Don Reisinger for Cnet:

As one might expect, Apple’s iPhone proved quite popular on Sprint’s service, with 1.5 million of those devices activated during the first quarter. According to Sprint, 44 percent of those activations went to new customers.

With 4.3 million phones activated on AT&T and about 3 million activated by Verizon, Sprint is by far the smallest iPhone reseller of the major US carriers. Forty-four percent of those iPhone activations on Sprint’s network went to new customers, though, which must make the company’s executives pretty happy.