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Rogers banks 255,000 iPhone users in Q3 2008

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 2:32 PM

There’s nothing better than having cash in the bank. Unless you banking new wireless subscribers into multi-year wireless contracts – post-paid wireless subscribers are better than cash because they add to a network operator’s cash-hoard every single month. In that vein, Rogers Canada is banking some serious… subscribership.

Rogers has announced that they sold 255,000 iPhone 3G smartphones in Q3 2008 alone. The number is far short of the total number of iPhone 3G‘s sold worldwide, and is eclipsed by AT&T’s iPhone 3G sales in Q3 2008, but a quarter-million smartphones sold is no small feat. And, with 193,000 net post-paid subscriber additions to Rogers’ network, it looks like Canada’s premier GSM carrier is doing quite well for themselves.

Which raises the question – why does Rogers need to cut down on dealer commissions? That’s right, we just went there.

[Via: MobileSyrup]

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Bill

    But if you read the Rogers press release, they were obligated to warn their investors (in about 12 different places in the press release)

    that they lost a massive amount of profit in the quarter in order to subsidize the cost of the iphones. Same thing happened to

    AT&T in their earnings results last week. It seems like the only one making any money is Apple and Rogers and AT&T are left to

    believe that they will make up for the losses over the next 5 years based on higher data plan charges and higher retention.

    How much do you want to bet that Apple will figure out another way to screw them before they make back half of these losses. Oh how

    painful it is to be caught within the distortion field!