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Articles tagged with: Leap Wireless and Verizon Wireless
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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Verizon, Alltel Merger Brings Questions About Worker Health
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers wants the Federal Communications Commission to require Verizon Communications and Alltel to adopt a nationwide safety program protecting people from harmful radio frequencies as a condition of their proposed merger. 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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The Fastest Growing Operators in North America
The North American market had a particularly quiet quarter, with fewer than 6m new customers in all on a net basis. In this kind of environment, it is most unlikely that there would be any changes in the list of the largest operators, but the unlikely did in fact happen, with Bell Mobility dropping one place down the rankings from seventh to eighth. This was hardly a major change: it lost five thousand customers in the quarter and US Cellular, which had been breathing down its neck, added 16,000, to move ahead of its Canadian counterpart for the first time. The chart below shows the new pecking order, which is unchanged in all other respects. more
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