1st Quarter 2007
Cingular= 1.2 million
Verizon= did not report yet but my estimates 1.8 million.

1st quarter 2006
Cingular= 1.7 million.
Verizon= 1.7 million

1st quarter 2005
Cingular= 1.4 million.
Verizon= 1.64 million

It is a slower quarter but for Cingular and Verizon Wireless, it should not have been a slower quarter. Look at the past results for the 2 companies from 1st quarter 2006 and 1st quarter 2005. You can see that 2006 numbers improved from 2005. I was thinking the same thing for Cingular in 2007 of the first quarter; however, as mentioned before I was disappointed. I do agree with your point that they improved their postpaid which I think is key to growth, but 1.2 million vs. 1.7 million a year ago perio...
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Not supposed to happen? Is there a wireless guideline saying so? Could we be seeing a slowdown due to market saturation yet? I think that we really need to see what the rest of the industry is doing before we gage what Cingular did. My bet is on VZW leading the pack, but it could be a rough quarter for all in the industry.
Are you going to hide again when Sprint gets it's butt kicked and be nowhere to be found, what happened last quarter, were you preaching in a third world country with no internet access???

Yes, it isn’t supposed to happen especially since T-mobile and Sprint are struggling and even though this market is reaching saturation limits they could still steal customers from those companies mentioned above. Especially looking at trends from 2005 to 2006, one would expect that there would be some growth and not a 500k or so decline from 2006 to 2007 customer growth. In addition, Cingular would be benefiting from their HSDPA/HSUPA offering which could also steal customers away from Sprint and Verizon on that front. I think those numbers should rebound during the 2nd half of this year, 2007, and especially in 2008 when the Iphone becomes materially impacting on Cingular’s net additions as there have already been more than 1 million inqui...
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So where you at? Where were you hiding last quarter this time? Were you on tour with Blondie, smoking out to Pink Floyd, in a third world country, jail, AA, a convent??? Where were you Nextel18 and should we expect the same disappearing act this go around when Sprint gets spanked?????

Since I will not go down to your immaturity with your posts, I will not engage with a response.

Thought so, can't defend the fact that you were too humiliated to post in Phonescoop. You my friend are weak, always talking about what is to come and never being there when your perfect Utopia crashes. I pity the fact that you are not man enough to defend your little Sprintel in bad times.

grow up "bigdaddy"

Pound Salt MidnightDT. Nextel18 doesn't need a defense team, he needs to answer why he talks crap and then hides instead of defending himself when wrong.

bigdaddyjay said:
Pound Salt MidnightDT. Nextel18 doesn't need a defense team, he needs to answer why he talks crap and then hides instead of defending himself when wrong.

There's not much to say there, is there? Sprint-Nextel is going through merger hell just as Cingular and ATT did two plus years ago, and, just like the Cing-ATT deal, it's gonna take them a long time to get it together.

If nextel18 said otherwise, he was obviously wrong. Case closed, no need to dwell on it. 🤨

A million preorders != new subscribers... It means that some people are upgrading and renewing and some are buying it outright because they are that crazy about anything apple because they can't upgrade. I'm sure there's a segment of new subscribers in that million though, which should help.

Very true. To have already 1 million inquiries on a device like that, without 3G, is amazing and wait until Apple comes out with a device that has 3G how much more it would be wanted. Yea, everyone wants Apple products and that is evident by the quarterly results and IPOD and desktop/laptop sales. (I do have Apple shares by the way as a disclosure.)

We should be seeing a lot of positive impacts from late 3rd quarter to 4th quarter of 2007 and throughout 2008 as this device, the IPHONE without 3G and then if they launch it with 3G will be a huge impact to both Cingular and AT&T.

nextel18 said:
Yes, it isn’t supposed to happen especially since T-mobile and Sprint are struggling and even though this market is reaching saturation limits they could still steal customers from those companies mentioned above. Especially looking at trends from 2005 to 2006, one would expect that there would be some growth and not a 500k or so decline from 2006 to 2007 customer growth.

When does Verizon report its Q1 numbers?

If they do well, along with some others, then we may not have seen the saturation point in the US market yet.

SystemShock said:

nextel18 said:
Yes, it isn’t supposed to happen especially since T-mobile and Sprint are struggling and even though this market is reaching saturation limits they could still steal customers from those companies mentioned above. Especially looking at trends from 2005 to 2006, one would expect that there would be some growth and not a 500k or so decline from 2006 to 2007 customer growth.

When does Verizon report its Q1 numbers?

If they do well, along with some others, then we may not have seen the saturation point in the US market yet.

Never mind. Looked it up, VZW reports on Monday.

Sprint Forum--Ring Ring

Verizon Forum--hello

Sprint Forum--Can we have our forum idiot back?

Verizon Forum--He already left, the Sprint numbers are about to come out so he has disappeared or something.

Sprint Forum--Not again, where is our little underdog, oh where is he??????
P.S. WiMax is the greatest thing since Bon-Jovi and the Trench Coat Guy.