Meanwhile, Techcrunch notes that although
mobile subscriber growth in China is actually slowing — since most people have cell phones — the percentage of people who can connect to the Internet on their phones is accelerating rapidly.
Not exact matches
The foray into video comes as
growth in wireless is slowing: On that February earnings day, even as it boasted record profits, T -
Mobile startled investors with low forecasts for new -
subscriber acquisition.
T -
Mobile accounted for nearly all of the
subscriber growth in wireless over the past few years, and the other carriers are cutting prices and adding promotional offers to catch up.
This powerful combination of
subscriber growth and strengthening retention helped to drive T -
Mobile's revenue higher by 8.8 % to $ 10.5 billion.
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA)'s leap into the
mobile market could add billions to the company's service revenue, but cable
subscriber growth and retention remain job No. 1, according to Deutsche Bank.
That said, T -
Mobile should continue on its path to producing free cash flow and EBITDA
growth that far exceeds the rest of the industry even as the competition eats into its
growth in
subscribers.
In the fourth quarter, T -
Mobile took just 50 % of all postpaid phone
subscriber growth across the industry.
On the plus side,
subscriber growth was on the uptick for the first time since Q1 2013 and Spark's
mobile presence has expanded significantly this year.
Once cumulative
mobile phone sales reached 1 million units in 1986, the stage was set for explosive
growth, and the number of cell phone
subscribers doubled in each of the next three years.
I found the story interesting on a few points, including both the size and the rapidity of
growth of the
mobile market in India, as well as the volume of unsolicited calls / texts to those
subscribers: