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By: More growth numbers for prepaid | Prepaid Reviews

More growth numbers for prepaid | Prepaid Reviews — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:48:50 +0000

[...] If you're new to the site, you may want to subscribe to the the feed.Last week we saw a report that 65 percent of new net wireless adds in the fourth quarter were prepaid. Even better, we got some overall subscriber numbers for the [...]

By: ducky

ducky — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:51:47 +0000

- Boost Mobile 2009 added 2.5+ Million subs

- Thus far (2010) Boost Mobile is completely selling out the Incognito model phone.

- Tracfone’s ARPU is well below $10 incase anyone hasn’t read up on those types of metrics before.

- HTC Supersonic
- HTC Nexus One

Sprint’s numbers Prepaid and Postpaid have been trending up. THE most important metric of all; continued growth.

By: mike freeman

mike freeman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:01:06 +0000

Sprint is going to continue its haphazard mix of brilliant desperation and general directionless on the postpaid front, WHERE IT REALLY COUNTS for them.

The prepaid side is pulling in people but Sprint Postpaid’s screwups will flatten any such advantage to a zero sum game.

Tracfone will continue as the King of Prepaid.

Tracfone will get stronger and Sprint will get weaker.

Sprint isn’t doing SQUAT with the nearly 5 million Virgin Mobile users and VM is rapidly losing relevance to their own Boost iden/cdma twin sisters’ brand. Sprint’s annoucement of at least one other NEW prepaid division by possibly summer time and maybe even TWO more divisions is going to create a marketing identity mess.

Sprint splashing “On the SPRINT nationwide network” all over their Boost cdma ads is SUICIDE. It effectively cannibalizes their postpaid advantages.

Though Byod on Boost cdma is not yet widely known, it will be a growing factor in the cannibalization of Sprint postpaid by Bmcdma.

The only thing holding Sprint back from success is Sprint itself really.