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To: Gregg Powers who wrote (8808)2/24/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: John Cuthbertson  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
"I suggest that you look at GROSS SUBSCRIBER ADDITIONS (which reflect underlying equipment sales) rather than net-adds or cancelations.
BTW, the same applies to Sprint in the U.S. .... Assuming a 5% annualized churn rate..., Sprint would consume another 50,000 phones above and beyond its net subscriber number."

Gregg,
Unfortunately, I doubt that this is really true. People canceling their service can re-sell their phones, and I would assume that most would indeed do so in order to recoup some of what they spent for them. Therefore the total equipment sales would in fact be closer to the net subscriber additions than to the gross.

Thanks for your contributions on the thread.

==John
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