La compañia de telefonos Sprint llega a un acuerdo con Apple por la compra de 30.5 millones de iPhones por los proximos 4 años
Sprint le apuesta a todo en una transaccion que le puede reportar a apple 20 billones de dolares.
Sprint tiene alrededor de 52 millones de suscriprores al final del segundo cuarto de este año. Verizon tiene alrededor de 106 millones suscriptores y AT&T tiene alrededor de 99 millones.
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Such a bold move could be worth it if the iPhone finds success on Sprint’s network and attracts more subscribers, as it has on Verizon and AT&T. But if Sprint can’t sell all of the iPhones it has agreed to purchase, the deal could spell disaster for the No. 3 U.S. carrier.
“This is a bet-the-company kind of thing,” a person familiar with the news told the WSJ.
Even if Sprint manages to find buyers for all of its iPhones, it will still have to subsidize every unit by $500 to offer them at the low prices consumers expect. It will take a while for Sprint to recover that cost, the WSJ says, despite the expensive subscription plans that iPhone users adopt.