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from the maybe-other-carriers-should-try-and-treat-their-customers-right dept.
Who would have thought that providing good service at a reasonable price could be good for business?
T-Mobile continues to rack up customers:
As T-Mobile waits to hear whether it'll be able to consummate its marriage with Sprint, the company is still racking up new customers. T-Mobile also beat analysts' expectations for revenue and profit when it reported quarterly earnings Thursday.
The third-largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers said it added 1 million new postpaid customers, or customers who pay their bills at the end of the month. Such customers are considered valuable in the wireless industry. The figure was in line with estimates from research firm FactSet.
[...] T-Mobile's strong growth is in stark contrast to that of Sprint, which has been limping along, losing customers and generating less revenue than analysts had expected. During the fourth quarter, Sprint reported it had [lost] 115,000 postpaid phone subscribers.
T-Mobile's subscriber growth in the fourth quarter is also outpacing that of rivals AT&T and Verizon. Last week, AT&T said it had added 229,000 postpaid mobile phone subscribers during the fourth quarter. Verizon added 790,000 new postpaid phone subscribers in the fourth quarter.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday February 10 2020, @03:28PM
This is a time honored way of doing business.
Have "net neutrality" by default, the way it was, which incidentally was how the internet was able to explosively grow.
No need for the ISP / telecom to:
* spy on customers
* s(m)ell their data
* try to inject ads into their traffic
* discriminate based on protocol rather than volume
* (eg, it's okay to do network management to protect everyone's quality of service)
* have fake DNS that fraudulently returns the IP address of an ad server for domains that aren't registered
Just be big dumb pipes. Route traffic efficiently. The very thing that is their job. Be the best big dump pipes there ever was. At a reasonable price where you can afford to build and maintain your network and make a reasonable profit. Imagine that. Successful businesses have done that long before technology.
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