Ouch! Because of the Verizon iPhone??
Nearly half a million customers left T-Mobile in Q1 2011 -- Engadget
Nearly half a million customers left T-Mobile in Q1 2011 -- Engadget
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Ouch! Because of the Verizon iPhone??
Nearly half a million customers left T-Mobile in Q1 2011 -- Engadget
Ouch! Because of the Verizon iPhone??
Nearly half a million customers left T-Mobile in Q1 2011 -- Engadget
Not necessarily. ATT's iPhone won't allow 3G on TMO's network due to hardware limitations. Back in the day of the original iPhone this was plausible. Nowadays you would have to go without high speed interent if using an iPhone, which is just silly.if that was the case then they could of stayed with t mobile and got the iPhone through at&t.
Not necessarily. ATT's iPhone won't allow 3G on TMO's network due to hardware limitations. Back in the day of the original iPhone this was plausible. Nowadays you would have to go without high speed interent if using an iPhone, which is just silly.
As a T-Mo user, I too think it had more to do w/ the AT&T thing than the Verizon iPhone (lmao). I think the general consumer reaction was to pick up & run instead of wait it out to see what happens.
Also, I personally think it has a TON to do w/ T-Mo's abysmal marketing. T-Mo has great phones & great plans...but no one knows about them, not even their own customers. I'm sure people see commercials for phones like the Thunderbolt & Atrix & say "Ooh I want that!" They don't even properly advertise their own top phones that would be a draw for anyone, like the G2x. To make matters worse, they dumb down some of their best phones, like the MyTouch 4G. If they would've dropped the MyTouch branding & went w/ regular sense rather than the MySense or whatever you call it, the perception of this phone would've been a LOT different. The Carly ads (while cute) are a blatant rip off of the Mac vs PC ads & people know it. Other than that, T-Mo's advertising is basically non-existent. Regardless, it's too little too late for them now. No one will want to jump on a sinking ship at this point. If by some miracle the FCC doesn't approve the buyout I would sincerely hope that T-Mo will learn from their mistakes.
Ouch! Because of the Verizon iPhone??
Nearly half a million customers left T-Mobile in Q1 2011 -- Engadget
Exactly. I'm one of them.Where do you get that it's because of the Verizon iPhone? I don't see Apple or the iPhone mentioned in that article. My guess is it has more to do with AT&T buying T-Mobile, and those people that left T-Mobile did so because they want no part of AT&T.
As a T-Mo user, I too think it had more to do w/ the AT&T thing than the Verizon iPhone (lmao). I think the general consumer reaction was to pick up & run instead of wait it out to see what happens.
Also, I personally think it has a TON to do w/ T-Mo's abysmal marketing. T-Mo has great phones & great plans...but no one knows about them, not even their own customers. I'm sure people see commercials for phones like the Thunderbolt & Atrix & say "Ooh I want that!" They don't even properly advertise their own top phones that would be a draw for anyone, like the G2x. To make matters worse, they dumb down some of their best phones, like the MyTouch 4G. If they would've dropped the MyTouch branding & went w/ regular sense rather than the MySense or whatever you call it, the perception of this phone would've been a LOT different. The Carly ads (while cute) are a blatant rip off of the Mac vs PC ads & people know it. Other than that, T-Mo's advertising is basically non-existent. Regardless, it's too little too late for them now. No one will want to jump on a sinking ship at this point. If by some miracle the FCC doesn't approve the buyout I would sincerely hope that T-Mo will learn from their mistakes.
...The firm chalked its loss to increased "competitive pressures," which lends credence to AT&T's insistence that Sprint and Verizon are such fierce opponents that it has to acquire T-Mobile for the magenta-tinted carrier to stay in the game."
Do you believe that this company was mis-managed?
What are your inputs?
If the company was manage well this kind of event might be avoided. Do you all agree?
As a Tmo customer I can almost guarantee it is because of the at&t buy out. I almost paid the etf and left myself but after at&t buys it in a year my contact should be null. If I wasn't under contact I would be with sprint right now.
Although I think that is the perception.. I just don't know that that is a reality yet.. HSPA+ has been doing pretty well, and with more upgrades to come, I just don't think that LTE is the game changer many would like everyone to believe... The big hope that customers had, that we would suddenly have this interchangeable standard that you could migrate from carrier to carrier isn't going to happen in the US either.. Yes LTE may eventually be better than sliced bread, but I think what us being done with HSPA+ is pretty good and right now LTE isn't enough of an improvement to make me switch.Second, note that, of all the possible 4G technologies, LTE is going to be needed to compete.
According to official Q1 financials, 471,000 contract customers either failed to re-up, or outright canceled their contracts.
Does this mean that included in the 471,000 "lost" customers they're including people still with T-Mobile but not on contract? Since they are a lower cost carrier it wouldn't surprise me if they have a higher than average percentage of customers that keep using their older phone (or buy a used one outright) and don't extend their contract once it's 1 or 2 year term has expired. They're still T-Mobile customers though...
Not necessarily. ATT's iPhone won't allow 3G on TMO's network due to hardware limitations. Back in the day of the original iPhone this was plausible. Nowadays you would have to go without high speed interent if using an iPhone, which is just silly.