Re: 3Q 2007: another successful quarter for Verizon Wireless

On 2007-10-30, Larry <noone@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark Crispin <MRC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:alpine.WNT.0.9999.0710291733080.3152@Tomobiki-
Cho.CAC.Washignton.EDU:

61.8 million retail customers and 63.7 total customers.

Is it just me or does something NOT add up?? This is the biggest
carrier in the USA. Now, in another thread, I posted that the
manufacturers made about 286,000,000 Sellphones in the last
quarter, right? That's a LOT of new Sellphones! Nokia, alone,
made over 100,000,000! Places outside America must be just
swimming in new Sellphones!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators

Verizon may (or may not, since AT&T is very close to the same size)
be the biggest carrier in the USA, but in terms of subscribers Verizon
may not even be in the top 10 in the world. According to the list
above the top 20 carriers in the world alone have about 1.8 billion
customers, and there are lots and lots of smaller companies not on
the top 20 list.

Most of the market for mobile phones is outside the US.

Dennis Ferguson
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