|
Cellular forums Home > Archive > Cingular cell phone service > April 2007 > Sprint Leads in data ARPU, Verizon passes Cingular in Subscribers,
You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread.
To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to
this thread please [click here]
| Author |
Sprint Leads in data ARPU, Verizon passes Cingular in Subscribers,
|
|
|
| See "http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=49296&src=site-marq"
Sprint leads Verizon by 41¢ in data ARPU.
Verizon passed Cingular in retail subscribers by half a million.
"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.
Cingular still leads in subscribers when you include wholesale MVNO
customers that sell under a variety of brands.
| |
|
| Scott wrote:
> Hardly- the GREAT majority of that ARPU is derived from the CDMA network.
> There is no high speed data packet on the iDen network.
The key point was that Sprint had slipped behind Verizon in data ARPU,
but regained the lead. Obviously Nextel had nothing to do with Sprint
regaining the lead, the increase came from the 1xEVDO network. It's
pretty ironic that Sprint leads all the other carriers in data ARPU,
considering their difficulties in new additions.
| |
|
| Scott wrote:
> And you are still wrong. Show me one iDen product that generates any kind
> of substantial data charge- there isn't one.
The iDEN users pull the average down. If you exclude iDEN, the Sprint
data ARPU is over $10 per month, with iDEN it's $8.32. This is because
data use on iDEN is limited to some text messaging, but not the high
revenue data services that are on CDMA. The reason that Sprint's data
ARPU is going up is not only because of increased sales on their EVDO
network, it's because they are losing low data revenue iDEN customers,
which is not a good thing since they are often leaving for Verizon or
Cingular. Increasing ARPU by losing profitable, but lower ARPU
customers, is not such a great strategy.
| |
|
| james g. keegan jr. wrote:
> In article < d8ha13ht6pjl51l28099
bummeabtiacoec@4ax.com>,
> John Navas < spamfilter0@navasgro
up.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> you're in denial john
My g-d, why do you all keep replying to his crap? Kill file him and be
done with it. He thrives on the attention he gets by making his
nonsensical statements. He exists to be obnoxious and disruptive, and by
not kill-filing him you encourage him to continue in this type of behavior.
| |
|
| John Navas wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:20:43 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
> wrote in < 4616654b$0$27225$742
ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:
>
>
> You've described yourself very well indeed, but kill filing is of course
> childish -- it's apparently just too painful to see your fantasies
> exposed.
Huh?
How is kill filing childish?
--
Notan
| |
|
| Notan wrote:
> How is kill filing childish?
Without kill-filing, Usenet would be almost unusable. Many of the groups
are over-run with trolls that clutter up the newsgroup with their
nonsensical posts. They crave attention, and the fact that Usenet is
rather anonymous, they can be disruptive and annoying and see the
reaction that they get. It's almost like a child testing a parent to see
how far they can go with bad behavior before being sent to their room.
Personally, I kill-file very few posters. It's bad form to kill-file
someone just because they have different opinions than your own.
I kill-filed the individual in question because he is a pathological
liar, he is unable to rationally look at factual information and gain
anything from it if it conflicts with his personal agenda. He spams
newsgroups with his periodic postings, he illegally posts copyrighted
material, and he is somehow convinced that charters for one newsgroup
should be endlessly posted in newsgroups to which they have no
relevance. He has made shilling for Cingular his life's work, but
fortunately we don't have to give him the satisfaction of reading his
crap. It also saves time to not have to wade through irrelevant and
nonsensical posts when reading the newsgroups. Unlike the individual in
question, I have a life outside of Usenet!
|
|
|
|
|