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To: Cogito who wrote (11535)	10/22/2011 2:45:51 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

"Your claim that a majority of new post-paid subscribers chose 4G devices is correct." To be honest, I think the statistic he cited might be misleading... Net adds is not a defined class of customers, it's just a mathematical construct. Gross adds is all the new subscribers, and net adds is gross adds minus churn (customers lost). I calculate gross adds for Verizon as close to 2.6 million, and Verizon stated that net adds were 882k. My guess is that 441k of the gross adds (18%) chose an LTE connection, and that number happened to be 50% of the number of net adds. If we were to do the same math for 3G, it would show that 250% of net adds chose a 3G device. I expect this math to be over Sly's head, but I would appreciate someone with the ability to go over my speculation and inference.

To: Cogito who wrote (11535)	10/23/2011 6:06:49 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

The growth is with 4G and Android.... get used to it... BTW, did you noticed that iPhone sales were DOWN from Q2 at verizon??? LMFAO... too funny.... "During the third quarter, we added over 1.3 million total connections: 882,000 were retail postpaid net adds, 86,000 were retail prepaid and roughly 367,000 were wholesale and other connections. Importantly, 52% of the retail postpaid net adds in the quarter were 4G LTE smartphones and Internet devices, up from 30% in the second quarter. "