Verizon grew consumer average revenue per unit by 9.6 percent during the quarter; AT&T grew ARPU 5.4 percent and Qwest grew ARPU 7.8 percent.
But there were gains and losses: video and fiber-based broadband were bright spots. Voice lines were not.
The former RBOCs added 2.3 million RGUs during the first quarter, helped by wireless.
During the first quarter of 2008, AT&T, Verizon and Qwest also lost lost 2.237 million access lines, though. So far, the tier-one telcos basically continue to trade market share with cable, gaining on the wireless front but not keeping up in wired services.
The quarter was by no means a disaster. But neither have the former RBOCs yet stabilized the market share battle on the wired services front.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Win Some, Lose Some for AT&T, Verizon, Qwest
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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