T-Mobile Issues Tips for Customers to Stay Connected with Their Loved Ones During Hurricane Hermine in the Southeast

A hurricane named Hermine is expected to strike in the southeast as a category 1 storm tomorrow early in the morning. This is why T-Mobile, one of the government cell phone service carriers in the United States, is preparing its network. The company has deployed its operations and engineering teams and is continuously monitoring weather patterns.

Some of the necessary steps being taken by T-Mobile:

As a government cellphone service provider, the company is leaving no stone unturned to prepare necessary equipment as well as providing supplies to help its valuable customers stay connected before, during, and after the storm.

The company is preparing…
•    Generators for backup
•    COW (Cell-on-Wheels)
•    Fuel tanks

The company has also decided to set up a command center in crucial areas where the storm is likely to impact. The company will closely manage network traffic with the help of its GEO-Redundant Network Operation Centers. If needed, further coordination for responses will be initiated.

Mentioned below are some of the tips suggested by T-Mobile, a government cell phone service provider, to increase their chances of getting connected with their loved ones before, during and even after the storm.

•    Keep your Phone fully charged
•    Save the battery life of your phone
•    Prefer texting over calling
•    Keep your calls short and to-the-point.
•    Don’t let your phone get wet
•    Utilize Wi-Fi calling

Let’s see how following these useful tips will help you connect with your loved ones and do many important things before, or after the storm.

1. Keep Your Phone Fully Charged:
T-Mobile has suggested all of its private and cellular Phone Service users to keep their phone battery fully charged.  You should also charge your cellphone in case of electricity breakdown. Car chargers and portable chargers will be very handy in such a situation to keep you connected with your loved ones. If possible, look for several other options right now in your nearby retail stores.

2. Save the Battery Life of Your Phone:
You must utilize the power saving mode available in your cellphone to save the battery life. Reducing screen brightness, turning all of your location based service completely off and reducing application’s usage and downloads will also help.

3. Prefer Texting over Calling:
Since text needs less network resources, it will be the most productive and easy option to know about the wellbeing of your loved ones during and after the storm, suggests T-Mobile.

4. Keep Your Calls Short and To-The-Point:
The company has also suggested that users keep their calls short and to-the-point to ensure network availability for others during severe weather conditions.

5. Don't Let Your Phone Get Wet:
T-Mobile has strongly suggested everyone to keep their phones dry or cover them using some waterproof covering. This will save your phone from getting damaged because of moisture.

6. Utilize Wi-Fi Calling:
Just in case cellular phone service does not work, then utilizing Wi-Fi is the best option for you for calling or texting purposes. Using Wi-Fi calling, T-Mobile customers will be able to call or text their loved ones. You just need to have a Wi-Fi capable phone in the absence of cellular phone service network, and have a Wi-Fi network connection.
•    iOS users should go to Settings> Phone> Wi-Fi Calling
•    Android Users should go to Settings > More Connection Settings > Wi-Fi Calling

If needed, T-Mobile has suggested all its customers to drop a call to 611 (Customer Care Number) using their handset.

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.

T-Mobile and Sprint Collaborate for New Market Growth to Compete Against the Alliance of Verizon Communications and AT&T

It appears as if the news of the tie-up between Verizon Communications and AT&T has reached the doorsteps of T-Mobile and Sprint. Perhaps this is why both of the companies have decided to collaborate and close in on the alliance of Verizon Communications and AT&T. It seems to be a kind of strategic reply to gain a competitive edge in the market. Perhaps the tie-up between Verizon Communication and AT&T, the two best cell phone service providers, has surely shaken both T-Mobile and Sprint to the core.

On the other side, Verizon Communications does seem to be affected by this decision of T-Mobile and Sprint. Accurately conducted surveys do get a lot of attention in the cellular phone service market nationwide.

Let's See What Rootmetrics Has to Say 

Rootmetrics, a pioneer in the field of mobile ranking, recently conducted a survey. And the report brought some amazing findings, mentioned below, to light.

• Verizon Communications managed to top five national categories. The company secured the best provider in overall rankings because of a reliable and lightning fast network and data performance.
• Brilliant performance during the first half of 2016 put AT&T second in the list.
• Sprint got 3rd place in the overall rankings because of outstanding call related performance whereas T-Mobile bagged the same place in the data categories for cell phone services.

These findings are nothing more than a snapshot of the way these cell phone service providers are continuously dedicating time, focus and resources towards expanding and reinforcing their networks for seeking new customers and growth.  

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Statistics Never Lie. They Speak the Truth Loudly.

Let’s take a look at how this is expected to happen.

• Both T-Mobile and Sprint expressed their unhappiness about some of the results yet they remained focused on discussions about their considerable improvement in the market of cellular phone service providers. This improvement of up to 1.24% is believed to be way more than Verizon (0.28%) and Sprint’s (0.18%) collective improvement.
• T-Mobile came out with improved statistics. The T-Mobile think tank focused on marking improvement in other reports whereas it struggled to do the same in Rootmatrics studies conducted for determining the best network.
• T-Mobile single handedly dominated the results among all carriers with the score of 0.58% in the metro area tests. Almost 40 awards in the category of powerful overall services and nearly 17 awards in a prior survey verify this improvement.
• Sprint bagged six awards in six major metropolitan cities. The company repeated the same performance with six more awards in the prior surveys. Most importantly, the company has managed to ring the warning bells for the alliance of AT&T and Verizon Communications with 42 wins in a number of metropolitan areas.
• Verizon Communications managed to sneak in with 0.28% improvement. Moreover, AT&T’s refusal to comment at only 0.18% improvement sums up everything.

This Cat-Fight Is Certainly Getting Very Interesting:

T-Mobile and Sprint are continuously making giant strides towards displacing the two huge cell phone service carriers from the top spot. The main objective of this alliance between T-Mobile and Sprint is particularly to do so in the category of large metropolitan areas. Rootmatrics has confirmed it in its recently published report.

This is enough to prove that the rankings do not have any impact over a company’s market reputation because of their quality services. All in all, T-Mobiles alliance with Sprint indicates cut-throat competition in the market with Verizon Communications and AT&T for new growth and customers.

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.