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Articles tagged with: Arpu and Verizon Wireless
Verizon Communications Quarterly Profit up 5.3%
Verizon Communications has reported that its first-quarter revenues jumped 11.6 percent to US$26.6 billion, compared with the first quarter 2008 - largely thanks to the acquisition of Alltel earlier this year. Excluding the Alltel boost, revenues would have grown by 3.3 percent. more
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Verizon Profits Rise as Wireless Growth Starts to Slow
US based Verizon Communications has reported a rise in its fourth-quarter profits, although growth in its wireless subscriber base slowed even as landline subscribers continued to shut-down their accounts. The firm recorded a quarterly profit of US$1.2 billion compared to US$1.1 billion a year ago - on sales of US$24.6 billion (compared to US$23.8 billion a year ago). more
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US Wireless Growth Won't Be Stopped by Weak Economy
A Strategy Analytics report is predicting that US cellular subscriber growth will remain strong despite the economic situation, although growth levels will scale back slightly from 2008. US cellular service revenues will also continue to grow, albeit at a slower growth rate of 3.9%, down from 7.5% in 2008. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, analytics, smartphone, t-mobile-usa, ict, itu, smartphones, metropcs, leap-wireless, lte, strategy-analytics, verizon, alltel, mobile-broadband, us-cellular, USA
U.S. Telecom and Cable Credit Profiles to Weaken in 2009
Debt ratings agency, Fitch has issued a report where it says it believes that growing event risk associated with economic, competitive and regulatory pressures will weaken the credit profile of most operators within the U.S. telecommunications and cable sector in 2009. Growing unemployment, continuing home foreclosures, the acceleration of cord-cutting, evolution of wireless smart-phone-based data services, and a changing regulatory environment with a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) make-up and key regulatory programs up for reform represent some of the challenges to the industry in 2009. more
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Alltel: Ahead of the market - and Verizon Wireless
The United StatesĂ' fifth largest wireless carrier, Alltel, has outpaced the market for the second successive quarter in Q2 2008, registering customer growth of 2.4%, up from 1.5% in 2007. At first glance the result might appear to be true as a sole result of Sprint NextelĂ's worsening fortunes, as the US number three recorded its fourth successive net loss of connections in the three month period to June. However, whilst this is a factor, none of the other three large operators came up to scratch in Q2 as far as Alltel was concerned, with Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile only managing growth of 2.2% and AT&T 2.1%. The total base ended Q2 08 at 13.49m. more
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US Small Operators Q2 - Customer Growth Falls but Mixed Results for ARPU
The US market has undergone some consolidation recently, but there remain seven operators with between 250k and 10m subscribers. The largest of these is US Cellular, which finished Q2 08 with 6.19m subscribers. Three others had more than 1m customers: MetroPCS (4.60m), Leap (3.31m) and Centennial (1.09m). Qwest, which recently started selling Verizon Wireless plans having terminated its contract with Sprint, had 0.81m at the end of the quarter. Finally, regional players Cincinnati Bell and Ntelos had 0.58m and 0.43m respectively. more
Related Tags: metropcs, verizon, qwest, us-cellular, seven, bell, ntelos, cincinnati-bell, USA
Clearwire Aims for 31 Million WiMAX Subscribers by 2017
US WiMAX operator, Clearwire - which has been formed from the merger of the Clearwire and Sprint Nextel divisions expects to have some 1.3 million subscribers by the end of 2009 and 4.6 million by the end of 2010. The company is forecasting revenues of over $17.5bn by 2017, by which time the company expects to have around 31 million subscribers. more
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Fitch Affirms Sprint Nextel's IDR at 'BB+'; Outlook Negative
In addition, all of the ratings have been removed from Rating Watch Negative. The Rating Outlook on Sprint Nextel and its subsidiaries is Negative. Approximately $23 billion of debt is affected by Fitch's action. more
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Music Phones Surpass ½ Billion Units Shipped in 2007
MultiMedia Intelligence reports the worldwide unit shipments of music phones exceeded ˝ billion units in 2007, outnumbering shipments of personal media players like the iPod by almost 300 million units. In 2011, over half of all mobile phones can be considered music phones with 941 million units shipped. MultiMedia Intelligence defines a music phone as a phone with two features: (1) Music codec functionality: MP3, AAC, etc. and (2) memory slot which allows for a full featured music experience by allowing the user to carry a personal music library. This is really only possible with expandable memory. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, ipod, bluetooth, verizon, sony, mobile-music, memory, walkman, ringtones
Vodafone's First Half Results - An in Depth Study
This article, supplied by The Mobile World contains more charts and data in their subscription service. more
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