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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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US Mobile Market Remains Slow as Economic Concerns Mount

During Q2 08, the US mobile market saw a marginal recovery from the depressed levels of Q1, with around 4m net additions, taking the total to 261.5m, up from 243.3m one year ago. Overall penetration has now reached 86.1%, against 80.8% in June 07.  more

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USA's Smaller Operators - MetroPCS and Leap Leading the Chasing Pack

At the end of Q1 2008, the combined customer base of the six small US operators (Cincinnati Bell, Leap Wireless, MetroPCS, Ntelos, Qwest and US Cellular) was 15.53m, up from 13.66m a year earlier. This is equivalent to an annual growth rate of 13.6%. This is below the growth rates posted by T- Mobile (18.4%) and AT&T (14.7%) for the 12 months ended 31st March 2008, although it is higher than the 10.6% recorded by Verizon and much better than the -0.6% Sprint Nextel reported yesterday.  more

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USA - Third Quarter Subscriber Growth Overview

The USA's mobile market added 4.85m new connections in Q3 07 to close the quarter tantalisingly close to the 250m milestone, at 248.15m. According to the CTIA, this landmark has been reached with the 250mth customer being connected in early November. Growth has been slowing over the recent quarters, but this latest three months has seen a small hike on both the Q2 07 number of 4.5m and the Q3 06 number of 4.6m.  more

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