Sounds like Orange CEO Didier Lombard has a pretty good shot at meeting his goal. Before the iPhone’s launch last week, Lombard made estimates that Orange would sell between 50,000 to 100,000 iPhones before the end of the week.
Well, the first sales numbers have rolled in and according to Orange, in the first five days of availability, they moved almost 30,000 iPhones. That’s a heck of a lot of iPhones. In fact, at 135 grams per phone, that’s four metric tonnes of iPhones.
Orange said 80% of the customers bought the phone along with an Orange iPhone plan, while only 1,500 spent the extra €250 for an unlocked version of the iPhone. The remaining fifteen percent, it would seem, paid the €549 for a different kind of contract via Orange.
While we don’t have sales figures from O2 in the UK, T-Mobile claimed to have sold 10,000 on the first day of its launch, meaning that its sales could be around the same number. In the US Apple sold 270,000 in the first weekend of launch. Which, if you must know, is around 40 short tons or 36.45 metric tons. There’s your unit conversation quota for the day.
