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Articles tagged with: Leap Wireless and Sprint Nextel
$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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IN DEPTH: The Top Operators by Subscriber Base in North America
The North American mobile market has not changed significantly since our last quarterly review. The ten largest companies, which account for the vast majority of subscribers in the region, have maintained their relative positioning over the quarter, as AT&T heads the table with 71.4m customers, ahead of Verizon (67.2m), Sprint Nextel (52.8m), T-Mobile (30.8m), Alltel (13.2m), Rogers and Bell Mobility from Canada (7.4m and 6.3m), US Cellular (6.2m), Telus, the third Canadian company (5.7m) and MetroPCS (4.4m). In fact, the only change over the year is that Bell Mobility has edged ahead of USC by about 50k subscribers to take the seventh place on the list. more
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Verizon-Alltel Deal Just One of Many as Wireless Consolidates
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Verizon Communications's $28.1 billion agreement to acquire Alltel Corp. is the latest megamerger in a wireless industry that's quickly consolidating to compensate for slowing subscriber growth. 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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New WiMax Players Could Emerge as Sprint, Clearwire Split
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The early end to the partnership between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire opens the possibility of others getting involved with WiMax, a longer range version of WiFi seen as an attractive way of connecting consumers online. more
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Leap Wireless Director Resigns as Exodus Continues
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North America Operators in 2006: The Top 10
The North American market bears some similarities to that in the Russian and Central Asian region, which also features in this issue of the Briefing. In both, a single national market absolutely dominates the entire region. Both of the major countries - Russia and the USA - are themselves divided into regions and sub-regions for the purposes of telecommunications licensing. This means that both markets are made up of national, or near-national operators, regional players and some local businesses of such insignificance that, for once, they slip below our radar. more
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