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Where will subscriber growth come from now that Sprint's iDEN network is shut down?
Sprint (NYSE:S) officially shut down its Nextel iDEN network at the end of June, and forecasted that during the second quarter it would "recapture" 30 to 40 percent of the remaining 1.31 million iDEN customers still left, and keep them on Sprint's network. That means, by Sprint's estimation, that at least 786,000 and as many as 917,000 iDEN customers left Sprint. Those customers presumably helped fatten the subscriber numbers for competitors in the second quarter. A major question facing the industry now though is, now that leaving iDEN subscribers won't be a source of subscriber growth for Sprint's competitors, where will growth come from? There are several possibilities for U.S. carriers, but I think they will all require creative thinking on the part of operators, a stronger focus on future growth opportunities and new device categories and, for some operators, a rethinking of how their service pricing plans are structured. The market may also need to recalibrate its expectations for growth. 556 Ventures analyst William Ho noted that the days of 1 million-plus postpaid additions per quarter may be coming to an end, if we're not there already. However, he said other markets, most notably Europe, have continued adding subscribers despite higher than 100-percent subscriber penetration. Here are a few of the main possibilities for potential subscriber growth in the months and years ahead:...Continued  More
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* General ad info: Click here | Today's Top News 1. 18% of Americans would sign on to a handset upgrade plan, according to survey
The device upgrade plans recently unveiled by T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS), AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) likely won't save too many customers money, but they could boost carriers' margins and increase smartphone sales for handset makers like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), analysts say. New Street Research said it recently conducted a survey "based on 1,000 demographically representative responses" and found that 37 percent of survey respondents said that they would adopt an installment plan, but that roughly half of those people changed their mind once they were told that they would pay more in total than with a regular two-year contract, suggesting real demand of 18 percent. Even still, New Street analyst Jonathan Chaplin concluded that the plans could boost AT&T and Verizon's margins by 1.5 to 3 percent (AT&T executives recently said they expected the company's Next plan to have a positive impact on margins.) Sprint (NYSE:S) has not announced a new upgrade plan, but Chaplin wrote that such a plan could boost Sprint's margins by 2-3 percent. The economic effect on T-Mobile, which allows more frequent device upgrades under its Jump plan than AT&T or Verizon, will be neutral, Chaplin wrote. "The plans are the equivalent of a price increase; carriers benefit at the expense of consumers. Those that adopt the plans would be voluntarily increasing their costs," Chaplin wrote. "Our survey suggests that a subset of consumers will do this for three reasons: 1) some don't realize that they are paying more in total on the installment plan; 2) some prefer paying more over time than paying a lump sum upfront; 3) some will pay more to get greater flexibility around upgrades. Our survey suggests that a combination of the last two factors will drive adoption--consumers seem to value this the way they would handset insurance or programs like Apple Care." Chaplin also wrote that the new plans could boost handset volumes by 6 to 9 million units annually, which equates to a 4-6 percent boost in smartphone volumes. "We believe high-end smartphones, like the iPhone and the [Samsung Electronics] Galaxy series, will see most of the increase. Offsetting this benefit is the risk that a vibrant refurbished device market hurts the handset vendors' volumes or pricing power over time," he wrote. Other analysts see an upside for handset makers as well. Average prices of smartphones will likely drop to $285 this year from $300 in 2012, Chetan Sharma, an independent wireless analyst, told Bloomberg. Increasing the rate of device upgrades could offset the negative effects of falling prices. "These plans appeal to people that are interested in the latest and greatest phones--those that are real mobile enthusiasts and can think ahead and know that they need more than one upgrade in the two years," IDC analyst Kevin Restivo told Bloomberg. Sharma said Apple has the most to gain from the new plans because consumers have learned to time contract upgrades to when a new iPhone is introduced annually. Although the plans are largely the same, each carrier offers a slightly different take on handset upgrades. Verizon's Edge program divides the cost of a phone over 24 months, and if after six months 50 percent of the retail price of the phone is paid, the customer can upgrade to a new device. Under AT&T's Next program, the cost of the phone is broken into 20 payments, and customers can upgrade after 12 months. Finally, with T-Mobile's Jump program, can pay $10 a month (in addition to the cost of their phone) and can then upgrade their phone twice every year. For more:
- see this Bloomberg article
- see this Seeking Alpha transcript
- see this GigaOM article
- see this AP article
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2. Canadian carriers, CEOs oppose potential Verizon entry into wireless market
A group of 150 leading Canadian CEOs as well as executives from Canada's three largest wireless carriers have in recent days expressed strong opposition to Canadian government regulations and rules that could pave the way for Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) to enter the Canadian wireless market. According to the Globe and Mail, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper late last week asking him to reconsider rules that the council's president, John Manley, said would give Verizon a preferential right to buy wireless spectrum. "Your government has clearly indicated its desire for increased competition in the telecommunications sector," Manley wrote in the letter to Harper. "While we as a council support that objective, we also believe that public policy should not discriminate against Canadian companies in favor of large foreign operators." Telus, BCE's Bell Mobility and Rogers Communications have recently launched a public relations blitz aimed at persuading the government to close what they call loopholes that they say were designed to help small wireless players, not large companies like Verizon. Canada's government last year relaxed restrictions on foreign ownership in small telecom companies with market share of 10 percent or less, in the hopes of increasing competition for incumbent carriers. And late last month, Canada's government, under the auspices of the Minister of Industry Christian Paradis, released new rules that will require all spectrum transfer requests to be reviewed. Further, "those that would result in undue spectrum concentration--and therefore diminish competition--will not be permitted," the government said. "Decisions on transfer requests will be made on a case-by-case basis and will be issued publicly to increase transparency." "There is no level playing field here," Manley told the Globe and Mail. Manley sits on Telus' board and Telus CEO Darren Entwistle is also a member of the Council of Chief Executives' board. Bell Mobility recently took out a two-page advertisement in major newspapers against the action, and top executives at Rogers and Telus expressed their opposition to Verizon's potential entrance in the market in media interviews and on calls with financial analysts. During Verizon's second-quarter earnings conference call, Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo said that Verizon is interested in exploring options to enter the Canadian wireless market, but he stressed that it is "really an exploratory exercise for us." He said most of Canada's population is between Toronto and Quebec, and that aligns with Verizon's coverage. He also said Canada's 700 MHz spectrum auction, set for January, will auction off licenses that align with Verizon's own 700 MHz holdings. Verizon reportedly made an initial offer of somewhere between $600 million and $800 million to buy fledgling Canadian wireless carrier Wind Mobile. Reports have also indicated that Verizon is in talks with rival wireless startup Mobilicity over a possible deal. Telus, Bell Mobility and Rogers Communications dominate around 90 percent of the market in Canada, and the 2008 AWS spectrum auction did little to break their hold on the market. Telus tried to buy Mobilicity earlier this year for around $363 million but the deal was blocked by the government. Some see the Canadian carriers' response as scare tactics. "They're trying to use the bogeyman of a U.S. company to scare Canadians into supporting a change to [current wireless] rules and really kind of push the government to doing an about-face on their policies," Steve Anderson, founder of OpenMedia, an advocacy group for affordable wireless access, told CBC News. For more:
- see this Globe and Mail article
- see this CBC News article Related Articles:
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3. Nokia exec frustrated with pace of Windows Phone software updates
Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) top executive in charge of application development expressed what appeared to be frustration with partner Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) slow pace of software innovation and updates for the Windows Phone platform. The two companies are working as closely as ever, according to executives, but in an interview with the International Business Times, Bryan Biniak, Nokia's vice president and general manager of app development, said Microsoft needs to do more to change how it approaches the mobile market. Biniak noted that Nokia has been releasing Lumia Windows Phones at an increasingly rapid pace, and indeed, the company has announced at least 10 new smartphones in the past 12 months. "We are releasing new devices frequently and for every new device, if there is an app that somebody cares about that's not there that's a missed opportunity of a sale," he said. "We are trying to evolve the cultural thinking [at Microsoft] to say 'time is of the essence,'" he said. "Waiting until the end of your fiscal year when you need to close your targets, doesn't do us any good when I have phones to sell today." Biniak noted that Nokia has a responsibility to "reinforce the message" that Microsoft has to speed up when it comes to mobile in order to create a stronger platform and application catalogue. A recent report from The Verge, citing unnamed sources, said Microsoft is working on the so-called Windows Phone Blue update, expected in early 2014--and rumors say the major upgrade will bring a notification center, enhanced multitasking and improvements to built-in applications, among other improvements. That timeline for a major update has sparked enthusiast frustration with Microsoft, which Joe Belfiore, Microsoft corporate vice president and manager for Windows Phone Program Management, responded to in an online plea for patience. Windows Phone captured 4 percent of the U.S. smartphone market in the second quarter, according to new data from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, increasing from 2.9 percent in the year-ago quarter, while BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) plummeted from 4 percent to just 1.1 percent, indicating that its overhauled BlackBerry 10 OS is doing little to revive consumer enthusiasm for the platform. Still, Biniak made it clear that more needs to be done to increase the number of apps in Microsoft's app store (currently around 165,000), to catch up to Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS. "To give you a reason to switch, I need to make sure the apps that you care about on your device are not only on our phones, but are better," he said. "I also need to provide you unique experiences that you can't get on your other devices." "People rely on applications for their day-to-day life and if you don't have something which I use in my day-to-day life I'm not going to switch [operating systems] because I don't want to compromise the way I live my life just to switch to a phone," the Nokia executive added. "It's not just about the hardware, it's about the tools that are on the hardware. You can't sell a phone without the apps, you just can't." Despite those remarks, Biniak said he doesn't believe there are any "major gaps" in the Windows Phone catalogue but admitted there are still "select applications that need to be there." In a separate interview with Engadget, Biniak said that major apps will arrive on Windows Phone sooner rather than later. For more:
- see this International Business Times article
- see this The Verge article
- see this Engadget article
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4. AT&T to snap up Iowa's Long Lines as wireless acquisitions continue
AT&T Mobility's (NYSE:T) acquisition spree is continuing, with the nations' No. 2 carrier agreeing to purchase the wireless assets and customers of Iowa-based Long Lines, the companies confirmed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Long Lines CEO Brent Olson announced the acquisition of the rural wireless carrier's assets late last week in an open letter to customers. As part of the deal, which AT&T said it expects to close in late 2013 or early 2014, AT&T also agreed to purchase transport services from Long Lines using its fiber optic network. This transaction does not affect any of Long Lines' non-wireless network services, including landline voice, broadband Internet and cable TV programming. Olson said that until the deal is complete it will continue to operate its business as normal, but that the transaction represents an opportunity for Long Lines customers to get access to AT&T's LTE network and more advanced devices. He said Long Lines plans to reinvest the proceeds of the sale to expand its non-wireless service offerings and fiber optic network. "As part of its commitment to providing a great mobile Internet experience, AT&T is enhancing its wireless coverage in northwestern Iowa," an AT&T spokeswoman said. Long Lines holds 700 MHz, AWS and PCS spectrum licenses, according to FCC data, mostly in Iowa, but also in others Midwestern states, including Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota. "We are always looking for opportunities to enhance our wireless network in a way that makes sense for the company, our customers and our shareholders," the AT&T spokeswoman said. "With this acquisition we're setting the foundation for wireless network enhancements in northwestern Iowa." The deal comes weeks after AT&T announced its plans to acquire regional prepaid carrier Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP). In the wake of that transaction, many analysts noted that more and more regional carriers are disappearing as the industry continues to consolidate. C Spire Wireless, U.S. Cellular (NYSE:USM), ATN, nTelos and Cincinnati Bell are among the last of the major Tier 2 wireless carriers that are still independent. Combined these carriers count around 7 million subscribers. Financial analysts have said U.S. Cellular and nTelos could be acquisition targets for larger carriers, while C Spire has vowed to remain independent. For more:
- see this Long Lines statement (PDF)
- see this Channel Partners article
- see KIWA Radio article
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5. Low-cost iPhone details revealed in report on labor conditions at Apple supplier
Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) long-rumored low-cost iPhone appears to have been confirmed in a new report by advocacy group China Labor Watch, which took Apple supplier Pegatron to task for labor practices that include using underage workers, paying insufficient wages and forcing employees to work overtime. The low-cost iPhone, which many analysts have speculated Apple will release this fall to capture more of the smartphone market, was mentioned several times in the report. The mentions were first spotted by VentureBeat, which confirmed that the practices listed in the report were observed between March and July of 2013. In the report's description of the Pegatron factories, it notes that products assembled there include the "iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and low-priced plastic iPhones." According to The Verge, one part of the report discusses a worker's typical day at Pegatron: "Today's work is to paste protective film on the iPhone's plastic back cover to prevent it from being scratched on assembly lines. This iPhone model with a plastic cover will soon be released on the market by Apple." "At this moment, in Shanghai, China, workers in Apple's supplier factory Pegatron are monotonously working long overtime hours to turn out a scaled-back, less expensive version of the iPhone," the report says. The New York-based labor advocacy group found at least 86 labor rights violations while investigating three Pegatron factories from March to July. Apple has been in close contact with the group for several months, but the report contains "claims that are new to us," and those will be investigated immediately, Carolyn Wu, a Beijing-based spokeswoman for Apple, told Bloomberg. "We will investigate these new claims thoroughly, ensure that corrective actions are taken where needed and report any violations of our code of conduct," Wu said. "We will not tolerate deviations from our code." According to the Wall Street Journal, in March 2012, Apple supplier Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., said it would change its workplace policies after an audit, requested by Apple and conducted by the U.S.-based nonprofit Fair Labor Association, found numerous breaches of Chinese law and Apple's labor policies at three factories. The changes, which include a reduction in overtime and safety improvements, are scheduled to take effect this month. Pegatron factories "are even worse than those at Foxconn," CLW Executive Director Li Qiang said in a statement today. The group's report chronicled alleged safety issues, loud noise of assembly line machines, long shifts during which workers were required to stand, and poor living conditions in packed dorms. For more:
- see this VentureBeat article
- see this The Verge article
- see this Bloomberg article
- see this WSJ article (sub. req.)
- see this Reuters article
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Also Noted SPOTLIGHT ON... Report: Dish's Ergen could personally profit from LightSquared takeover Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) Chairman Charlie Ergen could make hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit if his bid to acquire LightSquared's spectrum assets in bankruptcy succeeds, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The report, citing court records and unnamed sources familiar with the situation, notes that Ergen, through an entity called SP Special Opportunities, purchased LightSquared's bank debt at a discounted rate and could profit if Dish succeeds in buying LightSquared. SP Special Opportunities is wholly-owned by Ergen and Ergen accumulated LightSquared debt worth more than $1 billion, but the report said some trades for the debt were around 50 or 60 cents on the dollar, with other purchases made for higher prices. Sound Point Capital Management, a hedge fund run by Stephen Ketchum, a former banker with ties to Ergen, made the trades on behalf of SP Special Opportunities. Dish's $2.2 billion bid for LightSquared would repay lenders owed roughly $1.7 billion fully with interest. According to the report, Dish formed a special committee of the company's board earlier this year to decide whether to make a bid for LightSquared, and the special committee comprised independent directors and excluded Ergen. The special committee wanted to ensure an offer would be an arm's length transaction given Ergen's positions in LightSquared debt, and Dish's full board approved a decision to submit a reorganization plan for LightSquared alongside other lenders. During that process, the special committee also received a "fairness opinion" from a financial advisory firm, according to regulatory filing. A group of LightSquared's lenders filed a reorganization plan in bankruptcy court last week that would largely follow the lines of Dish's proposed acquisition of LightSquared's spectrum assets. LightSquared is one of the many wireless options that Dish's Ergen has pursued. Dish recently dropped its bids to purchase Sprint (NYSE:S) and Clearwire. Analysts have said Dish may now try to partner with T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS). Article (sub. req.) Quick news from around the Web. @FierceWireless: RT@FierceMobiCo: Kantar: Android tops U.S. smartphone sales in Q2, but Apple slashes lead - Article | Follow@FierceWireless > Android tablets secured a robust 67 percent global share in the second quarter, according to Strategy Analytics, while Apple iOS declined further to 28 percent. Release > Apple's developer center is back up and running. Article > LG's G2 will reportedly launch across 100 carriers. Article > BlackBerry's Q5 is rumored to be headed to AT&T Mobility. Article > Apple's Bob Mansfield will no longer be the company's technologies chief and will instead work on special projects. Article > MediaTek confirmed it is building a chip with eight cores. Article > Google's Motorola will reportedly offer "Magic Glass" with its new Moto X. Article > Sony's "Honami" smartphone appears to have entered the FCC device database. Article Mobile Content News > Apple is building speech recognition services to power its Siri virtual assistant for iOS, a move to end the company's dependence on voice and natural language technologies provider Nuance Communications, Xconomy reports. Article > While a significant number of popular applications optimized for Apple's iPad have yet to migrate to tablets running Google's Android mobile operating system, the disparity between the two ecosystems is shrinking, contends Hugo Barra, Google's vice president of Android product management. Article Broadband Wireless News > NTT DoCoMo said it on July 30 it will begin verifying an upgrade that will enable its Xi-branded LTE network to deliver maximum downlink speeds of 150 Mbps. Article > What is left of former WiMAX vendor Alvarion, which is hobbled by $24 million in debt, is reportedly being eyed for takeover by another Israeli company called Sigma Wave. Article European Wireless News > Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE will share a $1.6 billion contract for the expansion of Ethiopia's existing mobile infrastructure and to introduce 3G across the country and LTE services in the capital of Addis Ababa. Article > The lack of LTE access in Europe is becoming embarrassing. Editor's Corner And finally… A Canadian launched a crowdfunding campaign to purchase Mobilicity. Article > Getting started with carrier WiFi - what's it take for a great user experience? - August 27th, 11am ET/ 8am PT Meeting customer expectations has never been more challenging than it is today. Learn how Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess™ Wireless LAN switch family and Access Point product line can help you deliver the Wi-Fi solution your customers want and create new revenue streams. Register Today!
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