Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
While there was a lot of news last week, we will focus today’s column on the Sling TV announcement, Federal...
Quarterly results include positive postpaid, prepaid growth
Sprint’s aggressive marketing efforts appeared to have paid off as the beleaguered carrier said it added nearly 1 million direct net customers to its network during the final three months of 2014.
Specifically, Sprint said its branded offering attracted 30,000...
No. 4 carrier touts strong porting ratios against rivals
T-Mobile US threw down a strong challenge to its rivals, announcing preliminary fourth-quarter results that showed it added 2.1 million net connections to its network, pushing its 2014 total to 8.3 million net new connections, an...
Some of Europe's biggest carriers, including Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Orange and Telecom Italia, reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations, leading to renewed optimism about a market recovery in Europe.
“You have further weight to the theme that European wireless is recovering,” Guy Peddy, an analyst with Macquarie...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Sprint: down, but are they out?
Sprint reported dismal earnings last week. As a result, the stock dropped 24% over the...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Sprint’s plans to cut jobs cost the carrier a bit more than originally planned, with additional costs possible through the middle of next year.
The carrier noted in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it took an additional $105 million charge during its most...
Domestic mobile operators were busy during the third quarter, as new rate plans seemed to have been launched on a daily basis and Apple’s latest iPhone device hit the market just as the three-month period came to a close.
As has become a regular feature,...
Boosted by strong wholesale growth and robust tablet net additions on the postpaid side, Sprint was able to post modest customer growth, though its financial picture remains cloudy and investors remain on edge.
Sprint said it added 484,000 net connections to its network during its...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Last week was one of stunning victory and disappointing defeat. For those of you who read this column but do...
AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless continued to woo consumers with larger data buckets over the weekend, with both operators adding additional gigabytes to various bucket plans.
AT&T Mobility’s moves included the addition of data to a pair of rate plans, increasing the $40 per month...
Regional mobile operator U.S. Cellular turned around several quarters of customer losses, but continued to feel financial pressure during the third quarter.
The carrier said it added 50,000 net customers during Q3, reversing a long-standing trend of customer losses, including the loss of 71,000 subscribers...
China’s No. 3 operator China Telecom witnessed its wireless subscriber growth slow during the first nine months of this year due to increased competition from rivals.
The operator said it lost more than 4 million wireless customers through the first nine months of this year, with...
T-Mobile US continued to show it remains a force to be reckoned with among domestic operators, posting yet another strong quarter of customer growth boosted by robust demand for Apple’s latest iPhone line. However, that growth continues to come at a cost.
The nation’s No....
Column updated to correct AT&T's service margin.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
This has been an event-filled week outside of third-quarter earnings news, with the Federal...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Mid-October, Samsung’s earnings dropped nearly 60% from the company’s operating profit a year earlier, and nearly 43% from the profits...
As is becoming common from domestic mobile operators, AT&T posted quarterly wireless results showing robust customer growth at the expense of its bottom line.
The carrier said it added 2 million net connections during the third quarter, more than doubling its Q3 2013 results thanks to...
Highlighting lofty expectations, Verizon Wireless posted solid third-quarter results that managed to come in a bit soft compared with forecasts.
The carrier said it added 1.525 million direct net customers during the quarter, a significant 43.7% bump compared with the third quarter of 2013, and...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
This week, we continue our look at events that shaped the quarter and will likely shape performance throughout the rest...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
I received several comments on last week’s column indicating that I was being biased toward the “edge providers” meaning AT&T,...
Telekom Austria reported a net loss of $401 million in the first half of 2014. The Vienna-based telecom, which is now controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim's América Móvil, blamed the decline on economic problems in central and eastern Europe, regulatory problems and an accounting error.
Telekom...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--T-Mobile US announced plans to alter...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
When mobile services were launched, voice was the primary service offered. Per-user metrics, such as average revenue per user, churn...
T-Mobile US played a large role in driving parent company Deutsche Telekom's profits this quarter, even as bids from Sprint and Iliad to buy the U.S. unit failed — and new interest from Dish Network emerged.
On August 7, the Bonn, Germany-based DT reported that its net...
