Sprint Boosts Network, Creating 500 Jobs by Adding 105 New Stores

The free Government cell phones provider, Sprint, is planning to open 105 new mobile stores in locations, like Rosemont, Schaumburg, Skokie and Oak Lawn. It will hire 500 employees to staff in these stores.

“We knew we had to add more Sprint and Boost Mobile stores for both our postpaid and prepaid customers,” Jim Mills, Sprint president of Illinois and Wisconsin, said in a statement. “Chicagoans are seeing our network and customer care improvements.”

This Government assistance cell phone company requires more brick-and-mortar stores to meet the growing demands of the people.

Sprint will also augment its Chicago regional network by providing customers the Sprint Magic Box. This device is a wireless small cell that can boost the ability of the network to download and upload data inside homes and businesses.

The first test site for its upgraded network was the Lombard suburb of Chicago with Magic Boxes for outdoor use, indoor small cells and other network advancements. This device allows faster data downloads, thereby, showing significant improvement for video streaming.

“The combination of all of these new technologies will help Sprint densify quicker and it will provide customers an improved experience inside their business and homes while on the Sprint network,” Scott Santi, Sprint vice president of network for Central Area, said in a statement. “We’re extremely excited about the results we’ve already seen in Lombard and nationally.”

Sprint is looking to compete with other giant free Government cell phones providers by providing assistance to customers having several smart devices in their homes or businesses. According to Sprint, data usage of its customers has risen over 1,254 percent in the last five years in the Chicagoland area.

Sprint, AT&T and other wireless providers are striving hard to augment network capacity in order to cover consumer demand, particularly of people using many devices in the same household or business.

The added cells and network enhancements at Sprint is a great step to offer faster downloads for data, particularly better streaming for video without delaying.

The network improvements around the region, and countrywide will take place in the next 24 months. These upgrades may lay the foundation for the coming of 5G, or the next generation of wireless.

See Also: T-Mobile, Government Cell Phone Service Firm Starting 5G in US in 2019

"We need to add these steps now to the foundation in order to go to 5G," said Brian Moran, director of site development for Sprint.

Subscribers who want to enjoy the benefits of the Sprint Magic Box would need to fill out a form. The box is free, Moran said.

Sprint’s new mobile stores will provide employment to a large number of people. Additionally, its efforts to offer an advanced network consisting of alluring features will engage an enormous number of customers.

AT&T Launches Stream Saver Video Regulating Feature

AT&T is an elite name, offering exceptional cell phone service and other plans to its customers. Recently, this cellular phone service provider has launched a new Stream Saver feature for its customers.

Details About AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation, located at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the second largest mobile telephone services provider and the largest fixed telephone services provider in the United States. It is the largest telecommunications company in the world by revenue. AT&T has maintained a good name by offering exceptional cell phone service and other plans to its customers. It also offers broadband subscription television services through DirecTV. 

AT&T is the third largest company in Texas, and as of February 2017, it is the 12th largest company globally as analyzed by a composite of revenues, assets, profits, and market value, and the 12th largest non-oil company. As of 2017, it is also the 18th-largest mobile telecom operator worldwide, with 135 million mobile customers. It was ranked at 4 as the world's most valuable brands published by Brand Finance for the year 2017.

AT&T Inc. started its foundation as Southwestern Bell Corporation, one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies formed in 1983 in the divestiture of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company following the 1982 United States v. AT&T antitrust lawsuit. In the year 1995, Southwestern Bell transformed its name to SBC Communications Inc. In 2005, SBC bought previous parent AT&T Corp. and took on its branding, with the combined entity naming itself AT&T Inc. and using the iconic AT&T Corp. logo and stock-trading symbol.

This is the brief history of the renowned cellular phone service provider,  AT&T. Now, let’s talk about its latest stream saver video regulating feature:

Back in November we heard the first news of AT&T's Stream Saver feature. When it is activated, the HD video (720p) is reduced to standard video (480p), offering DVD quality video. In this way, the users with a data bucket can save some data while viewing streaming videos. This feature is now automatically enabled on AT&T and GoPhone pre-paid plans.

The stream saver video regulating feature is on by default. So, customers can turn Stream Saver off by visiting the AT&T website and its “Manage my data” account page. Once it is turned off, wait for five minutes and then perform a complete smartphone reboot for the change to fully take effect.

You can even sign up to use AT&T’s standalone unlimited plans. This will consist of the carrier’s $90 a month Unlimited Plus plan, supporting HD video streaming, though total download speeds are reduced for the rest of the month after consuming over 22GB data per billing cycle.

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If you are using the carrier's Unlimited Plus data plan, you will want to disable Stream Saver immediately  because it streams video without limits at a 720p resolution. If you are subscribed to AT&T Unlimited Choice, you do not have to make any changes since streaming is done at 480p.

There is a mixed response to AT&T’s new feature. Let see how it works in the future.

Get the Earnings Preview and Know What to Expect From Sprint

Sprint, a cellular phone service provider, releases its earnings, and is currently trading around $9.43. This telecom giant hit it’s record high of $69.10 in 1999. The stock still lags behind its 1999’s stock record. But it can easily move higher by posting strong numbers. Below are the details of what the Street is expecting:

Earnings Preview:

Sprint, a cellular phone service provider, is anticipated to report the loss of ($0.08)/share on $8.32 billion in revenue. Meanwhile, the whisper number, which is the Street's unofficial view on earnings, is a projected loss of $0.10.

Company Profile & Various Businesses:

Sprint Corporation (Sprint) is a Government cell phone service provider, incorporated on October 5, 2012. The Company, along with its subsidiaries, is a communications firm delivering numerous wireless and wireline communication products and services to consumers, Government subscribers, businesses, and resellers. It works through two segments, namely Wireless and Wireline.

Sprint provides wireless and wireline services to subscribers residing in 50 states. Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands come under its corporate brand, which includes its retail brands of Sprint, Virgin Mobile, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless. Their wireless service is provided using several technologies, such as third generation (3G), code division multiple access (CDMA), fourth generation (4G) services, and Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Wireless

Sprint, a Government cell phone service provider, delivers wireless services on a prepaid and postpaid payment basis to retail subscribers and also on a wholesale basis. The sale of wireless services that use the Sprint network, however, are sold under the wholesaler's brand.

In its postpaid portfolio, it bestows several Government cell phone plans to both consumer as well as business subscribers. It also provides family plans, covering multiple service lines under one account. Sprint delivers these plans with subsidy, installment billing or leasing programs.

Sprint’s prepaid portfolio covers multiple brands to allure a specific subscriber’s uses and demographics. Boost Mobile chiefly assists subscribers with plans offering unlimited text and talk with step pricing, according to their preferred data usage.

Virgin Mobile offers control and connectivity through diverse plan options. It is also labeled as a Lifeline-only Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in several states and offers service for the Lifeline program under the Company's Assurance Wireless brand.

To get the Lifeline Program, it is essential for applicants to qualify under certain eligibility requirements. Also, the existing subscribers have to recertify to those requirements yearly.

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Wireline

Sprint, a cellular phone service provider, offers a suite of wireline voice and data communication services to other communications companies and targeted business subscribers.

It’s Wireline segment delivers voice, data and Internet Protocol (IP) communication assistance to its Wireless segment. It offers long distance services and operates all-digital global long distance and Tier 1 IP networks. Its services and products consist of domestic and international data communications using a myriad of protocols, including the following:
•    Multiprotocol label switching technologies (MPLS),
•    IP
•    Session Initiated Protocol (SIP)
•    Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
•    Managed network services
•    Traditional voice services

Its IP and wireless services can be combined together.

Competitors:

Sprint, a Government cell phone service provider, competes with several firms, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Communications, CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications, Inc.

FCC Claims Verizon and AT&T are Violating Net Neutrality Laws

The Federal Communications Commission issued a report claiming Verizon Wireless and AT&T’s ‘zero-rated’ services desecrated net neutrality plans. Tom Wheeler, the Chairman of the FCC, was the main supporter of the report, published by the Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Many people consider this policy review as one last rebellious shout before the Trump administration takes office on January 20, and Wheeler deserts his post as the head of the Government agency.

Verizon Wireless and AT&T Dismiss Allegations:

On the other hand, both Verizon Wireless and AT&T (Government cell phone service providers) have dismissed the FCC’s allegations, saying their business models only encourage competition in the market without causing any harm to the customers. Before covering all relevant details, it is essential for you to know about ‘zero-rated’ services, offered by both the Government cell phone service providers.

So, let’s gain some knowledge about zero-rated services:

In the case of wireless mobile carriers, ‘Zero-rated’ services are plans for consumers to stream content from some platforms without paying for the data they consume.

AT&T’s DirecTV Now and Verizon’s FreeBee Data 360 are subsidized data programs that offer access to certain platforms and services virtually free of data consumption charges. In the case of AT&T, the benefit to subscribers is enormous since the DirecTV catalog is immense, and the content they stream does not register on their monthly data cap. Similar is the case, but to a lesser extent with Verizon’s Go90 platform.

This Practice is Rapidly Spreading Across the Industry:

Evidently, the practice is against the Open Internet Order of 2015, which supports net neutrality above biased business practices and non-ethical competition in the consumer market. The FCC report is futile without legal action. Also, several outlets have said, the latest report by the FCC lacks purpose since the present leadership has not much time to take tangible steps against these companies and their misconduct.

See Also: T-Mobile Introduces Low Cost IoT Packs Offering Wireless Data

Bernie Sanders Supports it:

Bernie Sanders is one of many Democrats who support the FCC's report. Upon learning of the FCC policy review, a Democrat parliamentary block headed by Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts (D) issued a statement supporting Commission’s conclusions on ‘zero-rated’ programs. Al Franken of Minnesota, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut backed Markey’s official statement.

At Last:

It is too early to come to a conclusion on how this will play out. Come back to this website to stay updated in this regard.

AT&T and Verizon Wireless Agree on the Deployment of Initial 5G Models; Standards Timing Becomes an Issue

It looks as if both AT&T and Verizon Wireless are getting on the same page about the initial 5G deployment models. Last week, representatives from both companies discussed this thoroughly during the 5G North America event. The Event kicked off with a keynote address and panel discussion specifically directed towards 5G’s current state.

Detail of the Event’s Key Highlights

Talking about 5G deployments, they were mainly expected to center on the fixed use of broadband. It was mainly noted during the early panel discussion conducted on topic. Its main purpose is to help carriers make use of technical specifications for powering technically superior equipment capable of supporting both higher speed of data and greater capacity for the government cellphone plans and the rest of the users.
 

Representatives from both companies welcomed this agreement. They openly spoke their mind in this regard.

Mr. Brian Daly Says…

According to Mr. Brian Daly, the director of core government and regulatory standards at AT&T, the company was waiting for such a fantastic opportunity to get some command on consistently increasing demand for video streaming services. Taking video support into consideration, it was perhaps one of the big use cases that all of us see. Moreover, the company was thinking about taking advantage of its diverse portfolio of fixed, mobile and satellite assets for meeting the demands of government cellphone plan users.

Mr. Alexander Khalin Says…

According to Mr. Alexander Khalin, the Director of Corporate Strategy at Verizon Wireless, the company agreed on initial development plans about all sorts of fixed wireless broadband services.

Twist in the Tale:

Recently, there has been a controversy between the companies about the move towards 5G standards and, the perceived difference of opinions in terms of timing for those standards is mainly responsible.

AT&T Asked for Some Extra Time:

According to some reports, AT&T has led a group at a recently conducted standards meeting for securing some form of 5G standards booked by the end of 2017. It is way ahead of the initial timeline finalized for the third-generation partnership projects of mid-2018. AT&T explained this move as the company requires some extra time for testing some standards to get ready for further testing and commercial deployments by mid-2018 for government cellphone service and other users.

Verizon Wants to Keep the Schedule as is:

The company seems to have its eyes set on promoting its own 5G agenda related to plans for network trials starting in 2017. This is why the company has come up with a counter proposal stating it would like to keep the schedule totally unchanged. Mr. Khalin did not comment on this week’s event.         

AT&T’s Explanation            

The company was waiting for an opportunity to get some form of standard committed between the time period of December 2017 and March 2018. It could possibly be for a non-standalone radio specification to help inform silicon vendors as they get ready for the development of chipsets early to support network trials. AT&T mentioned this effort under the guise of a carrier waiting for an opportunity to ensure “Learnings” from all of the existing and thought-out trials for 5G networks that could possibly be driven into a kind of standards process.

Summary of the Story:

If everything goes right, then the government cellphone service subscribers of both the companies would benefit. However, fortunes don’t seem to be supporting both the companies in this regard. It is turning out to be full of controversy between the two largest cell phone service providers in the US. It will be very interesting to see which way the decisions go.

T-Mobile Implements $0.01 per Minute Charge for Making Calls to Out-Of-Plan Numbers

 

Who This News is for?
If you are a T-Mobile cellular phone service subscriber, this news is definitely for you.  The company has revised its policy for conference calls. If you frequently have to make important conference calls then you must educate yourself with the new policy of T-Mobile in this regard.

A look at the New Policy:

T-Mobile has recently rolled out a new policy for all the cellular phone service customers who make calls to “out-of-plan phone numbers”. According to this new policy, all T-Mobile’s customers making calls to “out-of-plan phone numbers” will have to pay a $0.01 per minute charge. This charge will be applicable on services such as:

• Conference calls
• Chat lines
• Radio Broadcast lines

T-Mobile Says:

The charge, according to the new policy, will affect calls only to a “Limited number of services”. Most importantly, most conference calls utilized by employers will not be subject to any such charge, confirms T-Mobile.

How You Can Avoid Paying This Charge:

If any cellular phone service subscriber ends-up using any service which is clearly subject to T-Mobile new $0.01 per minute charge, the customer will be warned after the number is dialed. In this way, customers will get an opportunity to hang up and avoid paying any such charges. 

T-Mobile has a Reason Behind Implementing This Charge:

This is not a charge to any existing calling plans. Instead such calls have always been deemed out-of-plan, says T-Mobile. In addition, the company also says that these calls tend to cost more for T-Mobile for competition and this further helps the company in the process of managing those costs.

The Main Culprit:

Seriously, this is not going to be a charge that all or most of the T-Mobile cell phone service subscribers are going to face. However, some folks have faced these charges in recent days, including some of them on Reedit. Services like freeconferencecall.com can be considered as the main culprit for this charge implemented by T-Mobile.

What to Do in Such a Situation?

All T-Mobile cell phone service subscribers are advised either to comply with the advice issued by the company unless they don’t mind paying $0.01 per minute charge for using a better and different level of service. 

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At last:

The company has devised this new policy for its cell phone service subscribers for making calls to “out-of-plan phone numbers”.  However, this charge will be applicable for a limited number of services, as said by the company. Has anyone encountered any such $0.01 per minute “out-of-plan phone number” charge so far? If not, then such customers must get ready for it as soon as possible. Coming to the point, considering increasing market competition, it will be very interesting to see the way customers respond or react to this decision by T-Mobile.

Verizon Wireless Plans to Launch LG V20 Ahead of Other Carriers

Some of the major US carriers like T-Mobile and AT&T have already been expecting a significant number of pre-orders related to LG V20. On the other hand, another major US carrier named Sprint is yet to start taking pre-orders for the same phone until 21st October, 2016.

Although T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T might be releasing the LG V20 on 28th October 2016, Verizon Wireless seems to have some other plans. The company is all set to make the competition fierce. Verizon Wireless has announced the launch of the LG V20 on Thursday October 20, 2016 for its Nevada phone service users. The company has also decided to release the phones for users in its stores a day earlier to beat the competition. The company plans to do it ahead of other carriers in order to seek new growth in the wireless sector. The company announced the availability of LG V20 this week.

The Exact Date of Availability in Stores:   

LG’s V20 is surely going to be ahead of the other carriers as it is likely to be available on Verizon Wireless this week. According to the report by Droid Life, Nevada phone service users will be able to get this phone in Verizon Wireless stores on 27th October, 2016. Otherwise, users can buy this phone on the Verizon Wireless’ website before the date specified.

The Price of LG V20:

Coming to the price, the company has not revealed it yet. However, according to some rumors doing rounds on internet in this regard, the device is likely to cost around $769 to $800. In addition to that, the company plans to offer a free pair of B&O Play earphones to Nevada phone service users who buy LG’s V20. Needless to say, every cellular phone service subscriber in Nevada must be expecting slightly higher prices as compared to the prices set by the other carriers.

The Purpose of launching LG V20 Ahead of Other Carriers:

The company has been struggling to gain new growth in the wireless sector for a long time. Therefore, launching LG V20 ahead of the other carriers in the United States could give Verizon Wireless an opportunity to seek new growth in the wireless sector. This is possible only when the company beats other carriers to the punch. And this might just be a perfect opportunity for the company.

This Is Exactly What Phone Service Subscribers in Nevada Will Get in the LG V20:

At this juncture, it is worth stating that there will surely be some promotions by the company about the handset. Users can expect a 5.7 inch display that is very much capable of supporting 1,440x2560 resolution. It has 4 GB of RAM, a powerful Snapdragon 820 processor and a 3200 mAh Battery. The phone has plenty of other features too.

Coming back to the point, the company may have decided to seek new growth in the wireless sector, yet it will not be easy for Verizon Wireless in the presence of other strong carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint etc.

Keep coming back to our website as we will keep posting all sorts of latest news in this regard. 

Verizon Wireless Soon Introducing Three Carrier Aggregation Technology for Boosting Network Speed up to 300 Mbps

Verizon Wireless is all set to speed-up its network like never before. The company is about to exceed its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network speed over 300 Mbps. This is likely to be done using a technology called TCA (Three Carrier Aggregation). 

This technology utilizes separated lanes of spectrum to help them get used as a single wider lane. Its industry competitors like Sprint and AT&T have already been making the most of 2x Carrier Aggregation technology for a while now.  Sprint named it’s version “LTE Plus”. The company has been hiding the availability of Three Carrier Aggregation technology, apparently at its disposal for a long time.

The Possible Outcomes of Verizon Wireless’ Decision of Introducing Three Carrier Aggregation Technology

Using this technology, Verizon Wireless will become the first government assistance cell phone service provider to conduct a large scale roll-out of TCA (Three Carrier Aggregation).  This move to provide more speed and capacity to mobile users surely rang the warning bells for Sprint and T-Mobile. However, both Sprint and T-Mobile have been working on Three Carrier Aggregation publicly. Therefore, it is clear that Verizon Wireless, the government assistance cell phone service provider, needs to pull its socks up to convert its narrow competitive lead in the market into a big lead.

According to the information provided by trustworthy sources of Verizon Wireless, the company has already been using TCA (Two Carrier Aggregation) in most cities whereas Three Carrier Aggregation technology is being utilized in just a very few cities. The company has confirmed the speed range of Two Carrier technology at a maximum of up to 225Mbps. It effectively bonds 700MHz with the 1700 MHz Spectrum. Using Three Carrier technology, this range will easily exceed the speed of 300 Mbps. This variety of spectrum allows the company to add 1900MHz spectrum to make it even faster. 

But the Story Is Full of Twists:

This technology does not support every mobile set. Therefore, it is important for all mobile users interested in using it to have that right phone that is supported by this technology for various reasons mentioned below:

• This is service will not easily support most of the mobile phones in use today. Users will have to upgrade their government cell phones to one that supports this technology to help them be able to use it.
• Its speed will also vary as per the individual bandwidth.
• All of the government cell phone service providers use different speeds for every band of spectrum. This results in the end spectrums used with a varying amount of speed with various width pipes when they are merged together.
• The level or capacity of those frequency pipes also comes into play.

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All in all, it is not a cakewalk to deploy this technology for utilization over long distances. And Sprint, having a huge amount of spectrum is the best example of it, says a company insider.

That Is Merely the Outline of the Whole Story:

All of the reasons mentioned above don’t completely describe Verizon’s clear intentions behind making this decision. So far, Verizon Wireless has confirmed the list of mobile phones that support Three Carrier Aggregation technology that may include the following mobile phones:

• Samsung’s Galaxy S7, Note 5, Note 7 and the S6 Edge Plus
• HTC 10
• Apple’s iPhone 7
• LG V20

Verizon Wireless has confirmed the news that they are striving to complete all sorts of firmware updates for phones supported by the Three Carrier Aggregation technology. With the help of this new technology, the company is expecting to expand its consumer base and consolidate on its narrow market lead over Sprint and T-Mobile as a government assisted cell phone service provider. It will be very interesting to see what the outcome of this technology will be on company’s plan to seek new growth in the wireless sector.

AT&T And Verizon Communications Plan to Get Back to the Top with Three Things

AT&T and Verizon Communications are soon likely to join hands to extend their reach to new consumers for new growth. This seems to be a tough call taken by the two free government cell phones service providers. Most of the business analysts in the global telecom industry are biting their nails to see if this alliance can survive the fierce market competition from T-mobile US or not.

Both of the telecom giants focused on investing on their network and additional spectrum. This allowed AT&T and Verizon Communications to generate a huge amount of profit in operating cash flow to secure enough funds to pay a generous dividend and reduce debt to ensure free government cellphone service. Verizon Communications had invested $7.7 billion and generated the amount of $12.8 billion whereas AT&T capital expenditure of $10.6 billion ensured the recovery of $18.2 billion in operating cash.

This is certainly helping both of the free cellular phone service providers survive fierce market competition from T-Mobile. A number of other factors mentioned below are also equally responsible:

•    Wise investments
•    Efforts to seek regulatory approval for Acquiring XO Communications
•    Digesting

Let’s see how these factors bring the both of the free cellular service providers close for extending their reach to new customers for new growth.

1.    Wise investments:
AT&T has recently taken over DirectTV as a parent company whereas Verizon Communications has acquired Yahoo INC and Fleetmatics. Now both of the companies are working out a plan to roll out 5G wireless network across the nation in 2017. The alliance of these two free cellular service providers and their financial investments for acquiring companies like Yahoo INC, Fleetmatics, and DirectTV is a strategic move to increase their capital expenditures so as not to lag behind in the race for the best coverage and quality of network.

2.    Efforts to seek regulatory approval for Acquiring Xo Communications:
Verizon Communications has been trying to seek regulatory approval for acquiring XO Communications at the cost of $1.8 billion for 20000 fiber optic miles in 40 major markets connecting almost 85 cities in the United States. This has certainly forced all of the rivals to do some serious thinking. The company is planning to complete the entire acquisition process of XO Communications before 30th June 2017 whereas Fleetmatics will be acquired fully by the end of 2016. As for the Yahoo acquisition, the whole process should be a cakewalk for Verizon Communications.

On the other hand, AT&T plans to complete the entire acquisition process of DirectTV at the earliest for securing cross selling opportunities.

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3.    Digesting:Both AT&T and Verizon Communications have always been strong on strategic front. Their efforts to complete their entire acquisition plans well within the time reflects exactly that. It is very easy for both of the free cellular service providers to complete the accusation process without any financial hiccups. Most importantly, future earnings of these two free government cellphone service provider will not get affected at any cost to stay on top of the market through constant innovations.

Now it is just a matter of time when AT&T and Verizon Communications get back at the top of the telecom market to consolidate their position. 

Analysis of Yahoo INC., AOL and Fleetmatics's Acquisition by Verizon Communications - Its Business Growth in the Wireless Service Sector

The period from 2006 to 2015 can easily be called a golden period in the history of Verizon Communications. The company witnessed the compounded growth of at least 4% on a yearly basis in its revenue on the New York Stock Exchange. This golden period for Verizon has contributed to sales of almost $88 billion in the government assisted cellphone sector. 

Verizon’s wireless service subscribers increased at a rate of 9% every year from 2006 to 2015. In simple words, the company’s consumer pool grew from 59.1 million subscribers in 2006 to almost 140 million subscribers in 2015. Coming to the revenue, it grew at a pace of 9.2% every year.

To be honest, it is not so easy to continue consistent growth in the wireless business sector. There are not many subscribers available in the market for the company to switch subscribers from their current government assisted cellphone service providers to Verizon’s free cellphone plans.

This is perhaps why the company is facing a snail’s pace growth going forward in the wireless sector. And this just seems to be the icing on the cake. There could more serious reasons responsible for leading the company towards potential financial disaster in the times to come. Let’s now go through those reasons and analyze Verizon’s financial future in the government assisted cellphone sector.

The company lacked patience for seeking new growth in wireless advertising and IoT (Internet of Things) considerably. Rapid acquisitions by Verizon Communications cannot be ignored. How? See below:

• AOL’s acquisition at a cost of $4.4 billion in the month July 2015.
• The company took no time in buying a privately held company named Telesis at the start of 2016.
• Recently the company has paid almost $2.4 billion for taking over Fleetmatics.
• The biggest announcement came when Verizon Communication announced the acquisition of Yahoo INC, one of the largest e-mail service provider in the world, at a cost of $4.8 billion.
• Increasing market impact of new business has also played an important role.

 Most experts, including the entire management of Verizon Communications, are very positive about finding new business growth, especially in the domain of government assisted cellphone and free cellphone plans including the Internet of Things.  

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Verizon communication’s acquisition of AOL and Yahoo INC indicates that free cellphone plans had been setup for ripping through the internet and all forms of media in future. The combined acquisition of Yahoo INC and AOL is a golden opportunity for new growth in the wireless sector via more than 600 million mobile users and almost 280 million e-mail users.

Most importantly, Verizon’s revenue will increase to help the company increase its market share up to 10%. In this way, the company will only be behind Facebook with 30% and Google with 16% market share.  These Acquisitions must help Verizon’s advertisement business on wireless devices through free cellphone plans without much problems.

T-Mobile Recorded 890K Postpaid Subscriber Additions in Recent Quarter

T-Mobile lead other carriers by adding a considerable number of post-paid customers in the latest quarter.

The post-paid customer additions did not reach the standards set in last year’s quarter, but the customer increase is way ahead of the combined number of AT&T, Sprint and Verizon additions. Not only this, there is a remarkable growth in prepaid customers as well. The company’s post-paid phone additions correlates with Wall Street estimates and the total revenue as well as service escalated annually.

Jennifer Fritzsche, analyst at Wells Fargo said the numbers are “solid” and stressed over the significance of free cash flow in near future for the company. T-Mobile is also a provider of government cell phone service or government assisted cell phone plans.

Fritzsche commented "While gross adds for the industry were slow overall (and growth driven more by lower churn), TMUS lead the industry by a wide margin in handset adds,"  "The Free Cash flow metric is becoming increasingly meaningful for TMUS and (depending on the auction spending) is a metric which should see a significant ramp in 2017. Free cash flow expectations for the remainder of 2016 should largely depend on the amount of working capital outflows from handset purchases and its spend in the upcoming broadcast auction." 

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The company gained 890,000 net post-paid customers, including 646,000 post-paid phone adds in the second quarter. T-Mobile's latest quarter revenues surged 12 percent year over year to $6.9 billion and the total revenues mounted 13 percent year-over-year to $9.2 billion.

As a result of another successful quarter due to continued strong customer growth and improved revenues, the company’s shares rose slightly. The carrier also provides services for the Lifeline program which is known as government cell phone service.

Moffett said "For the record, we've never thought T-Mobile would be acquired. But more importantly, we've never though that one need to think it would be in order to want to own the stock," "T-Mobile's remarkable growth rate -- service revenues were up 12.1 percent from a year in today's report in a market that is down year-over-year -- and free cash flow trajectory make the case without one having to believe it will be acquired."

Sprint Beats Expectations by Adding a Significant Bulk of Subscribers

The fourth largest telecom giant in the nation rose above expectations with a net gain of 173,000 postpaid subscribers in the second quarter of the year, which also includes several government cell phone plans. With the aid of heavy discounts and free cell phone services, the company managed to attract more subscribers for any first quarter in the past nine years. In contrast to a pervious net loss of 12,000 customers last year at this time, the company seems to be on cloud nine with the significant addition this quarter which ended June 30.

The company also faced a lower postpaid phone churn of 1.39 percent in the second quarter which is an improved churn over the last five quarters. Another achievement was that it’s postpaid base is net positive against the other three rivals. For the first time in the more than 5 years it has gained more subscribers from each of the rivals than it lost.

Though the company reported a considerable number of customer gains with certain plans including government cell phone plans, these came at a good cost. The loss figures soared to $302M, which is much larger than its $20M loss last year for the same period. Not only this, the wireless revenue topped at $6.1 billion rather than expected $6.2 billion expected by those at Wells Fargo Securities.

CEO Marcelo Claure shared "We had another quarter of solid progress in our turnaround, with the highest first-quarter postpaid phone net additions in nine years, the lowest postpaid phone churn in company history, and finally being postpaid net port positive against all three national carriers after five years," "We also grew wireless net operating revenue year-over-year while aggressively reducing the cash operating expenses of the business and our network is performing better than ever."

The contract termination charges totaled $113M, mostly related to a deal with Ntelos. The net operating revenue dropped to $8.01 billion, against $7.98 billion predicted by the analysts at Thomson Reuters. 

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With a close at $4.62, the telecom company’s shares rose 27.6% since the beginning of the year.

Though the company has won postpaid customers in the country, but the analysts show doubt about how it is going to improve its network without increasing the capital expenditure.

Sprint and T-Mobile Swoop Down on Price Hike by Verizon

Verizon ups the charges for its monthly plans as well as the amount of data offered in these plans, to which the competitors, namely T-Mobile and Sprint were quick to react.

The United States' largest carrier hikes its monthly service by $5 to $10 monthly along with adding supplementary data in each of these plans. Some additional features were also introduced such as "Safety Mode" feature that lets users stay connected even if they reach their monthly allocations, while decreasing speed to 128 Kbps and enabling users to keep unused data from the last month.

But several offers were already sailed out by its competitors, to which the competitors pounced upon quickly. John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile tweeted that his company has introduced a data rollover feature through its Data Stash offering long before.

He tweeted "If you're going to copy #DataStash, why copy @att's sad version of it?" "A copy of a copy = a terrible @verizon version of @TMobile #DataStash."

Marcelo Claure, Sprint CEO also mentioned "GREAT strategy @Verizon," "Step 1: Raise prices. Step 2: Tell them you aren't raising prices. Step 3: Tell them to be thankful. #SwitchtoSprint."

While this seems to be a price hike, some analysts noted that the company actually dropped the prices in terms of cost per gigabyte of data. And the move is looked at as an effort to better monetize its users. For instance, "Safety Mode" charges $5 per month for customers who are not currently on the company’s two costliest data plans. 

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As per a research note written by Wells Fargo Securities analysts "While Verizon continues to lead the industry in network performance (as shown from numerous third-party studies), in some ways a case could be made with these new plans and offerings Verizon is acting more 'me too' to meet some of the perks which Verizon's competitors are already offering." "While an increase in the monthly recurring charge is a positive for ARPU – with things like Data Rollover and Safety Mode offered – there are more opportunities for customers to be smarter with their data usage and limit the upsell capability of this ARPU."