T-Mobile vs. Sprint: Which Wireless Carrier Ruled the Quarter? презентация

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Let’s take a quick look at head-to-head comparison of some key metrics:

Total subscribers
Earnings
Network quality

$192 million
Loss of $0.19 per share

Sprint’s financials:

T-Mobile’s financials:

Total revenue of $7.4 billion
Operating income of $49 million
Loss of $0.12 per share

when it introduced its Simple Choice postpaid plans last year
Though down year-over-year, postpaid ARPU was up slightly sequentially (1.1%)
Still a major area the company needs to address

T-Mobile’s trying to improve ARPU:

involuntary churn
4G LTE network upgrade is complete, which should help reduce customers leaving because of network problems
Postpaid phone net adds increased year-over-year for the first time in 2014

High churn rates for Sprint, but things are turning around:

to make big gains

million

This helps push T-Mobile closer to Sprint in total customers:

improving, but still behind T-Mobile
4G LTE points-of-presence (POPs) now at 260 million
New 2.5 GHz network is faster and more reliable, now reaches 100 million POPs

Network quality and 4G LTE points-of-presence:

Source: Sprint..

and Verizon Wireless
4G LTE POPs hit 250 million at the end of the quarter
Continued rollout of Wideband LTE network, which can improve speeds up to 50% in some areas

Network quality and 4G LTE points-of-presence:

Source: T-Mobile.

CEO in mid-August
To reduce costs, Sprint is cutting about 2,000 positions, which should save $400 million on an annualized basis

Other things to know about Sprint:

the past six quarters alone
Will have 300 million 4G LTE POPs in 2015, which will match AT&T and fall just short of Verizon’s 306 million

Other things to know about T-Mobile:

massive subscriber gains in combination with its superior network gives T-Mobile the win for this quarter
But both companies need to see their network upgrades and customer acquisitions turn into positive earnings for investors

So which carrier comes out on top in Q4?

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