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Kevin Fitchard Nov 3, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Under new CEO, Sprint shows signs of life, but it’s still shedding key customers (and employees)

Sprint started growing again last quarter, but its 484,000 net subscriber additions all came from MVNOs like FreedomPop. Sprint is still bleeding valuable postpaid customers, and it's financial troubles are triggering new layoffs.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 27, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

T-Mobile grows by another 2.3M connections as it rakes in more smartphone customers

T-Mobile keeps growing, adding new prepaid and postpaid customers and activating new smartphone and even internet-of-things connections. The only area where its lagging far behind the competition is in tablets.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 22, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

AT&T connects half a million cars to its LTE network in Q3

AT&T adds 2 million new connections in Q3, but it's most impressive growth came in the connected car as GM and Audi rolled out their 4G vehicles this year.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 21, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Tablets continue to drive Verizon’s growth in Q3

Tablets have turned into Verizon's big of source of growth, which means Verizon might be vulnerable as the iPad Air 2 goes on sale. Verizon is the only major carrier incompatible with Apple's new SIM card.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Nov 14, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Is 2013 the year mobile data becomes bigger than voice?

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.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 30, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Sprint gives and gains ground in a complicated 3rd quarter

This summer had a lot of milestones for Sprint, some good, some bad. It closed its deals with SoftBank and Clearwire, and began a massive network transformation, but it also lost a lot of customers in process.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 23, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

75% of AT&T customers now own smartphones and they’re buying a lot more data

Despite having three out of every four contract customers already owning a smartphone, AT&T's continued to grow its smartphone base in the third quarter. What's more existing smartphone customers are upgrading their data plans.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 17, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Verizon Wireless keeps on growing, adding 1.1 million new subscribers

Sales of smartphones and LTE-connected devices continued to drive the pace: 67 percent of its retail contract subscriber base now owns a smartphone, and 34 percent owns an LTE device.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Nov 12, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

US mobile growth starts to stagnate

As the wireless industry in the US matures, new subscriber growth reaches its lowest level in a decade while traditional SMS revenues and traffic begin to decline, according to a new report. Like Europe and parts of Asia, the US market is getting saturated.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 18, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

As Nokia Siemens shrinks the 4G network, its prospects grow

Nokia Siemens Network just turned a big quarterly profit, all thanks to its recent LTE momentum. The infrastructure vendor is trying to build on that momentum by pushing into future LTE technologies like small cells and HetNet, which it claims will increase network capacity 1,000-fold.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 18, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Verizon LTE activations boom after iPhone 5 intro

Verizon activated 4.5 million LTE devices in the third quarter, an increase of 1.3 million over Q2. While the iPhone 5 was introduced only 10 days before the close of the quarter the new LTE-powered Apple phone contributed to that growth.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Nov 11, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

How Apple put the hurt on carriers’ subscriber growth

The usual third-quarter subscriber boom failed to happen as operators had no new iPhone to lure in new customers. But UBS predicts that the fourth quarter will more than make up for any slumps, as it combines the traditional holiday surge with a delayed new-iPhone bump.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Adam Lesser Oct 10, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Today in Green IT: The Q3 Numbers

The third quarter's numbers are out from the Green IT section of GigaOM's research subscription service GigaOM Pro. Solar is struggling, while IT-based systems like car sharing are soaring. Dig into the details with us.…

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