Verizon Regains Lead In Wireless Subscribers; Sprint Gets Some Good News
Verizon Regains Lead In Wireless Subscribers; Sprint Gets Some Good News
Market research firm IDC says there were 236 million U.S. wireless subscribers at the end of 2006 and their data revenue totaled $4.8 billion in the fourth quarter.
By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
April 4, 2007 11:19 AM
Battered by a run of bad news in recent months, Sprint Nextel received some welcome news Wednesday when research firm IDC reported that its customers spend more on wireless data than the customers of other wireless carriers.
IDC also said Verizon Wireless had moved past AT&T's Cingular Wireless in an important subscriber category. "Verizon became the new market leader in terms of total direct retail subscribers/customers, with a...
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Market research firm IDC says there were 236 million U.S. wireless subscribers at the end of 2006 and their data revenue totaled $4.8 billion in the fourth quarter.
By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
April 4, 2007 11:19 AM
Battered by a run of bad news in recent months, Sprint Nextel received some welcome news Wednesday when research firm IDC reported that its customers spend more on wireless data than the customers of other wireless carriers.
IDC also said Verizon Wireless had moved past AT&T's Cingular Wireless in an important subscriber category. "Verizon became the new market leader in terms of total direct retail subscribers/customers, with a...
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jackieramossteel said:
IDC also said Verizon Wireless had moved past AT&T's Cingular Wireless in an important subscriber category. "Verizon became the new market leader in terms of total direct retail subscribers/customers, with a total of 56.8 million, against 56.3 million for Cingular," said IDC's Julien Blin in a statement.
500,000 lead?
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Just goes to show you there are a lot of stupid people out there. In my book, the only thing Verizon is #1 at is ripping you off.
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the only reason sprint's ahead in data is because they keep losing all their voice customers because they always get dropped calls!!
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ibanezex718 said:
the only reason sprint's ahead in data is because they keep losing all their voice customers because they always get dropped calls!!
Weird, I've had Sprint for years and never get dropped calls. Stop believing all the hype.
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Where did this rumor come from..? ive never dropped a call..not even in an elevator or a staircase...Its not the service..its the phone if you get a ****ty cheap phone you'll get ****ty service.
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Also, Sprint has the cheapest data plan with their Vision pack @ $15 while Verizon's data package requires you to get little minutes for $79.99 or get a lot of minutes for over $100. If they were to get a cheaper internet plan, those sales would go up trmendously
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PhoneMan3 said:
Also, Sprint has the cheapest data plan with their Vision pack @ $15 while Verizon's data package requires you to get little minutes for $79.99 or get a lot of minutes for over $100. If they were to get a cheaper internet plan, those sales would go up trmendously
Verizon doesn't care and charges whatever they want. Business and consumers are so brain washed by the "its the network" crap that they blindly pay whatever and put up with all their bull limitations without question. Sprint's network is just as good and their prices are fully reasonable.
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What a stupid thing to say...I'd like anyone to give me one good reason why verizon is so much bigger if they aren't better? Wouldn't the consumer catch on at some point that the cheaper guy is just as good? I think so. So that leaves us with the fact that the cheaper guys aren't as good, which is why they are cheaper.
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The cheaper guy is the cheaper guy because he must give his services away. If you want bad service, they give it to you. If you want good service, you pay for it.
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their voice network where I've been (WA, OK, IL, MN, MT, and all driving points in between) is sub-par.
I have a Sanyo 200, rated best entry level phone for Sprint in 2005 by CR(Consumer Reports). It consistently gets better reception than my wife's 8200, side-by-side.
I drop calls with Sprint. It's not hype.
the ONLY reason I may stay with them is the plan I have. Voice network, IMAO, sucks.
I have a Sanyo 200, rated best entry level phone for Sprint in 2005 by CR(Consumer Reports). It consistently gets better reception than my wife's 8200, side-by-side.
I drop calls with Sprint. It's not hype.
the ONLY reason I may stay with them is the plan I have. Voice network, IMAO, sucks.
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ajstrong said:
their voice network where I've been (WA, OK, IL, MN, MT, and all driving points in between) is sub-par.
I have a Sanyo 200, rated best entry level phone for Sprint in 2005 by CR(Consumer Reports). It consistently gets better reception than my wife's 8200, side-by-side.
I drop calls with Sprint. It's not hype.
the ONLY reason I may stay with them is the plan I have. Voice network, IMAO, sucks.
If I were to go by personal experience, which you have, to determine service, I would have voted the otherway at least in IL and MN. I haven't been to WA or MT so I have no clue. OK, I'd buy tha Sprint was better. Verizon still doesn't to wide of a build out in OK and Sprint does, so fai...
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actually, it's the sanyo 8200. for Sprint. Comparing Sprint's network from two different phones.
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this it total direct retail cusotmers, this is not counting all numbers, just postpaid direct subscribers, no resellers of the network. Cingular still has more total customers in terms of people using their network, they just are not all directly cingular customers, they are just resellers of prepaid products that bum of their network. Hopefully that made sense, i am not awake yet
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as far as I am concerned, direct customers are the ones that should count anyway. who cares about resale, those come and go a lot more. I would think the important number is the real number of actual customers not including resellers such as ampd, or whatever. That is just my opinon.
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Yeah, if you can't Mobile to Mobile to them they aren't Cingular or Verizon Customers.
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i agree but they count mvno accounts, i to think it is bs. If you take out prepaid and resellers verizon has had more customers for some time now.
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No I posted it thinking everyone would read it... It is pertaining to retail customers. 🙂
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jackieramossteel said:
Sprint Nextel received some welcome news Wednesday when research firm IDC reported that its customers spend more on wireless data than the customers of other wireless carriers.
probably has something to do with not letting ppl bluetooth ringtones and songs to each other. i always knew there was a reason, like i tell me customers when they ask why sprint doesnt let you do that, "sprint doesnt like it when you buy one ringtone and give it to 20 friends, they tend not to want to lose money that way.
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