John Legere’s Uncarrier campaign may have landed T-Mobile plenty of customers over the last two years, but Uncarrier’s numerous consumer enticements haven’t exactly been friendly to the actual carrier’s bottom line… Read more »
Marcelo Claure may have brought the struggling Sprint back to growth, but the new CEO probably wishes the company were growing in different ways. Sprint added 1 million new connections in… Read more »
AT&T posted yet another strong quarter for new connections, but unlike previous periods this fourth quarter was driven (pun intended) largely by cars. Of its 1.9 million net subscriber additions, 800,000… Read more »
At a high level, Verizon had a very good fourth quarter for customer growth. It brought on board an additional 2.07 million subscriptions, upgraded many old feature phone customers to new… Read more »
After facing a year of losses from subscribers fleeing its dying Nextel network, Sprint has started growing again, but that growth is being driven primarily by its MVNOs. Read more »
Despite the mobile industry’s focus on mobile data, voice has long been the primary revenue driver for carriers. That’s set to change this quarter. Read more »
Sprint sold 6.1 million smartphones, including 2.1 million iPhones. The exodus of Nextel and Boost customers continued, though, resulting in overall subscriber losses. Read more »
LTE devices drove Verizon’s fourth quarter. It activated 7.3 million LTE devices in three months and sold 6.2 million iPhones. Half of those iPhones were Apple’s newest LTE-enabled model. Read more »