US telecom regulator Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday shared the latest U.S. wireless market share of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.
Verizon Wireless, the wireless market leader, has 129.61 million subscribers in H1 2014 against 125.53 million in 2013.
AT&T has wireless subscriber base of 116.54 million in H1 2014 against 110.27 million in 2013.
The wireless subscriber base of Sprint, owned by SoftBank of Japan, is 54.08 million in H1 2014 as compared with 54.62 million in 2013.
T-Mobile has a wireless user base of 50.54 million in H1 2014 against 46.68 million in 2013.
The total estimated wireless connections in H1 2014 were 356.17 million against 347.25 million in 2013.
The Federal Communications Commission’s annual review of mobile industry competition found the two largest carriers, Verizon Communications and AT&T, together controlled around 70 percent of both the nationwide market share based on service revenues and the most-prized type of radio airwaves.
Sprint and T-Mobile controlled more than 95 percent of the industry’s mobile wireless service revenue, up from 91.5 percent the year before.
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