Dennis Ferguson wrote:

> Note that it shouldn't surprise anyone (or be interpreted as an
> "iPhone effect") if AT&T adds significantly more than 1.3 million
> total customers in the most recent quarter. I don't know why 1.3
> million would be "expected". AT&T did add only 1.3 million net
> customers in the previous quarter, but that included a one-time
> not-to-be-repeated loss of 600,000 TDMA customers when they shut that
> network down in February.

Did a larger percentage of those 600K customers go elsewhere?

A "normal" quarter for AT&T sees closer to
> 2 million customers added, if they do significantly less than that
> this time around then something is really screwed up.

4Q2007 they added 2.7 million (though unlike Verizon, a large number of
these were prepaid and MVNO).

2Q2007 they were at 1.5 million additions. Since 4Q includes Xmas and
the numbers are higher than in 2Q.

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