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05-07-2008, 06:14 PM
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I'm crackin' skulls
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Location: Melbourne
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Originally Posted by Reubania
Take with a grain of salt. Optus has ordered $1,000,000 worth of iPhones. It does translate roughly to be about 40-50,000 handsets. Information was told by an Optus employee who is working closely to the project.
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Let's think about that number for a second. If $1 million buys 50,000 handsets then that's a wholesale price of $20 per iPhone. I don't think so.
Even at a more reasonable estimate of $500 wholesale, that $1 million figure would mean only 2,000 iPhones ordered. Again, I don't think so.
The actual dollar figure Optus has spent on iPhones has a couple more zeroes attached. |
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05-07-2008, 06:39 PM
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LOL. You're right. It was missing another '0'
My apologies. |
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05-07-2008, 06:51 PM
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Location: Sydney
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Has anyone considered why Optus stopped taking deposits for the iPhone? They stated they were overwhelmed by the number of people wanting an iPhone.
My point is that if they had access to heaps of stock, why didn't they just keep taking deposits? Surely any business would be thrilled to take advance orders if they could support it.
Unfortunately I think they are only going to have enough iPhones to cover the 14,000 deposits they accepted.
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05-07-2008, 06:52 PM
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is anyone going to Line up at the Optus World in the Perth CBD??
Ill share my warm milo with joo
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05-07-2008, 07:16 PM
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there was a report that apple has ordered over 3,000,000 iPhones for the launch period from appleinsider so lets hope that aust gets a good chunk (3,000,000 / 22 countries = 136,363.636)
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05-07-2008, 07:18 PM
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Location: Brisbane
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Originally Posted by darksplat
there was a report that apple has ordered over 3,000,000 iPhones for the launch period from appleinsider so lets hope that aust gets a good chunk (3,000,000 / 22 countries = 136,363.636) |
Haha, yeah because they're really going to get handed out evenly.
More than half will go to the states, guaranteed.
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05-07-2008, 07:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by darksplat
there was a report that apple has ordered over 3,000,000 iPhones for the launch period from appleinsider so lets hope that aust gets a good chunk (3,000,000 / 22 countries = 136,363.636) |
Maybe it was 3,000,000 i saw...im pretty sure i read somewhere 8,000,000 have been made...
EDIT: 8,000,000 seems to much really |
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05-07-2008, 07:30 PM
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for the first week or so aust would need approx 50,000. 20,000 each to voda and optus and 10,000 to telstra. Now why do you ask well both voda and optus committed first and its public opinion is higher than telstras, yes telstra might have more coverage but the people out in the country/regional areas are really struggling by the other means like petrol/diesel other transport related costs, food, drink, rates, services, wages etc you get my point. so its metro to the rescue for the telcos, as this is were the money is really flowing by demographic plus where the coverage is for voda and optus.
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05-07-2008, 07:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by darksplat
for the first week or so aust would need approx 50,000. 20,000 each to voda and optus and 10,000 to telstra. Now why do you ask well both voda and optus committed first and its public opinion is higher than telstras, yes telstra might have more coverage but the people out in the country/regional areas are really struggling by the other means like petrol/diesel other transport related costs, food, drink, rates, services, wages etc you get my point. so its metro to the rescue for the telcos, as this is were the money is really flowing by demographic plus where the coverage is for voda and optus.
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Thats Australia wide, i dont think that would be enough...maybe just lower than 100k would be good.. |
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05-07-2008, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Spartan
Thats Australia wide, i dont think that would be enough...maybe just lower than 100k would be good..
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I hope so personally  
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05-07-2008, 07:39 PM
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Okay, why don't we work this out? I'm making a numbers document with all the populations, then I'll get a couple of percentages, so we can estimate. 
Will post it soon. |
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05-07-2008, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by darksplat
I hope so personally |
So does the rest of Australia hehe...i hope we have enough
I dont want to wait a whole month without and iphone (seeing as my old one doesnt really work properly  )
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Originally Posted by Edd
Okay, why don't we work this out? I'm making a numbers document with all the populations, then I'll get a couple of percentages, so we can estimate.
Will post it soon. |
Sounds good  |
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05-07-2008, 07:44 PM
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6 days to go...its starting to get verry painfull ..waiting for it ..
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05-07-2008, 07:47 PM
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its no leak
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Originally Posted by bengrubb
I haven't I suspect a leak.
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he says in the post:
" Here's a snazzy table NeoRicen whacked up to try and untangle the plan complexity"
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05-07-2008, 07:48 PM
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Location: Wollongong
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Quote:
Originally Posted by brandon
Has anyone considered why Optus stopped taking deposits for the iPhone? They stated they were overwhelmed by the number of people wanting an iPhone.
My point is that if they had access to heaps of stock, why didn't they just keep taking deposits? Surely any business would be thrilled to take advance orders if they could support it.
Unfortunately I think they are only going to have enough iPhones to cover the 14,000 deposits they accepted.
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They seriously got 14000 people signing up in a little under 24 to 48 hours?
Thats a lot of people - an enormous take up rate for something as boring as a mobile handset (to anyone but us). Hopefully a portion of them may indeed intend to go with vodafone in the end.
I'm sticking with Optus unless Telstra is seriously amazing (which I will doubt) Voda doesn't have 3G coverage in my area. |
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