Competitively, he says, the company could may get more aggressive in both postpaid and prepaid.
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This may have a negative impact on net postpaid additions as compared to last quarter.
Sprint reported 161, 000 net postpaid additions, short of the more than 200, 000 adds most analysts expected.
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The company added 5.0 million net retail postpaid connections in 2012, the most in four years.
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Increasing smartphone penetration helped drive postpaid ARPA, as smartphone users are usually heavy data users as well.
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Verizon Wireless added 1.2 million retail net customers in the second quarter, including 888, 000 retail postpaid net customers.
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The company serves 93.0 million retail customers, including 88.0 million retail postpaid customers.
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Since smartphone users are usually heavy data users as well, this should continue to help increase postpaid ARPUs further.
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By year-end 2010, Verizon announced that 26% of wireless retail postpaid customers had smarphones, up 15% from year-end 2009.
Compared to standard postpaid mobile plans, prepaid plans cost consumers less up front and do not require a contract.
He noted that the company had the highest number of retail postpaid gross and net adds in four years.
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In Mexico, 86% of mobile telephone services are prepaid, largely because of the barriers of acquiring higher-value postpaid plans.
During the quarter, 219, 000 tablets were added, about three-quarters of which were postpaid.
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Churn levels for these subscribers are significantly lower than for other postpaid subscribers.
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Like cellphones, tablet plans fall into three main groups: prepaid, postpaid and contract-free.
With shrinking market share in the postpaid segment, Sprint needs capital infusion from Softbank to compete aggressively going forward.
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UNE's offer postpaid and prepaid plans include the ability of elected gigas and a top speed of 10 megabytes.
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The company serves 94.2 million retail customers, including 88.8 million retail postpaid customers.
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Sprint added a net 410, 000 postpaid subscribers to the Sprint platform this quarter, almost 55% higher than the year-ago quarter.
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The carrier managed to grow earnings on strong smartphone adoption, but struggled to add postpaid subscribers in a saturated wireless market.
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Increasing smartphone penetration should however enable the company to post a sequential increase in postpaid ARPU levels, bolstered by data ARPUs.
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Verizon Wireless added 2.2 million net retail connections in the fourth quarter, including a record-high 2.1 million retail postpaid net connections.
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However, Verizon will sell mobile phones associated with prepaid plans at a higher price than phones associated with a postpaid plan.
Retail postpaid churn was 0.84 percent, the lowest in four years, and an improvement of 5 basis points year over year.
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In addition to acquiring new postpaid subscribers, Verizon also managed to convert more of its existing base to the higher ARPU-yielding smartphones.
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The biggest surprise that Verizon sprung this earnings call was the number of postpaid subscribers it managed to add during the quarter.
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Meanwhile, increasing smartphone penetration should continue to help the company post a sequential increase in postpaid ARPU levels, bolstered by data ARPUs.
Like Sprint, it is letting its (postpaid) U.S. subscribers make calls and send text messages to Japan for free until April 10.
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Available with any of our 4G LTE service plans, this smartphone offers a postpaid experience at a tremendous value to our consumers.
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Mobile related sales rose 3.3% driven by tablets and postpaid wireless sales.
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