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Re:FCC fines robocaller record $120M by pboutros on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:56AM (#17047714)
I think the answer is that it is not a pretty competitive market.

The two biggest carriers have a 1-2% monthly churn rate.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/283511/average-monthly-c...

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Re:FCC fines robocaller record $120M by hunter23 on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:44PM (#17049344)
2% monthly churn is not low. That annualizes to ~25% which is significant. The cost per acquisition of getting a new customer is actually quite high so their churn numbers definitely hurt them.
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Re:FCC fines robocaller record $120M by kingnothing on Friday May 11, 2018 @07:45PM (#17051526)
When there are only 4 carriers in the US, it doesn't really matter. AT&T will lose a customer to Sprint, Sprint loses one to T-Mobile, T-Mobile loses one to Verizon, and Verizon loses one to AT&T. No one is getting rid of their cell phones.
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Re:FCC fines robocaller record $120M by rtkwe on Saturday May 12, 2018 @06:22PM (#17056323)
The point is they still have to spend the money to make keep their flows positive otherwise they'll bleed customers to the other 3 and die eventually.
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