Comments on: Wireless Carriers and eReaders http://ireaderreview.com/2009/11/06/666k-q3-kindle-sprint-subscribers-35-per-subscriber/ Kindle Review, Kindle Fire Review, New Kindle Review, Kindle 4 Review Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dmoynihan http://ireaderreview.com/2009/11/06/666k-q3-kindle-sprint-subscribers-35-per-subscriber/#comment-6978 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:11:42 +0000 http://ireaderreview.com/?p=7424#comment-6978 I think if you look a little closer at the numbers, you’ll find that the prepaid Sprint’s talking about there are the phones sold through its Boost Mobile subsidiary (which added 764k users at an ARPU of $31 in an earlier Gigaom post).

Sprint is becoming an even bigger player in prepaid phones with its acquisition of Virgin Mobile, expected to close by the end of the year, and likely to boost ARPUs even further (VM users do more texting and such, paying for bit/splice plans, like may 200 texts a month for $5).

I’m afraid none of these numbers have anything to do with Sprint and Kindle.

Disclaimer: VM was under a buck this time last year, and, though I don’t usually brag about penny stocks, I got in right before it dropped another 30%, having held since.

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