U.S. wireless carriers may end 2013 with “virtually”...
U.S. wireless carriers may end 2013 with “virtually” no additions to their postpaid subscriber rolls -- a reversal from 2012, when carriers added 600,000 new postpaid customers, said UBS analyst John Hodulik in an email Wednesday to investors. U.S. carriers…
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added 1 million postpaid subscribers in 2011. Subscriber growth will decelerate more quickly at top-two carriers Verizon Wireless and AT&T as a result of “increasing competitiveness” from Sprint and T-Mobile US, Hodulik said. The predicted lack of growth “will be compounded by the smaller carriers’ efforts to roll out LTE and improve overall network quality,” he said. The industry will become more competitive overall over the next 18 months as a result of Sprint and T-Mobile’s moves to “close the gap” separating them from Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Hodulik said.