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Articles tagged with: Verizon Wireless and Metropcs
MetroPCS to launch 4G phone before Verizon
The last shall be the first: MetroPCS to launch 4G phone this fall, ahead of Verizon Wireless more
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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: t-mobile, rural, leap-wireless, tim, lte, verizon, alltel,
Shareholders Pushing for Sale of US Cellular to Larger Rival
Further consolidation in the USA's telecoms market could be imminent as shareholders are reported to be pressuring U.S. Cellular to seek a buy-out from one of its larger rivals. The company is 81% controlled by Telephone & Data Systems (TDS), which is itself facing pressure from several large shareholders to put itself up for sale. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, eu, wcdma, ict, sprint-nextel, lte, cdma, verizon, alltel, anti-trust, u.s.-cellular, sprint, gsm, target,
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
Related Tags: t-mobile, analytics, smartphone, arpu, t-mobile-usa, ict, itu, smartphones, leap-wireless, lte, strategy-analytics, verizon, alltel, mobile-broadband, us-cellular,
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, verizon, qwest, us-cellular, seven, bell, ntelos, cincinnati-bell, cincinnati,
New IPO Candidate NextG Culls $40 Million From Private Placement
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Wireless infrastructure company NextG Networks, which last week filed for an initial public offering of $150 million, has recently raised more than $40 million in Series C funding from venture investors. 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
Related Tags: w-cdma, leap-wireless, alltel, verizon-communications, arun-sarin, bell-mobility, bell, wave, alltel-wireless, bell-atlantic
FCC Draft Auction Rules a win for Google, Hi-Tech Industry"
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The hi-tech industry, led by Google, scored a big victory over incumbent broadband providers this week as draft rules released by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin for a highly anticipated radio-spectrum auction have incorporated many of the hi-tech industry's demands. more
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FCC Mulls Cos' Positions On Auction Of Prized Radio Spectrum
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Communications Commission's consultation on the rules of its upcoming radio spectrum auction closed this week, and in their last-minute submissions few of the likely participants in the auction changed the arguments they had been making in private in recent months. more
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