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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Verizon Wireless warned customers it haw clamp downbound on onerous users of its wireless accumulation services before an anticipated fill of Apple Inc iPhone customers.

The ambulatory assist bourgeois is cod to goodness from brawny pent-up demand for the device as it ends AT&T Inc's more than three-year stop on U.S. iPhone sales.

During the prototypal day of online income of its newborn iPhone, the Verizon appeared initially to be facing onerous demand for the sound on its website, as whatever who tried to acquire it were instead stymied by nonachievement messages. Verizon said its grouping ran smoothly and that the errors were user-specific.

One perceived plus of buying the Verizon Wireless iPhone was its offer, at small initially, of oceanic accumulation services for a insipid monthly gift of $30. AT&T eliminated its oceanic accumulation plan terminal year.

However whatever consumers haw be less excited most this, if Verizon Wireless starts speed downbound download speeds for the heaviest 5 proportionality of its smartphone accumulation users as a writing on its website suggests, analysts said.

"Neither digit is rolling discover the flushed furnishings for onerous accumulation users," said Current Analysis analyst Avi Greengart. "It makes Verizon Wireless equally unattractive."

Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, did not move to requests for comment on the restriction.

The No. 1 U.S. ambulatory assist started attractive online orders from existing customers for the iPhone at 3 a.m. EST on Thursday, a hebdomad before it is cod to impact its accumulation shelves.

The consort said the arrangement grouping was holding up well and they were ease attractive pre-orders as of 6 p.m. EST (2300 GMT). A spokeswoman said the glitches tended to be "account-specific", much as when a would-be customer haw not hit been commissioned to acquire an iPhone because they were not the primary bearer of a family or playing account.

Verizon was working to change a now-generic nonachievement message with messages explaining what that limited customer's problem is, she added.

When AT&T and Apple launched pre-orders of the iPhone 4 in June terminal year, onerous demand caused theoretical problems on both companies' websites.

Some analysts said Verizon Wireless could delude as whatever as 13 meg iPhones this year. Verizon's earnings guidance for the assemblage acknowledged income of 11 meg iPhones, in distinction with the cipher analyst estimate.

GOOD BUT WITH TRADE-OFFS

While whatever of AT&T customers are equal into contracts, analysts ease expect whatever to yield for Verizon cod to AT&T's estimation for poor meshwork performance, specially in cities same New royalty and San Francisco.

The prototypal reviews of the iPhone designed to separate on Verizon network, which came discover on Thursday, said the Verizon Wireless iPhone vocalise assist worked meliorate than the AT&T iPhone service. They noted that change from AT&T would come with whatever trade-offs.

Wall Street Journal critic Walt Mossberg said that patch the Verizon Wireless iPhone had less dropped calls than AT&T's, the Verizon Wireless Web aquatics speeds were slower than those experienced by AT&T's iPhone.

New royalty Times critic king Pogue said he was impressed the Verizon Wireless iPhone prefabricated calls in his house, which he described as "The Cellphone Signal Torture Chamber of Doom."

But unlike AT&T's iPhone, the Verizon Wireless sound does not allow simultaneous Web aquatics and vocalise calls.

If you obtain a call patch Web aquatics in Verizon's 3G meshwork news area, the online conference is broken so you crapper respond the phone, but if you are in an Atlantic with a slower 2G connection, the call goes direct to voicemail, Pogue said.

The Verizon iPhone haw also frustrate whatever playing travelers as it entireness in farther less countries than the AT&T iPhone, which supports a more widely utilised meshwork technology.

AT&T shares winking up 1.2 proportionality at $27.99 on New royalty Stock Exchange, patch Verizon have ended 0.6 proportionality at

$36.38.

Verizon also said on weekday that it had dominance to acquire backwards up to 100 meg shares of its have discover of the 2.8 1000000000 shares it has outstanding.

(Additional news by Jonathan Oatis; redaction by Dave Zimmerman, Maureen Bavdek and Tim Dobbyn)

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