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Articles tagged with: Qwest and Bell
USA's MetroPCS Looks Set to Overtake US Cellular
In Q4 08, the remaining seven US operators with between 0.25m and 10m customers collectively recorded their best quarter since Q1 07, adding 0.87m customers to finish the year with an aggregate total of 18.20m. However, this gain was entirely attributable to budget networks Leap Wireless and MetroPCS, with the other five recording a net loss to their aggregated customer base. MetroPCS, the second largest of the seven, added a record 0.52m customers to finish on 5.37m, while Leap scored its second best ever figure of 0.38m to finish on 3.84m. more
Related Tags: arpu, metropcs, us-cellular, seven, ntelos, USA
Four out of Seven Small US Networks Lost Customers in Q3
The Verizon-Alltel merger, which was recently approved by the FCC, will leave an even greater gap between the large and small US mobile operators; there will be no networks of between 7m and 30m customers. There are currently seven networks with fewer than 7m but more than 0.25m customers, although if AT&TÃ's plan to buy Centennial is successful, there will only be six remaining. At the end of Q3 08, these seven had 17.33m customers in total. Aggregated annual growth stood at 13.1%, compared to 15.9% for T-Mobile ,14.0% for AT&T, 11.2% for Verizon and -6.3% for Sprint. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, metropcs, verizon, alltel, seven, ntelos, USA
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: arpu, metropcs, verizon-wireless, verizon, us-cellular, seven, ntelos, USA
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
Related Tags: arpu, metropcs, leap-wireless, sprint-nextel, verizon, us-cellular, sprint, nextel, ntelos, USA
Small US Operators - Q4 2007 Results
Since Rural Cellular, Suncom and Dobson have been sold to Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T respectively, there are now six mobile operators in the US which have between 250k and 10m customers. The largest of the six is US Cellular, which finished 2007 on 6.122m customers. The only other two companies with more than 1m customers are MetroPCS and Leap, with 3.963m and 2.864m respectively. The remaining three, in order of magnitude, are qwest (0.824m), Cincinnati Bell (0.571m) and Ntelos (0.407m). more
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North American Wireless Capex Grows Slower than Operator Revenues
"North American wireline capital spending in the first half of 2007 is down nearly 7 percent compared to last year, due largely to AT&T spending cuts resulting from it merger with BellSouth," said John Lively, Vice President, Forecasting, at Ovum-RHK. "Sprint and qwest also cut spending, while Bell Canada, Embarq, Telus, and Verizon spent more than last year. Overall, Ovum RHK expects capital spending growth remain stalled through the rest of 2007 and into 2008." more
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