Churn news from FierceWireless

Here are some key metrics from the top five carriers in the U.S.: Alltel, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless. Check out the tables below to see how these carriers performed Read more...

Prepaid carrier MetroPCS reported an addition of about 114,000 subscribers during its Q3. The carrier also posted a 70 percent increase in its EBITA year-on-year on total revenues of $557 million. Read more...

Operators always seem to have a love-hate relationship with prepaid offerings. On the one hand, they need them to penetrate deeper into the market as postpaid growth flattens. On the other, Read more...

Sprint Nextel reported third quarter net income of $64 million, a 77 percent drop from last year's respective quarter. Earnings fell to 23 cents a share from 32 cents a share this time last year and Read more...

Although it didn't top rival AT&T, Verizon Wireless reported strong growth with 1.6 million net new subscribers in third quarter 2007 bringing its total subscriber base to 63.7 million. AT&T, Read more...

The iPhone is certainly paying off for AT&T. The carrier, which reported its third quarter earnings this morning, added a net 2 million subscribers in the quarter, the highest third-quarter Read more...

Churn for Q3 2007: Read more...

Alltel Wireless, which just agreed to be acquired by private equity investors, posted a strong third quarter as earnings jumped 51 percent to $282.6 million. The carrier also added 205,000 net subscribers in the quarter, about twice as many as a year ago. At the end of Q3, Alltel had 12.1 million subs. Revenue was also up 14 percent to $2.28 billion. Net churn for the carrier came in at 1.31 percent for post-pay and 1.90 percent for total churn. ARPU came in at $55.96, while data ARPU was $6.36. Here's a look at Alltel's last few quarters for net subscribers as compared to the other big Read more...

Do CEO ousters really help performance? It's not good news for industry CEOs lately, primarily Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo and Sprint Nextel Chief Executive Gary Forsee. News circulated last Read more...

MetroPCS posted some subscriber addition metrics ahead of its full Q3 report: The carrier managed gross additions of approximately 671,000 subscribers, an increase of 16.6 percent from this time last Read more...