Wireless Provider Scorecard

Ilya Zatulovskiy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:33:10 +0000

GigaOm has gathered financial results of major U.S. carriers. AT&T and Verizon are the obvious leaders. The iPhone has definitely helped AT&T to retain and gain new customers. Below is a copy and paste. Original data here.

T-Mobile (reported Feb. 27)
•    Wireless Revenue: $4.9 billion
•    Wireless Net Income: $483 million
•    Wireless Data Revenue: $905 million
•    Net Prepaid Adds: 355,000
•    Net Postpaid Adds: 266,000
•    Total Subscribers: 32.8 million
•    Blended Churn (contract and prepaid): 3.3 percent
•    ARPU: Postpaid $54, prepaid $23

Sprint (reported Feb. 19)
•    Wireless Revenue: $6.56 billion
•    Wireless Loss: $1.82 billion
•    Wireless Data Revenue: N/A
•    Net Subscriber Loss Prepaid: 314,000
•    Net Subscriber Loss Postpaid: 1.1 million
•    Total Subscribers: 49.3 million
•    Churn: Postpaid 2.16 percent, prepaid 8.2 percent
•    ARPU: Postpaid $56, prepaid $30

AT&T (reported Jan. 28)
•    Wireless Revenue: $11.5 billion
•    Wireless Operating Income: $2.7 billion
•    Wireless Data Revenue $3.1 billion
•    Net Subscriber Adds Prepaid: 800,000
•    Net Subscriber Adds Postpaid: 1.3 million
•    Total Subscribers: 77 million
•    Churn: Postpaid 1.2 percent, prepaid N/A
•    ARPU: Postpaid $59.59, prepaid N/A

Verizon (reported on Jan. 27)
•    Wireless Revenue: $11.1 billion
•    Wireless Operating Income: $3.57 billion
•    Wireless Data Revenue: $3.2 billion
•    Net Subscriber Adds Prepaid and Postpaid: 1.2 million
•    Total Subscribers: 72.1 million
•    Churn: 1.35 percent blended, postpaid 1.05 percent
•    ARPU: Blended $51.72

In UK you get your first cell phone at age 8

Ilya Zatulovskiy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:00:13 +0000

According to the Telegraph, the average age for a kid to get his or her first cell phone is eight. Eight! I was lucky enough to get my first cell-phone at the age of 16. At that time this was a shared resource where one in five had one. A brick sized phone was a status symbol. This was still the age of the beepers and pagers.

According to the survey based on“1,435 people including 546 children aged seven to 15, 676 parents and 759 grandparents between January 16 and 26,” 35 percent of children own a cell phone by age eight. That only confirms that the E*TRADE Blackberry baby (Mobile Baby) is still ahead of the curve.

In the UK mobile technologies are more mainstream than in USA. There are obvious advantages to getting your kid a cell-phone, as you can always reach them. Carriers are offering services that are able to report the location of the device and plant it on the map. For example, Sprint Family Locator charges $5/month for this service and allows parents to set alerts based on time and location. So now you can make sure your kid goes straight home right after school or stays within one mile from the house.

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Wireless Provider Scorecard

In UK you get your first cell phone at age 8