AT&T paying Apple $325 per iPhone 3G? | One More Thing - CNET News.com
Basically Apple is getting $225 in subsidies payment plus $100 per new AT&T customer that signs up for the iPhone 3G. AT&T can afford this because they are moving all iPhone 3G customers to the more expensive $30 data plan than the standard $20.
Barron's Tech Trader Daily spotted a report from Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner that claims Apple will wind up getting just as much revenue from the subsidies as it did from the revenue-sharing agreement between Apple and AT&T that was in place before the introduction of the iPhone 3G last week. Reiner notes that this figure is far more than the typical $200 subsidy most carriers pay to reduce the price of other smartphones, and it's supplemented by a $100-per-new-subscriber bounty paid to Apple for each new AT&T customer that signs up in an Apple store.
Basically Apple is getting $225 in subsidies payment plus $100 per new AT&T customer that signs up for the iPhone 3G. AT&T can afford this because they are moving all iPhone 3G customers to the more expensive $30 data plan than the standard $20.