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TMobile is a real 3rd player. AT&T and Verizon are just happy if their net adds in a year are positive vs TMobile which is adding a million+ every quarter for p
by anilshanbhag 8y ago
TMobile is a real 3rd player. AT&T and Verizon are just happy if their net adds in a year are positive vs TMobile which is adding a million+ every quarter for past 10 quarters.
- kbutler 8y agoI thought this, but for the last several years, it looks like Verizon and at&t have both grown faster than T-Mobile. E.g., https://www.statista.com/statistics/283507/subscribers-to-top-wireless-carriers-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/283507/subscribers-to-to...
- rconti 8y agoI wonder how much of this is BECAUSE of T-Mobile? Finally the big carriers are offering not-horrible (but, at $10/day, not great either) international roaming, more unlimited plans than ever, etc. It's hard to tell what prices are doing because of the constant un-bundling of subsidies, and dropping BYOD discounts and so on, but overall, data quotas are going up, at least.
- kbutler 8y agoI agree that T-Mobile is having an outsized, positive effect on the market. I just was disappointed to find they weren't gaining on the big 2 as fast as I thought they were, and are instead continuing to lose ground. This makes me wonder if those advantages of scale aren't greater than I thought, and maybe the merger would be beneficial. But as a great admirer of what T-Mobile has done, and a since-voicestream customer, I'd hate to lose their scrappy underdog nature.