Rumor Mill
Verizon is now the largest US wireless carrier
http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/showArticle. ... »
They steadily narrowed the gap for the last three years, and are now back in the lead. With unlimited text plans rolling out this month they are only going to expand that lead the rest of the year.
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IDC also said Verizon Wireless had moved past AT&T's Cingular Wireless in an important subscriber category. "Verizon became the new market leader in terms of total direct retail subscribers/customers, with a total of 56.8 million, against 56.3 million for Cingular
"Total direct retail" is just one of many numbers, and it's not the one industry observers usually use to measure these things. Let me know when Verizon has more than 61 million subscribers (the last count for AT&T/Cingular based on the real number used to measure these things.)
I'm not anti-Verizon, of course, it just bugs me when people twist numbers to say what they want. You can make stats say just abou...
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