http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Verizon follows AT&T on the black ink trail http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/May 1st 2008 2:41AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/Verizon's numbers, according to your graph, look a lot more impressive over AT&T's being that they trail them in total customers.

It looks like VZW does a better job in attracting retail-direct customers than its larger rival which helps it in margins despite having slightly few total subscribers. ]]>Apr 30th 2008 9:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/
The reason I will be switching from AT&T to Verizon when my contract is up this fall: Much more EV-DO coverage nationwide than AT&T's 3G coverage.

AT&T should listen to Verizon's ads. If they focused on "the network" more, they would probably leave Verizon in their dust with their better phones and slightly less vindictive pricing models. But no, the 3G rollout has been painfully slow.

As long as I have no 3G in most of my county (one of the more populous in Northern Virginia), I'll be lining the pockets of a /different/ greedy, dishonest, faceless cellular provider...]]>Apr 30th 2008 11:51PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/04/30/verizon-follows-atandt-on-the-black-ink-trail/
AT&T grossed a record 5 million new customers in the first quarter...that's a record for ALL carriers, not just AT&T. But since their overall churn remained flat at 1.7%, they netted much fewer customers than Verizon.

For every tenth of a percentage point that AT&T lowers their churn, they'll retain and in turn improve their net adds by approximately 200,000 customers. This is where they need to put their focus on; retention. They're ahead of the game with everything else.]]>May 1st 2008 12:16AM