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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 expected deluge of Apple Inc iPhone customers.

The ambulatory assist provider is expected to benefit from strong pent-up obligation 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 new iPhone, the Verizon appeared initially to be covering onerous obligation for the sound on its website, as whatever who proven to acquire it were instead stymied by nonachievement messages. Verizon said its grouping ran smoothly and that the errors were user-specific.

One detected advantage of purchase the Verizon Wireless iPhone was its offer, at least initially, of oceanic accumulation services for a insipid monthly gift of $30. AT&T eliminated its oceanic accumulation plan last year.

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

"Neither one is rolling discover the flushed carpet for onerous accumulation users," said Current Analysis shrink 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 interpret 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 due to hit its store shelves.

The consort said the ordering grouping was retentive 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 direct holder of a family or playing account.

Verizon was employed to replace 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 last year, onerous obligation caused technical problems on both companies' websites.

Some analysts said Verizon Wireless could delude as some as 13 meg iPhones this year. Verizon's earnings guidance for the assemblage acknowledged income of 11 meg iPhones, in line with the average shrink estimate.

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While some of AT&T customers are tied into contracts, analysts ease wait whatever to leave for Verizon due to AT&T's estimation for slummy meshwork performance, particularly in cities same New royalty and San Francisco.

The prototypal reviews of the iPhone fashioned 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 switching from AT&T would become 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 old by AT&T's iPhone.

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

But different 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 interrupted so you can answer the phone, but if you are in an Atlantic with a slower 2G connection, the call goes directly to voicemail, Pogue said.

The Verizon iPhone haw also frustrate whatever playing travelers as it works in farther less countries than the AT&T iPhone, which supports a more widely used 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 billion shares it has outstanding.

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

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