AT&T's growth is slower than it was a year ago, but it's not losing its existing customers to T-Mobile. In fact, it's managed to improve its postpaid retention rate to record levels.…
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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.…
Read MoreVerizon again sees strong subscriber growth in Q2, driven by smartphones, LTE
All of Verizon's key financial metrics are up: subscribers, revenues and profits. It activated 7.5 million smartphones, including 3.8 million iPhones and 6.4 million LTE devices.…
Read MoreAs Nextel mass exodus begins, Sprint reels customers back in
Sprint saw 1 million Nextel and Boost customers kick their phones to the curb in Q2. But Sprint managed to steer 600,000 of those departing subscribers to CDMA contracts or its prepaid brands. Helped by steady iPhone sales and its MVNO business, Sprint managed to grow.…
Read MorePay TV growth keeps slowing: 484K video users added in Q1
A survey of the top 10 publicly traded cable, satellite and telco TV services providers reveals video subscriber growth of only around 494,000 in the first quarter. First-quarter subscriber growth among these companies was over 900,000 just four years ago.…
Read MoreDigital dollars are finally starting to matter to Viacom
Viacom reported that affiliate revenues grew 20 percent domestically and 16 percent worldwide. That was due in part to digital deals that the company has struck recently, including new deals with Netflix and Hulu that make its shows available for streaming.…
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Two wildly-unrelated items today got me thinking about audience building for applications. An Android app developer feels like he was robbed by…
Read MoreUpdated: 4 reasons Pandora could win the fight for digital music
With its focus on radio, Pandora has a better chance for mass adoption than new digital music services from the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google and Spotify.…
Read MoreWhat Should Matter More on YouTube: Subscribers or Views?
The topic of view counts can be an incredibly controversial one in the web video world: They can be bought and sold, spun and manipulated. So maybe it's worth asking this question: Is there a better metric for determining online success, such as YouTube subscribers?…
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Subscriptions are becoming the name of the game on connected devices. Microsoft already offers a subscription service through Xbox Live. Now Sony…
Read MoreThe iPad: Cable TV For Publishers?
For the avid news consumer, the monthly cost of using the iPad could quickly mount to $100 or more--cable TV territory. Those using the 3G version will need to tack on $15 to $30 a month more for 3G service. That's going to force consumers to make some tough, and probably pretty narrow, choices as to what content they get on their iPad.…
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One of the fallacies in the debate over paywalls for newspaper web sites is the notion that in the pre-Internet era, people…
Read MoreRSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More?
Mark Ormond can’t get his “followers” to do anything. After they increased to several hundred only days after creating a Twitter account,…
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