Sprint Reports 1.4 Million iPhones Sold Last Quarter, 41% to New Customers

Sprint has reported its earnings for Q2, 2013 during which the company sold 1.4 million iPhones.

Sprint Corporation today reported Sprint Nextel’s second quarter 2013 results including record quarterly Sprint platform wireless service revenue of $7.2 billion and continued growth in Sprint platform postpaid subscribers. For the quarter, operating loss was $874 million and Adjusted OIBDA was $1.4 billion as Sprint continued to make significant investments in the business.

“This is a historic time for Sprint. We recently shut down the Nextel platform and completed the Clearwire, SoftBank and U.S. Cellular transactions. In the second quarter, we achieved record levels in Sprint platform postpaid subscribers, service revenue and postpaid ARPU, and increased our 4G LTE footprint,” said Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO. “Sprint pioneered unlimited voice, text and data in 2008, and we recently introduced the first lifetime guarantee, solidifying our commitment to the simplicity and peace of mind that unlimited brings.”


In the release, the company also reported iPhone sales.

Eighty-six percent of quarterly Sprint platform postpaid handset sales were smartphones, including approximately 1.4 million iPhones sold during the quarter. Forty-one percent of iPhone sales were to new customers.

Last quarter, the company sold 1.5 million iPhones, forty-three percent of which were to new customers.

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