So, the chances of T-Mobile poaching subscribers from rival carriers is limited for now.
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AOL's subscribers from drifting away from its own content towards the Internet's other riches.
Surf88 says it has subscribers from both Malaysia as well as outside the country but would not reveal its numbers.
Overall, the reduction was 1M subscribers from the previous forecast, and a 1.3M drop, if conservatively assumed all to be paid subscribers.
Netflix has been working towards improving its online movie portfolio lately, which could dissuade subscribers from moving into a higher priced package.
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The company added more than 1 million gross subscribers from used-car channel and expects to increase this figure to 1.5 million in 2013.
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In order to protect subscribers from price rises, pay-TV companies are pressuring media companies to reduce their proposed fee increases for their channels.
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The Recorder, based in San Francisco, has spun off California Law Week and a Web site (callaw.com), adding 45, 000 new subscribers from southern California.
The company added more than 1 million gross subscribers from the used-car channel in the last quarter and expects to increase this figure to 1.5 million in 2013.
BT's commitment, which until recently had been uncertain, Video Networks would still be stuck providing a trial service to 700 subscribers from shabby premises next to London's north-circular road.
Twice since then, XM has reduced its forecast of 2006 year-end subscribers from 9 million to 8.5 million, and more recently to a range of 7.7 million - 8.2 million.
If Netflix can acquire 30-40% of this market over long term, it can gain close to 5 million subscribers from Canada alone (accounting for growth in population and increase in broadband penetration).
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The U.S. pay-TV market is getting saturated and there is not much room left to grow, except for relying on the growth in total number of households or poaching subscribers from competitors.
By working together on this deal, Time Warner will be able to gain enough new subscribers from Adelphia to be able to buy back Comcast's stake without seriously damaging its own business.
And the only way Time Warner can afford to slough off that many customers is to gain lots of new subscribers from Adelphia, so the otherwise fiercely competitive companies have decided to cooperate.
Even if MetroPCS Communications was trying, as my opponent says, to protect subscribers from network slowdowns when it offered cellphone customers a lower-priced plan that blocked video streaming but allowed YouTube, it didn't have to grant exclusivity to one video service.
The number of subscribers increased from 13.8 million in 2006 to 14.06 million in 2012.
The number of retail subscribers increased from 2007 to 2008 due to the merger with XM.
The vast majority of new subscribers come from new car buyers, as they have for many years.
In its most recent earnings announcement, RIM revealed that last quarter, 80% of its new subscribers came from non-business users.
DirecTV has a little over 5 million subscribers in Brazil alone, with the remaining 5 million subscribers coming from Pan-Americana region.
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Between October 2008 and October 2010, the game only grew by half a million subscribers, from 11.5 million to 12 million.
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Gross margin, however, will likely remain higher because this increase will pull subscribers away from low incremental margin DVD plans to the virtual 100% incremental margin streaming service.
Pricing schemes that tie handset and credit card together might also help to keep mobile subscribers loyal from next year, when they will be allowed to keep their number if they switch operators.
Moreover, the extra subscribers gained from this move will contribute in long term and therefore, more than offset any short term negative impact on revenue per subscriber that one may see in upcoming quarter.
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Zipwhip pioneered the concept of "cloud texting"-freeing text messaging from the mobile device to allow mobile subscribers to text from virtually any connected device with a fully synchronized experience to their main mobile number.
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Clearwire ended third quarter 2012 with approximately 10.5 million total subscribers, up 10% from 9.5 million subscribers in third quarter 2011.
Netflix (NFLX) this afternoon provided powerful evidence of how its business model will benefit from the steady shift of subscribers to streaming and away from through-the-mail DVD rentals.
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Data on US mobile subscribers is taken from CTIA Wireless Association Year-End Survey Report.
The Times now has 324, 000 digital-only subscribers, up from 281, 000 at the start of the quarter.
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