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T-Mobile US has continued to tap into widespread frustration with competing mobile phone carriers by adding 2.1 million customers in the last quarter of 2015 and tripling its profits. The Q4 results show the company's net income jumped to $297m from $101m one year previously. It also pulled in an additional 2.1 million …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Stats

    Lots of numbers there and a headline. Could we have some numbers that relate to each other say across timescales and so on please? The final point of share increase equals revenue increase is a fair one but it's hard to judge from the other numbers scattered about as to what is going on. A hint as to market share would be nice as well.

    Anyway, proper numbers please.

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    1. a_yank_lurker
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      Re: Stats

      The key stat noted in the article is T-Mobile is adding 1 to 2 million customers per quarter for over 2 years and they are apparently keeping them. In a mature market this means their market share has improved at someone's expense. Given the US population, it sounds like they have about 1/4 of the US market.

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    2. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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      Re: Stats

      And charts, please.

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  2. JoeF

    This article and the one from last year in the "More from the Register" section: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/11/tmobile_megahack_cost_experian_20m_with_class_actions_to_come/ have the same picture. Reuse much, eh?

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  3. jaffy2

    I'm a fan

    Moved away from Verizon when the iPhone 6S came out. I've been really impressed with TMo coverage; its either the same, or better than Verizon where I've travelled in the US. Where it really excels is international travel. I no longer have to play the game of coming out of airplane mode to update Google maps and back to airplane to conserve the 100mb of roaming data for $40 deal from Verizon.

    They did screw the pooch over BingeOn, but I'm glad I could just opt out.

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  4. fishman

    Proof

    Further proof that the proposed ATT-T Mobile merger was a bad idea.

    If anything it shows that the US need more choice, not less in cellphone companies.

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