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Re: Apple... America is a long way from a nation wide LTE network, it’s going to be 2014 before we even have spotty coverage and 2020 before that network replaces GSM completely. Apple is going to have to eat higher manufacturing cost to gain market share. There is close to 150 million CDMA users in the US alone and they’re not going away anytime soon. |
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 GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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| said by SHABAZZ:America is a long way from a nation wide LTE network, it’s going to be 2014 before we even have spotty coverage and 2020 before that network replaces GSM completely. Apple is going to have to eat higher manufacturing cost to gain market share. There is close to 150 million CDMA users in the US alone and they’re not going away anytime soon. Really, half the entire population of the US?
Verizon (87.7m subs). Sprint (48.8). 136.5m, not even close to 150m subs.
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| said by Gbcue:said by SHABAZZ:America is a long way from a nation wide LTE network, it’s going to be 2014 before we even have spotty coverage and 2020 before that network replaces GSM completely. Apple is going to have to eat higher manufacturing cost to gain market share. There is close to 150 million CDMA users in the US alone and they’re not going away anytime soon. Really, half the entire population of the US? Verizon (87.7m subs). Sprint (48.8). 136.5m, not even close to 150m subs. 136.5m is only 13.5 million away from 150m. |
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| Throw in MetroPCS, Cricket/Leap, and all the other small, regional, and/or rural CDMA operators.
You get the remainder pretty easily. |
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Yep, there seems to be around one mobile device for every individual in America. The thing that inflates this number is the fact that they’re a lot of people with more than one phone. My job provides me with a phone and I have one myself as well. There are a lot of people in that same boat. And they’re more than two CDMA carriers in the US. Cricket, MetroPCS, Tracfone, and US Cellular all come to mind. America doesn’t always follow Europe’s lead. We tend to let the consumers decide what to go with. And on a side note new wireless growth is going to come from Africa, China and India in the future because the US and Europe is so saturated already. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | reply to Gbcue
Ummm... really? yes.. your thinking is skewed when it comes to numbers of lines vs. population. I'm one person and I have a sprint phone and an iPhone. Someone in my home has a Sprint phone AND a Sprint phone.. his Comcast line is ran by Sprint as well. His boss carries two company phones AND a personal phone..
Its NOT uncommon for someone to have more than one phone in their hand be it by choice OR by reason of employment.
... care to do your math again? |
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