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Study: Wireless Subscriptions Still Booming

  • GigaOm, Friday, March 5, 2010 1:12 PM

During the last three months of 2009, more consumers signed up for wireless services than in any comparable period over the last three years, according to new data from Wireless Intelligence. That amounts to 5.9 million (net) new subscribers. Verizon, which ended December 2009 with 91.2 million subscribers, added 2.2 million (net) new subscribers during the most recent quarter -- the most since the third quarter of 2008.

"In comparison, thanks in part to Apple's iPhone, AT&T added 2.7 million net new subscribers, taking its total to 85.1 million," notes Wireless Intelligence analyst Jon Groves. "Head-to-head after stripping out reseller and wholesale net additions, Verizon reported 1.2 million net additions in 4Q09 against AT&T's 900,000 ... However, the iPhone yet again remained a very strong proposition for AT&T, with 3.1 million iPhone account activations reported in the fourth quarter."

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