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Grading the top 10 U.S. carriers in the second quarter of 2009

August 7, 2009 — 9:38am ET | By Mike Dano
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The following is a countdown of the top 10 U.S. wireless carriers in the second quarter of 2009 by subscriber base, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, and includes major metrics--such as churn, ARPU and revenue--of each carrier.

This list does not include resellers or MVNOs, such as Virgin Mobile USA or TracFone Wireless.

Further, this list does not include Sprint Nextel's affiliates among Sprint's subscriber count, though it does include the carrier's "wholesale" subscribers, such as those who use the Amazon Kindle (which runs on Sprint's network).

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And click here to see how these figures stack up against results from the first quarter of 2009.

 

All figures courtesy Strategy Analytics.

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Posted by Billy | August 10, 2009 - 1:23pm

Where is Tracfone?

Posted by anon | August 10, 2009 - 4:14pm

Billy is right. Tracfone is larger in subs after T-Mo and then US Cellular.

Posted by Spawn of some baby bells | August 10, 2009 - 7:04pm

They are re-sellers, not carriers. Tracfone isn't publicly traded, so maybe they aren't ranked because they don't publish those metrics?

Posted by Mike Dano | August 11, 2009 - 8:41am

Howdy! Thanks for your comments. As it says in the introduction, "This list does not include resellers or MVNOs, such as Virgin Mobile USA or TracFone Wireless." So that's why TracFone is not listed. --Mike Dano, managing editor.

Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2009 - 8:43am

TracFone is not a "re-seller," they have a dedicated relationship with LG, Samsung, Motorola, etc. For the purposes of this article they're not a carrier because they lease airtime on other's networks. Also, they're a subsidiary of a public company, America Movil. TracFone's numbers are reported in America Movil's financial reports. If they were a traditional carrier they'd be the 3rd or 4th largest by subs.

Posted by Anonymous | August 16, 2009 - 11:32pm

reseller and MVNO are not about who made the phone, but rather where they get their minutes, etc. TracFone buys wholesale and sells retail, operating a "virtual network".

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