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There's the Top 3 ... and then there's the rest
09:33AM Thursday Jun 19 2008 by KathrynV
tags: business · wireless · stats · AT&T Southwest · Sprint Broadband Direct · Verizon BroadbandAccess
Most people are familiar with the top three wireless carriers in the United States: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. But not everyone can name the remaining seven in the country’s “top ten”. This handy chart shows who they are and how they ranked in the first quarter of 2008. It also provides stats on their subscriber base, their recent subscriber additions, their revenue and some other details of the business. The two leading companies drew in about $11 billion in revenue and one and a half million subscribers each. Of course, all this will change soon if planned acquisitions (like Verizon buying Alltel and Rural Cellular) are allowed to go through.

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tiger72
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People don't know T-Mobile?

Really?

That's definitely news to me!

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Re: People don't know T-Mobile?

said by tiger72 See Profile :

Really?

That's definitely news to me!
They don't offer any service in North Carolina and we are one of the largest cell phone markets in the country! You can roam here on AT&T's network, but can't purchase service.
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June 19th, @10:41AM

Re: People don't know T-Mobile?

said by MattE See Profile :

They don't offer any service in North Carolina and we are one of the largest cell phone markets in the country! You can roam here on AT&T's network, but can't purchase service.
In my time in North Carolina I roamed on SunCom with T-Mobile. And it was announced last year that T-Mobile was acquiring SunCom.

»www.t-mobile.com/company/PressRe···Wireless

HDjunkee

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Re: People don't know T-Mobile?

Local NC SunCom retailers tell me the switch over to T-Mobile will take place in October of this year.

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said by MattE See Profile :

said by tiger72 See Profile :

Really?

That's definitely news to me!
They don't offer any service in North Carolina and we are one of the largest cell phone markets in the country! You can roam here on AT&T's network, but can't purchase service.
They will soon enough. They own suncom now. They have not rebranded yet.
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Mergers have not caught up to you yet. Roaming for AT&T is probably through some other provider like Suncom.

Skeedatl
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Wow Sprint

Bleeding customers at a rate that would do AOL proud.

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Re: Wow Sprint

said by Skeedatl See Profile :

Bleeding customers at a rate that would do AOL proud.
Your point?

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Re: Wow Sprint

Don't get all bent fanboy. I'm just amazed by how bad Sprint is sucking.

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Re: Wow Sprint

said by Skeedatl See Profile :

Don't get all bent fanboy. I'm just amazed by how bad Sprint is sucking.
Yep, 9 years a fanboy. No offense taken. Next couple of years, it will be someone else that sucks. It always is. I remember AT&T was the worst wireline provider in the world. Bad customer service, yada yada yada, but now, they have the iPhone and are going LTE, they can do no wrong. Don't see anyone bitching about them much anymore. VZW.. pleeze.. They are not kidding anyone. Bleeding money like crazy. ALL that money for FIOS buildout and still growing, now going over to LTE? You'll see just how bad customer service can get (which I hear it sucks now, just doesn't get as much air time as sprint)

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T-Mobile?

I always thought it was the top 4, not the top three. According to the chart, T-Mobile has 2.5 times more subscribers than Alltel and 2.5 times the revenue of Alltel. Sprint has 1.75 times the number of subscribers as T-Mobile but that is dropping fast!
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Re: T-Mobile?

Wow Sprint is lost a few customers.

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said by n2jtx See Profile :

I always thought it was the top 4, not the top three. According to the chart, T-Mobile has 2.5 times more subscribers than Alltel and 2.5 times the revenue of Alltel. Sprint has 1.75 times the number of subscribers as T-Mobile but that is dropping fast!
Sprint is righting the ship, they won't continue to bleed customers like their recent loss of 1 million.

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Re: T-Mobile?

Until Nextel subs are all migrated to either hybrid or CDMA, they'll continue to lose those subs.
CDMA isn't doing bad, and has high(er) ARPU.

Nextel's issues are... iDEN and its future
Sprint's issues are CS, billing, and just overall bad opinions. I think they'll be around for a while, however, its future is still a little shakey, as their upgrade path is going against the grain with WiMAX vs. LTE.
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June 19th, @10:01AM

Revenue per Unit? Sprint?

I'm shocked that Sprint has the highest voice ARPU and is within $.40 of Verizon's data ARPU. If you exclude the two regional carriers (#9 and #10).

So much for their perception as the "discount" carrier.

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Re: Revenue per Unit? Sprint?

said by MattE See Profile :

I'm shocked that Sprint has the highest voice ARPU and is within $.40 of Verizon's data ARPU. If you exclude the two regional carriers (#9 and #10).So much for their perception as the "discount" carrier.
I thought that was weird also.. especially since Verizon nickle and dimes people for everything.

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Re: Revenue per Unit? Sprint?

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said by MattE See Profile :

I'm shocked that Sprint has the highest voice ARPU and is within $.40 of Verizon's data ARPU. If you exclude the two regional carriers (#9 and #10).So much for their perception as the "discount" carrier.
I thought that was weird also.. especially since Verizon nickle and dimes people for everything.
I wonder if perhaps ARPU literally means "handset" ... Verizon probably has more family plan users, which would artificially lower their ARPU.

I know my individual Verizon service was more expensive than my individual Sprint service was, for virtually identical plans. However, I have 4 phones on my Verizon plan now and I only pay $9.99/month each for the 3 additional phones.
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Re: Revenue per Unit? Sprint?

With Alltel you'd only pay for the 3rd phone. The first 2 phones are free.

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T mobile sucks I can get it here but they would not even give me a phone verizon did att wanted too much so im stuck with verizon.

schmol

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Re: Revenue per Unit? Sprint?

would have you been a new subscriber at T-Mobile? I can't believe you couldn't get a free phone if you were a new subscriber or was it you wanted a more expensive phone and not one of the ones they offered you for free...that's my guess.

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Re: Revenue per Unit? Sprint?

no I wanted their free phone promo. It was my first cell phone my credit is not that bad. I only had to pay a $125 deposit for verizon. T-mobile would not even let me put down a deposit. the just flat out denied me
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Im more shocked that with Verizons future acquisitions , they would turn into a 14+ billion dollar company. That is enough to make me want to invest the rest of my savings in Verizon.
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Actually Sprint data ARPU is quite a bit higher on the CDMA side, way higher than Verizon. The iDen side isn't heavily data oriented so it drags down the total data ARPU.
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Re: Revenue per Unit? Sprint?

Ah, the good old Sprint excuse- "We swear we'd be number one if it weren't for Nextel!"
xenophon

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Re: Revenue per Unit? Sprint?

Well, they would be in ARPU. Not an excuse, it's reality. Nextel simply doesn't pull much data revenue, as it barely has a data network.

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No surprise

No suprise to me, we're served by US Cellular, Verizon, AT&T (formerly their affiliate, Edge Wireless here) and Metro PCS.

Jesse James

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Sprint is plain junk

Sorry but you what ya pay for, and Sprint has always been trash. Verizon does not nickel and dime people, its more like Sprint does that. Or messes up your bills all the time, dropped calls, terrible customer care, poor selection of phones. OH to the user that said they won't continue to bleed customers... Yeah they will, they are continuing to lose more and more, and its not 1 million more like 2 million in the first quarter.
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Re: Sprint is plain junk

Maybe you should count the number of those million customers were iDen customers moving to another provider after the merger with Nextel.

People around here LOVE to predict doom and gloom, only however, it rarely comes true.

AOL is still around and functioning and not dead, Vonage is still here.. Comcast.. shall I keep going?
xenophon

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I have Sprint and the only complaint I have is customer support, not the cost or the service. And they have better roaming agreements than any carrier.

It's the Nextel side bleeding customers. The CDMA side is adding, just not at the rate of others.

They need to fix customer support and dump Nextel or force them to switch to QChat/CDMA PTT and shut down iDen asap.

Sprint is too big to disappear. They are bigger than Apple, Intel and Coca-Cola. They may shrink more for a while but would still be a Fortune 200 company even if they shrunk by 50%, which won't happen.
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