T-Mobile iPhone Sales Jam Company Stores in Washington, D.C.,
Elsewhere  By Wayne Rash  |  Posted 2013-04-12   The woman at
the Manassas, Va., T-Mobile store sounded frazzled. “We’re
slammed,” she said, and suggested that if I wanted to buy an
iPhone 5 from T-Mobile in the DC area, it might make sense to
make an appointment.  A salesperson at another T-Mobile store in
the Washington suburbs said that the store had to borrow line
management ropes and stands from a nearby Best Buy in order to
handle the crowds. Another store reported very strong sales; a
salesperson there said that he was dreading when everyone gets
off from work. “I don’t know what’s going to happen then. I hope
we’re ready.”  The sales staffs at the Washington-area T-Mobile
stores said that the fact that they were in an area served by
T-Mobile’s newly launched LTE seemed to spur a lot of sales.
“Everybody wants to know how fast the LTE is,” one salesperson
said. “All I know is that it’s really fast.”  At each store that
I contacted in the DC