T-Mobile adding 1.6 million in Q3 ?!?!

Hmm... yeah it says T-Mo USA has 17 Million subscribers... But too bad people who can't speak German can't read this

 

I don't even see the T-Mobile name in that article or the number 17. Are you sure that's the correct article? That doesn't look right to me.

But if that's true I guess Sprint can say goodbye to the third place. That's amazing how T-Mobile can leapfrog two companies in just one year.

 

Especially with their retarded voice mail set up.

 

I can't find it either, Wish i could read German it may make it a little bit easier, but I would have thought 17 Million would stand out a little as well as T-Mobile. And with Verizon's news today it would surpass there add's for the qtr.

 

Well, if T-mobile really added 1.6 million customers, then they are right behind Verizon in terms of addition.
Here's the correct Link

~Andy

 

BTW, this is the sentence you should be looking for:
Davon würde auch die Deutsche Telekom profitieren, die in den USA 17 Millionen Mobilfunkkunden unter Vertrag hat.

It's in the 4th paragraph.
Good luck,
Andy

 

Doesn't anyone know about Babel Fish? I read the article and it's great, I even discovered a new word "Mobilfunkankanbiete," which I'm thinking about making my new title... Rancidhooligan World's Greatest Mobilfunkankanbiete!

 

ROUNDUP: Cingular and AT& T Wireless fuse to the largest US mobile
radio operator

WASHINGTON (dpa AFX) - the US portable radio company Cingular
Wireless may take over its competitor AT& T Wireless under editions.
After the Ministry of Justice the US competition authority FCC gave
its agreement on the Tuesday of the fusion. From the union the largest
Mobilfunkankanbieter on the increasing US market results.

The editions accordingly the fused enterprise must separate from
spectrum licenses in some Federal States. To be sold licenses are
among other things for the cities Detroit, Dallas and Oklahoma town
center in accordance with the editions. Thus the market dominance of
the fused company is to be diminished. Cingular must besides its
partnership with t-mobile terminate.

CONCESSIONS

In the apron of the decisions Cingular had already announced
the sales of activities, in order to zerstreuen the competition doubts
of the fusion critics. So the German Telekom wants to transfer the
portable radio nets to Nevada and California for 2.5 billion dollar
and thus the operational readiness level of its daughter t-mobile the
USA to develop.

_ after estimate of expert by the fusion the second and third biggest
company the United States the pressure reduce, since the number the
national offerer on five sink. Be reduced on a long-term basis the
necessity to reduce the prices said an expert. From it also the German
Telekom would profit, that has in the USA 17 million portable radio
customer under contract.

CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT

Analysts expect that the competitive offerers want to
abjagen now with special offers AT& T Wireless and Cingular customer.
Already in the past quarters the business of AT& T Wireless under the
forthcoming assumption had suffered. Customer growth stayed clearly
behind that of the competitors.

From the union of the two enterprises with 47 million customer the
largest portable radio offerer of the united states will result. AT& T
Wireless bring along 21.9 million customer. Thus Cingular will have
five million customer more than Verizon Wireless, the past front
runner. Cingular will pay for the purchase of AT& T Wireless 41
billion US dollar.

Cingular belongs to the telefongesellschaften SBC Communications Inc..
(60 per cent) and Bellsouth Corp. (40 per cent), also the regular
telephone business in the south, southeast and middle one the west of
the USA dominieren./mur/


source: DPA AFX

 

Wow!...Cingular is now so big they are calling it a Mobilfunkankanbieter! and they are owned by SBC, which is a telefongesellschaften!... LOL!

Now, with a churn as that of T-Mobile's how many gross customers do you need to get to end up with a net of 1.6M? That's a hell of a job the sales people are T-Mobile are doing. The reason Verizon's net adds are so high is because their churn is so low. I'm sure T-Mobile had to add much more customers than Verizon so that the net adds ended at 1.6M.

 

Not just yet. I won't concede third place for Sprint until T-Mobile has passed Sprint's total with affiliates included.

 

That's ok...you will be just delaying the inevitable a bit longer...

By the way, what would be the total of customers Sprint has just including affiliates, but NOT wholesalers.

 

Hey if I can get another quarter out of it I'll take it.

 

Thanks for the site rancidhooligan, I can read it now :biggrin:
And per there site, it will be interesting to see what they really post for the qtr here in the US vs what is said over there.

 

My sources haven't heard anything about Q3 numbers, so that 17M number is a mystery to me. It would be nice though

 

I agree with Matt. I don't think that news site even knows how many customers T-Mobile has. This week a news article came out saying Verizon has 37M customers, while others say they have 39M and others claim 40M or 41M. So numbers vary depending on who you are reading from.

 

I would think that the most reliable numbers could be found on a specific carrier's website?

 

Maybe, maybe not... do you think carriers would intentionally increase the number of POPs they have in their own media? How could anyone verify the claims of the carrier? Who is in charge for making sure people aren't running around saying their carrier has 55 million customers when they only have 35 million?

 

I know, but do you think they'd really do that?? So who can you trust??? Whose numbers are accurate???

 

Mine.

CingulAT&T: 46 Million
Verizon: 37 Million
T-Mobile: 34 Million
Sprint: 33 Million
Alltel: 14 Million
Nextel: 57... not million, just 57 people.

 

...whatever

 

:lmao: :rotfl:

 

MetroPCS -38 million.

 

So, is metro PCS #6 now... or do they not count since they're not really a national provider?

 

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

 

Wirelessly posted (AU-MIC/2.0 MMP/2.0)

well they are in the negative in my estimate, rancid

 

statistics NEVER LIE!
only Statisticians lie!

 

Oh, that's a minus sign? I thought it was just a dash, sorry.

 

Verizon got 1.6 million T-Mobile 1.6 million than sounds good to me. :hellobye: