“T-Mobile USA could end a four-year drought and record a net addition of postpaid customers — high-spending smartphone users with service contracts — in Q2, some analysts forecast,” Reinhardt Krause reports for Investor’s Business Daily.
“T-Mobile USA (TMUS) has improved in this key segment of the wireless market in part thanks to Apple ‘s (AAPL) iPhone,” Krause reports. “In April, T-Mobile became the last of the Big Four U.S. wireless carriers to sell the popular device. Also, T-Mobile’s installment payment plans for smartphone users, unique among the biggest carriers, seems to be catching on with postpaid subscribers, analysts say.”
Krause reports, “‘A lot of T-Mobile’s success has to do with the iPhone” and T-Mobile’s unique way of letting users pay for the device in installments, said Roger Entner, head of Recon Analytics… Macquarie Capital estimates T-Mobile will add 98,000 postpaid customers in Q2, compared with a 557,000 loss in Q2 2012. Barclays forecasts 50,000 Q2 postpaid net adds for T-Mobile.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
The T-M board should fire the CEO who didn’t want Apple. Fire the DoCoMo CEO while you’re at it.
As a T-Mo user and waiting 6 years for T-Mo to get iPhone, I was wondering what was happening regarding how things were going since they announced iPhone availability. Patiently waiting for iOS 7 and iPhone 5s to get my first ever iPhone, providing T-Mo doesn’t screw with its phone plans.
T-Mob customer here. Not sure it was worth the wait (I guess from a pocket book stance it was) but the iPhone 5 kicks butt and I got to get rid of my Android phone. And yes, the guy who didn’t want the iPhone for T-Mob should be punished. Maybe be forced to use a Kin or something for a year.
I just don’t get why there is so much bad press about the iPhone 5 just because it doesn’t have a large display. Not all consumers want or need large displays and other than that why is the Galaxy S4 so much more advanced for average consumers. I know it has a fast processor, more megapixels and lots of OS features, but do most consumers really care? I’ll bet there were more consumers buying SGIIIs just because they cost a lot less than the SG4 and I’m willing to bet they weren’t any less satisfied.
There’s just no way the iPhone 5 can be considered out-of-date to the point of nobody wanting to buy it. I suppose the next iPhone will have a faster processor, more megapixels and more tricks in the OS, but although not game changing, it will still be a good product that consumers will buy. Apple isn’t going to be pushed out of the smartphone business by Samsung. I just don’t think the economy can support Apple selling 45 million smartphones anymore no matter how spectacular the next iPhone is.
“I just don’t think the economy can support Apple selling 45 million smartphones anymore”
It’s a big world.
See, the proof IS in the pudding.
Samsung and Android, T-Moble was loosing with you, to only be saved by Apple. That means you suck.
Very good! Thank you iPhone!