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Merrill Lynch Raises Estimates of Verizon's Growth

BetterThanJake

Jun 16, 2005, 6:29 PM
http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=23072 »

They raised their estimates of Verizon's customer adds, lowered their estimates for Cingy. Sprint, Nextel, and T-Mobile, unchanged. They also cited family plans as a big driver of continued growth.
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muchdrama

Jun 17, 2005, 1:54 PM
BetterThanJake said:
http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=23072 »

They raised their estimates of Verizon's customer adds, lowered their estimates for Cingy. Sprint, Nextel, and T-Mobile, unchanged. They also cited family plans as a big driver of continued growth.


I'm grateful I don't have Merrill Lynch handling my finances. Family plans driving business...duh. LOL. 😉
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BetterThanJake

Jun 17, 2005, 3:17 PM
Its a 'duh' for us, but those outside the industry probably don't know that Family Plans have become so overridingly important right now. I guess its just a huge untapped market thats being exploited successfully... getting cell phones for the kids.

Its a little nuts too, though... I've lost track of how many junior high-age kids I've seen in the last few months bicycling with one hand on the handlebars and the other with a cellphone to their heads. Its like the new 'Yuppie Kid' thing or something... yargh. 😳
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muchdrama

Jun 17, 2005, 4:49 PM
BetterThanJake said:
Its a 'duh' for us, but those outside the industry probably don't know that Family Plans have become so overridingly important right now. I guess its just a huge untapped market thats being exploited successfully... getting cell phones for the kids.

Its a little nuts too, though... I've lost track of how many junior high-age kids I've seen in the last few months bicycling with one hand on the handlebars and the other with a cellphone to their heads. Its like the new 'Yuppie Kid' thing or something... yargh. 😳


I was constantly setting up families of five with lines for Mom, Dad, and the three kids ages 9-13, etc... My Dad would have smacked me if I ever asked for a cell phone at th...
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Vatothe0

Jun 18, 2005, 2:58 AM
My Dad would have smacked me if I ever asked for a cell phone at that age.


Something tells me cell phones cost more that $50 and airtime wasn't .45 a minute then
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eric815

Jun 17, 2005, 11:13 PM
Looks like its Verizon this time thats actually .....


RAISING THE BAR!!!!


😁 😁 😁 😁
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BetterThanJake

Jun 18, 2005, 1:25 PM
eric815 said:
Looks like its Verizon this time thats actually .....


RAISING THE BAR!!!!


😁 😁 😁 😁

Yep, it would appear so. 😉
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RUFF1415

Jun 18, 2005, 4:20 PM
More like raising the speculation. We don't know if those numbers will be accurate or not yet.
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BetterThanJake

Jun 18, 2005, 6:15 PM
Fair enough... we won't know for certain for one more month.
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