'Q4 2008'

Sprint still bleeding badly, loses 1.3 million subscribers in Q4 2008

By: |Feb 19th, 2009 at 03:14PM
Filed Under: News, Sprint
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Following Sprint’s earnings call, the company wrapped up a pretty dark 2008 with more of the same – there’s really no way to sugarcoat this so we’ll just get right to it. Sprint lost $1.62 billion in Q4 for a total loss of $2.79 billion in 2008. Actually that’s not terrible, all things considered. As for subscriber figures, 1.3 million fled the carrier in Q4 rounding off Sprint’s total number of lost subscribers in 2008 at 4.5 million. The company carried 49.3 million subsc...

Rogers’ Q4 results are a mixed bag

By: |Feb 18th, 2009 at 08:08AM
Filed Under: News
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Early this morning Rogers Communications Inc. posted its fourth quarter 2008 financial and operating results. We’re not at all interested in Rogers Cable and Media and we know all you want to know is its ARPU, churn and smartphone sales so if you please bear with us while we get this out of the way we’ll get straight to it: Rogers posted a loss of $138 million CDN ($109.25 million USD). While it was mostly the Media/Print division that dragged Rogers down (Cable had double-digit growth), Wireless ...