iPhone...Fastest Selling of all Time!!!

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O2 CEO Peter Erskine claims Apple's iPhone has been the fastest selling device his mobile network has ever seen.

Actual sales figures of the hotly-touted Apple mobile remain unknown, though Erskine told The Times newspaper that "tens of thousands" of iPhones sold across the launch weekend.


An additional report in the Sunday Mirror claimed that 70,000 iPhones were sold across the launch weekend. That report cited an unnamed O2 spokesman.

"Demand has exceeded our expectations and we believe it will be the fastest selling mobile ever," the spokesman said. "We've hundreds of thousands of devices to sell and we are extremely happy with how things have gone."

O2 expects to sell "a couple of hundred thousand" iPhones over Christmas and New Year.

Speaking to the Times, Erskine also revealed that approximately: "Two-thirds of iPhone customers are new to O2," meaning the company has succesfully stolen subscribers away from competing networks.

Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse have so far declined to offer detailed sales figures for the iPhone in the UK market, and local media reports have been mixed, with some claiming the launch a failure while others observe queues and steady traffic at most major stores belonging to the three firms.

The rush to buy iPhones saw foot visitors at O2 stores increase to three times the traffic generated in the same weekend last year.