subscriber base news from FierceWireless

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, T-Mobile USA parent company Deutsche Telekom is mulling a bid to acquire Sprint Nextel. The acquisition would lead to a combined T-Mobile USA and Read more...

Verizon Wireless executives said this morning that the operator is weathering the strong economic uncertainty and fails to show any signs of weakness. The company reported that first quarter net Read more...

Is there much value in push-to-talk offerings from operators other than Sprint Nextel? Verizon Wireless, according to The Wall Street Journal, is planning to launch a new, faster version of its PTT Read more...

MetroPCS announced that it added 960,000 gross subscribers during the first quarter of this year or 452,000 net subs. The additions represent a 15 percent increase over the first quarter of 2007. Read more...

Sprint's former chairman and CEO Gary Forsee's compensation during 2007 was valued at $21.8 million, which marks a 47 percent increase from the previous year. Last year was a difficult year for Read more...

  Virgin Mobile's growing troubles  I'm looking forward to Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson's keynote at next month's CTIA Wireless 2008 show in Las Vegas. I hope he will address concerns about Read more...

Clearwire's fourth quarter results show that the carrier has increased revenue to $45.4 million, up from $23.7 million a year ago. During the quarter Clearwire's net subscriber additions totaled Read more...

U.S. Cellular reported that its net subscribers additions slowed down during the fourth quarter last year, but ARPU continues to climb. The carrier added 55,000 net new subscribers during the quarter Read more...

In his first conference call with investors since he took the helm two months ago, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse admitted that the problems at the third largest U.S. wireless operator are more Read more...

Verizon Wireless reported a strong fourth quarter 2007 with 2 million net customer additions, bringing its total subscriber base to 65.7 million. Of those, 63.7 million are retail customers. On the Read more...