untried.

Apple has said that it should sell 10 million iPhones in its first year, so an expression of interest from one million people is actually a crashing disappointment. What happened to 10 million calls?

Several AT&T Wireless competitors are planning to introduce rivals to the iPhone. Sprint (NYSE:S) will offer a product from Samsung that has a number of features including a full screen music player. And Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is cooperating with small phone software firm ZenZui to launch an interface to compete with the iPhone.

What did happen to those 10 million calls expressing interest in the iPhone?

Douglas A. McIntyre

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