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Articles tagged with: Leap Wireless
Leap 3Q loss widens as subscriber growth slows
Leap Wireless International said Thursday its third-quarter loss grew 31 percent as competition and the weak economy were a drag on subscriber growth. more
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MetroPCS, Leap shares slip after Goldman downgrade
Shares of MetroPCS Communications and Leap Wireless International fell Tuesday, with Goldman Sachs predicting disappointing quarterly results. more
Shares of Leap Wireless, MetroPCS fall
Shares of Leap Wireless International and MetroPCS Communications fell Thursday after a JPMorgan analyst downgraded both companies to "Neutral," saying rising competition in the prepaid wireless market presents a challenge for them. more
Prepaid Wireless Services Attract Increased Online Interest During Economic Downturn
comScore has released a quarterly review of the USA's prepaid wireless industry based on online visitation and search referral activity to six leading prepaid wireless sites. more
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$50 Plans From Boost Roils Market
Boost Mobile may be the proverbial cat with nine lives as far as Sprint Nextel goes. In its latest iteration, Boost Mobile is shaking up the wireless industry with $50 unlimited calling rate plans, as are its rivals MetroPCS and Leap Wireless. more
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USA Saw Lowest Ever Annual Subscriber Growth in 2008
Although the American market did not suffer quite so badly as the Canadian market in the fourth quarter, it did see a disappointing figure for net additions. The quarterly gain of 4.15m represented the lowest increase since 2002, and it was 58% lower than the 6.55m recorded in Q4 07. The total market reached 271m customers, equivalent to a penetration rate of 88.8%. Meanwhile, the inexorable decline in annual growth continued: 2008 saw an uplift of just 6.1%, the lowest figure ever recorded in the market in more than 25 years of service. 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
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Acquisitions Boosting US Companies' Growth Rates
The acquisitions of Dobson, Rural and Suncom have served to boost the number of net additions over the past twelve months at AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile respectively. AT&T already has Centennial in its sights for 2009, while VerizonĂ's acquisition of Alltel is set for closure imminently. As yet, T- Mobile has announced no riposte and in fact, it is difficult to see that there is a meaningful acquisition it could make, unless it wants to enter the murky world of CDMA which it has shown no inclination to do so far. more
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MetroPCS 3rd Quater Profits Sink Despite Higher Revenues
US mobile network operator, MetroPCS has reported 3rd quarter revenues of US$687 million, an increase of 23% over the third quarter of 2007, and income from operations of approximately US$121 million, a decrease of 9% when compared to the third quarter of 2007. more
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MetroPCS Reports Increase of 39% in Year on Year Gross Additions
USA based mobile operator, MetroPCS has announced selected subscriber information for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. In the third quarter of 2008, on a consolidated basis, MetroPCS reported gross additions of approximately 935,000 subscribers, which represents an increase of 39% over the third quarter of 2007. Churn for the third quarter of 2008 decreased 0.4% when compared to the third quarter of 2007, and consistent with seasonal patterns, increased 0.3% to 4.8% when compared to the second quarter of 2008. more
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