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Articles tagged with: Rural and T Mobile
Active RAN Sharing Could Save Operators $60 Billion
..see very great potential in emerging markets like India where rural expansion and 3G could drive active sharing." more
Related Tags: 3g, base-station, eu, vodafone, o2, lte, abi-research, capex, telenor, 3, backhaul, tele2, infrastructure-sharing, opex, tower, antenna, telia, network-sharing
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
Related Tags: metropcs, leap-wireless, tim, lte, verizon-wireless, verizon, alltel,
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 Verizon'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
Related Tags: metropcs, leap-wireless, wind, mts, cdma, verizon, alltel,
US Mobile Market Remains Slow as Economic Concerns Mount
..e some 6.5m connections spread across the other (mainly rural) operators, giving a total of 28m for the chasing pack outside of the big four, or slightly more than 10.5% of the total. Over time, we would imagine that the majority of these opera more
Related Tags: mobile-data, arpu, t-mobile-usa, metropcs, leap-wireless, virgin-mobile, mvno, verizon, alltel, cdma, iden, sprint, billing, churn, virgin,
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
Related Tags: metropcs, leap-wireless, sprint-nextel, verizon, alltel, telus, seven, sprint, nextel, rogers, bell-mobility, bell,
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