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| And what we wanted to be able to -- which has been very, very powerful for us, and what we wanted to be able to do is to partner with other kinds of brands and be able to extend that value to all of our customers |
| We'll talk more about that later and one-on-one meetings, if you'd like, on the advanced network capabilities, but we're just really pleased here |
| And if you can get more -- if customers can get more value by graduating up and getting more value and more services and more capability, that's great for customers and it's great for the overall industry as well |
| We have a superior set of assets, we have a superior cost structure |
| So that's continuing to grow and continue to do well for us |
| We streamlined and simplified that more, that has an opportunity to enhance overall shareholder value |
| So our overall consumer Postpaid ARPU is growing, which is fantastic |
| This is a business that continues to grow, revenues continues to grow, cash flows at the industry level |
| And then, when you look at this business for customers, it's a great business as well, because our customers are getting more value than ever on networks that are better than ever |
| So we're very pleased with the competitive environment that's happening out there |
| You've been successful in growing Postpaid Phone ARPU over the past few years through mix and offering new premium plans like Magenta MAX and more recently Go5G |
| Again, simplify and streamline, grab a little bit of that operational efficiency, make it better for customers and hopefully create even more value for our shareholders |
| We're very, very pleased with that space, but anything that we would do here has to be a win-win for our company and for the industry at large |
| It gives us a lot of confidence |
| The trials that we're doing today we're very pleased with |
| And that's underscored by the growing strength in enterprise, which I believe bodes well for attracting more and more consumers at the higher end of the market |
| And what you're seeing in our business is that in Q4, we had the very best overall net ads for our business segments |
| But what's really great is 5G leadership has now translated into overall network leadership, and what you're seeing is you're seeing third parties continue to validate the unique leadership position that we're in as a company |
| If we believe, which we do, that we have the very best value and we have the very best product in the form of the network and we have the very best experience, then there's no reason why we shouldn't be the leader in this space |
| This has always been an opportunity for us prior to the merger with Sprint and for us to be able to advance our network leadership |
| Now we have the opportunity to go and attract customers who are looking for a great network paired with that great value |
| And so that's really, really great for us |
| So it's been really exciting |
| And because of this merger that we did the Sprint and we're able to put this network together like we have, we are the only one out there that can offer the very best value, and in the cases in the top 100 markets, the very best network |
| And what we've seen with T Life so far is, really good participation, strong engagement |
| And you think about the scale of our company and what we can do to further serve the underserved is something that we're really excited about, should the transaction be approved |
| So if you could take a lower churn and a lower upgrade rate, that bodes well for us |
| It's been fantastic |
| When you look at our overall prime mix, we just feel fantastic about that |
| And that's a real game changer for us that allows us to continue to move upstream and more and more prime customers who are looking for this incredible network performance |
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| Now, our position has always been that this is an excess capacity model, excess capacity, fallow capacity |
| As a category, it's seen modest declines in subscribers over the past few years |
| There continues to be debate over the sustainability of fixed wireless as a competitive access technology, just given increasing consumer bandwidth needs |
| That was basically the promises that if you could see the sky that, you will have connectivity and it's one of the big pain points, particularly if you think about the vast American West and how much just ground there is to cover |
| Just maybe, to shift gears a little bit, upgrade rates have been very low across the industry for a while now, especially in 2023 |
| One big indicator that you just can't escape is when you look at the higher end of the market and the prime credit worthiness is, how's your bad debt going? And we look at bad debt as a percentage of total revenues, and that is lower sequentially and year-over-year in our last reported quarter in Q4 of 2023, and it's actually lower than our two benchmark competitors as well |
| The upgrade rates have been lower for us and really across the entire industry |
| Bryan Kraft You mentioned churn being so low |
| Like when you look at 2023 for us, we had our lowest Postpaid Phone churn rate in company history at 0.87% |
| And we unintentionally may have caused one with lots of benefits and lots of services fragmented across many digital properties |
| And so naturally that's just going to slow down just a little bit more, and again, to the tune of about 400,000 per quarter |
| When you look at our principal competitors, they've been lower as well |
| Sometimes there's a little bit more growth, sometimes it's slight growth, sometimes it's slightly negative as well in terms of the growth cycle and on a quarter-by-quarter basis |
| So the overall industry growth had been elevated during the pandemic, and our position has always been is that, that would moderate over time |
| For us on the terrestrial networks, that becomes a little harder to do |
| It's hard to have insight into exactly that, but our view is that it would've moderated over time |
| And what I said at the very beginning too is when you look at what customers are getting for what they pay, there's never been a better value proposition in this industry than right here, right now for customers |
| If it's more muted and -- after the pandemic and there's lower overall switching, no problem |
| First of all, the overall upgrade cycles are lengthening, one |
| And the competition in this business has been intense and it remains intense |
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