Of the four largest U.S. mobile carriers, all but Sprint seem to be posting strong gains. T-Mobile USA says it had added 857,000 net new customers during its most-recent quarter. Average revenue per user also was up to $53 in the quarter, rom $52 in the third quarter of 2006.
Operating income was up 15.1 percent compared to the same quarter of 2006, while churn was down to 2.0 percent from 2.3 percent in the third quarter of 2006.
Contract customer net additions in the third quarter of 2007 made up 65 percent of customer growth, down from 80 percent in the second quarter of 2007 and 96 percent in the third quarter of 2006. Prepaid additions are the reason.
Contract customers represented 84 percent of T-Mobile USA's installed base.
Blended churn, including both contract and prepaid customers, was 2.9 percent in the third quarter of 2007, up from 2.7 percent in the second quarter of 2007 and down from three percent in the third quarter of 2006.
Blended ARPU was $53 in the third quarter of 2007, the same as the second quarter of 2007 and up from $52 in the third quarter of 2006.
Contract ARPU was $57 in the third quarter of 2007, the same as in the second quarter of 2007 and up from $56 in the third quarter of 2006, driven by increasing data services revenues.
Data services revenues were $666 million in the third quarter of 2007, representing 15.4 percent of blended ARPU, or $8.10 per customer, compared to 14.7 percent of blended ARPU, or $7.80 per customer in the second quarter of 2007, and 11.3 percent of blended ARPU, or $5.90 per customer in third quarter of 2006.
Text messaging still is the most significant driver increasing data ARPU. The total number of short message service and multimedia messaging service messages increased to almost 21 billion in the third quarter of 2007, compared to 18 billion in the second quarter of 2007 and 10 billion in the third quarter of 2006.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
T-Mobile USA: Strong Quarter
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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