AT&T surpasses VZW, becomes #1 wireless carrier (again)
If total number of subscribers is your metric, you've done some really, really bad math.
Hombre07 said:
When the last earnings report came out we were only trailing by 450,000 subscribers. I think we had 94 million, or somewhere in that ballpark. It's very possible with some very accurate math.
CONGRATULATIONS!
You are comparing the "AT&T voice users plus machine2machine subscribers" against "Verizon phone connections only!"
So, despite being fairly good at math, you two might make lousy accountants.
Excluding Verizon's 7+ million m2m connections while simultaneously including 4+ million AT&T m2m connections is the same kind of thing they called "cooking the books" at a little firm called ENRON we've all heard of...
Including m2m services, Verizon is just over 100 mil...
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There will be a lot of exciting news next year, and it WON'T be coming from AT&T.