"Video alone isn't any kind of key differentiator" as Cox seeks to attract wireless subscribers, he said.
China has 500 million wireless subscribers, tops in the world, and adds another 6 million a month.
The company reported a 2.8 million increase in wireless subscribers, a quarterly record.
He said only half of global wireless subscribers currently have access to the iPhone, something that will help expansion.
India, with a population of 1 billion, not far off China's 1.3 billion, has fewer than 40m wireless subscribers.
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He said only half of global wireless subscribers currently have access to the iPhone, leaving plenty of room for expansion.
But just 1.3% of the nearly 200 million U.S. wireless subscribers are watching mobile video, according to wireless research firm M:Metrics.
The company now has 93 million wireless subscribers, including 88 million post-paid.
Speaking of phones, recent data reveals there are some 929 million wireless subscribers in India, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
We anticipate strong 3G subscriber trends in China will continue, as 3G subscribers account for only 10% of the 928M Chinese wireless subscribers.
Sprint Nextel also said that for the third quarter, it looks forward to nailing an additional 1.2 million wireless subscribers, bringing its total to 45 million.
From today, Republic Wireless subscribers in waves B through E will have 30 days to evaluate their service, and if it's unacceptable, may seek a full refund from the provider.
And Agency.com is working with London-based Carphone Warehouse, the largest European wholesaler of mobile phones, to create a customizable wireless portal that delivers weather forecasts, local news and e-commerce services to wireless subscribers.
T-Mobile unit, which has an exclusive sponsorship deal with the National Basketball Association, remains in fourth place among the nation's wireless carriers by subscribers.
Having completed its acquisition of Omnisky wireless Internet service in January, EarthLink is ready to sign up new subscribers for its wireless service.
Both wireless carriers and mobile subscribers currently are saddled with data caps: price plans limiting the amount of data customers can access depending on their payment plan.
With close to 700 million subscribers, China Mobile is the largest wireless carrier in the world and has twice as many subscribers as China Unicom.
According to Motorola, the world has about 800m fixed-line subscribers, 200m wireless users and about 200m Internet users.
And not least, he thinks Sprint and T-Mobile will both almost certainly lose subscribers to Verizon Wireless as it begins selling the iPhone.
With close to 670 million subscribers, China Mobile is the largest wireless carrier in the world and has almost six times as many subscribers as China Telecom.
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T-Mobile is the fourth-largest mobile wireless telecommunications services provider in the United States as measured by subscribers, and serves approximately 33.6 million wireless connections to wireless devices.
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This will in turn result in modest postpaid subscriber gains for the carrier, especially now that an increasingly saturated wireless market has made the acquisition of new subscribers, especially those that pay for the higher-margin data plans, very tough for the wireless carriers.
Nikhil Hutheesing, editor of Forbes Wireless Stock Watch, had told subscribers to buy before the spike in price.
The carrier managed to grow earnings on strong smartphone adoption, but struggled to add postpaid subscribers in a saturated wireless market.
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T-Mobile is the fourth largest U.S. wireless carrier with about 33 million subscribers before its recent merger with MetroPCS, which added 9 million additional users.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Verizon Communications is in talks with Google 's YouTube to push its short video clips to Verizon Wireless cellphones as well as to subscribers to its fiber-optic TV service.
The big idea here is to offer packages that bundle together cable TV, cable Internet, VoIP, and wireless services and offer them to subscribers at a price that would be less than signing up for each service individually.
Data on US mobile subscribers is taken from CTIA Wireless Association Year-End Survey Report.
Unlike the AOL service, EarthLink's wireless access is not limited to landline subscribers.
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