But telecoms firms reckon it is better to cannibalise revenues than to lose a customer altogether.
Even if Apple did not lose a single customer, its market share would still decline as Amazon increases the overall size of the market.
Now, most lose money when a customer pays by credit card, says Lenard.
The Medicaid expansion could offer hospitals at least some reimbursement for 16 million of the newly insured patients, but if states opt not to finance their share of the growing safety net, hospitals in those markets would lose a share of their growing customer base.
Not wanting to lose out completely, we contacted a customer who we knew wanted the book, and offered to broker the deal for a small fee.
Professor DOUGLAS BAIRD (Law, University of Chicago Law School): You can't lose such a large part of your customer base and not expect that large employment consequences are going to follow.
And I can tell you, I am NOT a customer that they want to lose with the amount of money that I spend on this stuff, the vast majority of it being new.
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Dish Network acknowledged this threat in its recent earnings mentioning that while they may not lose customers as a result, they may lose ARPU (average monthly revenue per user) from that customer as more content is available on these alternate platforms.
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Without iPhone and iPad business lines, Apple would have almost nothing left and also lose all app and music customer base, which means Apple is too concentrated on a few hardware products like Motorola years ago.
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The mere prospect of such an exclusion, let alone its implementation, may well compel such companies to forego any future transactions in the country in question, rather than lose access to so important (both symbolically and financially) a U.S. customer.
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Network operators have traditionally viewed such programs as a threat, but the owner of O2 said it would "rather keep the customer than lose them to other products and services".
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