Verizon reports Q2 2012 earnings

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Android Central: Verizon activates more Android phones than iPhones in Q2

On the wireless side, which is the one we pay more attention to here, Verizon saw a 1.2 million net subscriber additions. Some 888,000 of those subscribers are of the traditional prepaid nature. Verizon now has a total of 94.2 million customers, 88.8 million of which are retail postpaid customers.

The really interesting numbers, though were the following:

• 50 percent of Verizon's postpaid base is smartphones, up 13 percentage points from this time last year.
• About 7 percent of smartphone owners upgraded their devices in the second quarter.
• For the quarter, 2.9 million Android phones were activated, 2.5 million of which were 4G LTE
• Activated 2.7 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 2.3 million a year ago

Engadget: Verizon issues Q2 earnings, touts $15.8 billion service revenues in Wireless

Engadget: Verizon: smartphones constitute 50 percent of our postpaid customer phone base