It recently unveiled its own private-label subscriber service for those willing to pay a little extra to avoid advertising.
It recently unveiled its own private-label subscriber service for those who are willing to pay a little to avoid advertising.
But it may also spark renewed price competition between broadband service providers, such as phone companies like Verizon Communications pushing digital subscriber line service, and cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner offering cable modem service.
It says a phone or Internet service provider may not disclose subscriber information.
Despite these initiatives, the mobile carriers still lack the infrastructure necessary to deliver premium video services at a level of QoE that corresponds to the subscriber fees or service tier.
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That is faster than many digital subscriber lines' Internet service today, yet glacial next to the fiber-optic service now available to many consumers.
The company is in a high growth stage, despite hitting some road bumps in the most recent quarter in which it expects some subscriber losses due to service and cost restructuring.
Better yet, if you have a cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL) service, this server will let you access your files from anywhere that you have an Internet connection.
As a consequence to subscriber growth, costs of customer service and billings also grew.
Satellite radio service provider Sirius XM reported impressive revenue and subscriber growth in its Q4 2012 earnings results.
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Twenty-two minutes after a disgruntled Comcast subscriber posted a video of a service technician snoozing on the customer's couch during a service call last year, the cable giant knew about it.
For example, an online service provider who is having trouble growing its subscriber base might focus on instrumenting their marketing platforms to figure out what types of marketing is attracting the best customers.
Twenty-two minutes after a disgruntled Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) subscriber posted a video of a service technician snoozing on the customer's couch during a service call last year, the cable giant knew about it.
The service may also help AOL reduce churn, or subscriber turnover.
However, while sales in the developed markets of the U.S., Canada and U.K. continue to decline steeply, a sustained popularity of the BBM service in international markets has helped RIM defend its subscriber base quite well.
The satellite radio service provider also increased its full-year revenue and subscriber guidance.
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We have to take care of our subscriber customer, which means improve the quality of service.
Its subscriber-management operation is a paragon of customer service that shames the cable companies.
The ease of cancellation and rejoins is evidenced by the fact that approximately one-third of gross subscriber additions are former subscribers who have rejoined the service, many within the same year.
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The Company intends to continue to consider using pricing initiatives on BlackBerry 7 devices and service fees in some markets as a way to maintain our subscriber base and drive more BlackBerry users.
However, after the company raised its pricing and started offering a stand-alone streaming service in the U.S. in 2011, its DVD subscriber base fell significantly.
And as the market news service StreetAccount points out, the company notched far higher net new subscriber growth than expected: 373, 000, well above the Street at 203, 000.
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Aircell says it has hosted more than two million in-flight Wi-Fi sessions since turning on the service in 2008, but has never released revenue figures or revealed subscriber numbers.
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It may not be very lucrative to go after these customers as they do not bring in a lot of revenue, but Sprint has been able to capitalize on this subsidized service to attract low-end prepaid customers and post healthy net subscriber additions last quarter, signing on 1.3 million new subscribers.
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The Blockbuster streaming service was launched in late 2011, and has helped Dish improve its subscriber trends.
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Service providers pay for real-time TV services on a per-subscriber basis and for consumer purchases of a movie on-demand or a Pay-Per-View event via a transaction fee.
" Netflix is releasing all 13 episodes of the first season simultaneously on the hunch that the added convenience will foster more subscriber loyalty instead of encouraging people to sign up for the service for just a month or two to watch exclusive series such as "House of Cards.
Compared to the cable companies which have suffered consistent subscriber losses for the past few years, satellite pay-TV service providers have done well.
As the Netflix subscriber base and revenues have grown and as we have shifted our service offering toward streaming content, churn has become less relevant and management has come to rely more and more on net subscriber additions versus churn to monitor and describe the business.
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And while Microsoft currently offers digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access in conjunction with its MSN online service, it needs a cable modem offering to drive more traffic to all of its Web properties.
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