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## Video: Is The ‘Uncarrier’ T-Mobile Ready To Unseat The Competition?

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_Published 2014-10-28. T-Mobile's unconventional strategy is gaining momentum as the fourth-place mobile carrier posted its biggest growth quarter of company history._


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## Transcript

T- Mobile's unconventional strategy is gaining momentum. As the fourth place mobile carrier posted it's biggest growth quarter in company history. The carrier looks unstoppable with more than 2. 3 million new customers this quarter. Making it the companies sixth straight quarter with more than a million new customers. So, what spurred all this growth? It might be the bold moves that shook up and probably angered its competitors in the mobile carrier industry. A big piece was its Uncarrier campaign, where the company promoted freedom from contracts. So what are you going to do? Something better.

But to end contracts before they expire. Someone needs to pay the early termination fees, so T- Mobile decided it would do that too. This is serious, philosophical change, the end of early termination fees, which we believe is important because it's the death knoll in contracts. We're gonna eliminate the entire ETF. That's when the other carriers got nervous. AT & T preemptively targeted T- Mobile customers ahead of the announcement. With up to $ 450 per line to switch. And Sprint, nervous it might lose its market share, has launched a similar promotion. As Computer World reported in August, 3rd place Sprint has had trouble fending off T- Mobiles assault.

Its wireless market share fell to 16 % of all U. S wireless subscribers. Just barely staying ahead of T- Mobile's at 15 %. All this growth has come at a cost, though. While analysts expected a profit of 2 cents per share for T- Mobile, the company actually posted a net loss of 12 cents a share. The company said the loss was due to higher selling and administrative costs.

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