{"id":1329,"date":"2006-08-06T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2006-08-06T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T07:45:00","slug":"sweeps-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Sweeps week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">A couple of general wireless industry notes, now that Rogers, Bell and TELUS have all released their numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total wireless industry revenues are up 17% and subscribers are up 11% &#8211; average revenue per user is up across the board as subscribers buy more data, messaging, etc.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>All three wireless carriers are showing improvements in their churn figures. Fewer people are switching carriers. We think that this is due, at least in part, to customers standing pat with their current carrier waiting until number portability allows them to take their number with them in March 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: rgb(51,204,0);font-size:78%;\">Technorati Tags:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Rogers\" rel=\"tag\">Rogers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Bell\" rel=\"tag\">Bell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/TELUS\" rel=\"tag\">TELUS<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of general wireless industry notes, now that Rogers, Bell and TELUS have all released their numbers: Total wireless industry revenues are up 17% and subscribers are up 11% &#8211; average revenue per user is up across the board as subscribers buy more data, messaging, etc. All three wireless carriers are showing improvements in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1329\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweeps week<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sweeps week &#8226; 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