Comments on: Wireless Scorecard, Recession Edition

By: Wireless Scorecard, We Heart Data Edition

Wireless Scorecard, We Heart Data Edition — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:58:33 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham | Thursday, May 7, 2009 | 8:58 AM PT | 0 comments It’s been a rough first three months of the year for the economy, but while overall subscriber growth at wireless carriers stayed pretty stable, wireless data revenue continued to climb. AT&T’s reliance on the iPhone was once again made clear, as was Sprint’s difficulty holding onto postpaid subscribers (although thanks to its $50 unlimited prepaid plan offered by its Boost Mobile subsidiary, it gained prepaid subscribers on its iDEN network).The biggest changes during the first quarter of the year were T-Mobile’s slowdown in gaining new subscribers, and Verizon’s subscriber spike brought on by the closing of the Alltel acquisition. To mark another change — the growth of prepaid providers — we’re adding data from MetroPCS and Leap Wireless to the scorecard. We’ll post Leap’s this afternoon, but note that both providers sell only prepaid services rather than contract services like the national carriers do. For reference, check out our Q4 2008 scorecard. [...]

By: Wireless Provider Scorecard

Wireless Provider Scorecard — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:35:44 +0000

[...] GigaOm has gathered financial results of major U.S. carriers. AT&T and Verizon are the obvious leaders. The iPhone has definitely helped AT&T to retain and gain new customers. Below is a copy and paste. Original data here: [...]

By: NetworkIP Blog » Blog Archive » Remaining Optimistic About CTIA ‘09

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:48:54 +0000

[...] late February ‘09, Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOM assembled a Wireless Scorecard based on Q4 ’08 statistics from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon. Based on Stacey’s [...]

By: Telephony’s Tale of The Tape: Shrinking Telecoms

Telephony’s Tale of The Tape: Shrinking Telecoms — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:21:21 +0000

[...] line – preferably mobile, and preferably from lower cost mobile providers such as Metro PCS and T-Mobile. My belief is that telcos are in a race against time, and these landline losses are their Achilles [...]

By: Brian Kirk

Brian Kirk — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:42:40 +0000

Good info for all of us Stacey. Might you have additional data pointing to how the niche MVNOs (Cricket, TracPhone, GoPhone, Virgin, etc) are doing? Are the all-you-can-eat rate plans making anyone any money or are they just a way of attracting new subscribers in hopes of making a buck down the road?

By: The GigaOM Interview: MetroPCS COO Tom Keys | The Click

The GigaOM Interview: MetroPCS COO Tom Keys | The Click — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:13:55 +0000

[...] a total of 5.4 million subscribers, MetroPCS is still much smaller than T-Mobile, the smallest of the nationwide carriers in the U.S. However, MetroPCS has an annual revenue per user, or ARPU, of $40, compared to a [...]

By: The GigaOM Interview: MetroPCS COO Tom Keys,

The GigaOM Interview: MetroPCS COO Tom Keys, — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:01:43 +0000

By: Jerry Fleckhiemer

Jerry Fleckhiemer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:13:52 +0000

Could you do a EOY2008 summary? Also, what about the Tier 2s?

By: How Did Your (US) Carrier Do in Q4 2008? at Hellfire Empire - Wireless

How Did Your (US) Carrier Do in Q4 2008? at Hellfire Empire - Wireless — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:00:22 +0000

[...] Stacy at GigaOm was kind enough to round up the Q4 numbers for the top 4 US carriers. I think it tells you quite a bit about where your carrier stands and how they rank so I thought I would share. [...]

By: How Did Your (US) Carrier Do in Q4 2008? | BerryReview.com »

How Did Your (US) Carrier Do in Q4 2008? | BerryReview.com » — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:16:06 +0000

By: kesavk

kesavk — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:09:34 +0000

How about MetroPCS and Cricket ?