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The following table shows (a) net additions (losses) of wireless subscribers and (b) our total subscribers as of the end of each quarterly period for the past twelve quarters.
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Quarter Ended
March 31,
2009 June 30,
2009 September 30, 2009 December 31,
2009 March 31,
2010 June 30,
2010 September 30, 2010 December 31,
2010 March 31,
2011 June 30,
2011 September 30, 2011 December 31,
2011
Net additions (losses) (in
thousands)(1)
Sprint platform:
Postpaid(2) (530) (393) (271) 3 (131) 136 276 453 253 226 265 539
Prepaid(3) (90) (161) (135) (48) 392 638 1,171 1,414 1,406 1,149 839 899
Wholesale and affiliates 394 (43) (410) (79) 155 166 280 393 389 519 835 954
Total Sprint
platform (226) (597) (816) (124) 416 940 1,727 2,260 2,048 1,894 1,939 2,392
Nextel platform:
Postpaid (720)
(598) (530) (507) (447) (364) (383) (395) (367) (327) (309) (378)
Prepaid(3) 764 938 801 483 (44) (465) (700) (768) (560) (475) (354) (392)
Total Nextel
platform 44 340 271 (24) (491) (829) (1,083) (1,163) (927) (802) (663) (770)
Total retail postpaid net
additions (1,250) (991) (801) (504) (578) (228) (107) 58 (114) (101) (44) 161
Total retail prepaid net
additions 674 777 666 435 348 173 471 646 846 674 485 507
Total wholesale and affiliate
net additions 394 (43) (410) (79) 155 166 280 393 389 519 835 954
Total Wireless (182) (257) (545) (148) (75) 111 644 1,097 1,121 1,092 1,276 1,622
End of period subscribers
(in thousands)(1)
Sprint platform(4):
Postpaid(2)(6) 26,538 26,145 25,874 26,712 26,581 26,717 26,993 27,446 27,699 27,925 28,190 28,729
Prepaid 774 613 478 4,969 5,361 5,999 7,121 8,535 9,941 11,090 11,929 12,828
Wholesale and affiliates
(5)(6) 9,384 9,341 8,931 3,478 3,633 3,799 4,128 4,521 4,910 5,429 6,264 7,218
Total Sprint platform 36,696 36,099 35,283 35,159 35,575 36,515 38,242 40,502 42,550 44,444 46,383 48,775
Nextel platform:
Postpaid 8,890 8,292 7,762 7,255 6,808 6,444 6,061 5,666 5,299 4,972 4,663 4,285
Prepaid 3,497 4,435 5,236 5,719 5,675 5,210 4,510 3,742 3,182 2,707 2,353 1,961
Total Nextel
platform 12,387 12,727 12,998 12,974 12,483 11,654 10,571 9,408 8,481 7,679 7,016 6,246
Total retail postpaid end of
period subscribers(6) 35,428 34,437 33,636 33,967 33,389 33,161 33,054 33,112 32,998 32,897 32,853 33,014
Total retail prepaid end of
period subscribers 4,271 5,048 5,714 10,688 11,036 11,209 11,631 12,277 13,123 13,797 14,282 14,789
Total wholesale and
affiliates end of period
subscribers(6) 9,384 9,341 8,931 3,478 3,633 3,799 4,128 4,521 4,910 5,429 6,264 7,218
Total Wireless 49,083 48,826 48,281 48,133 48,058 48,169 48,813 49,910 51,031 52,123 53,399 55,021
(1) Subscribers that transfer from their original service category classification to another platform, or another service line within the same platform, are reflected as a net loss to the original service category
and a net addition to their new service category. There is no net effect for such subscriber changes to the total wireless net additions (losses) or end of period subscribers.
(2)
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ncludes subscribers with PowerSource devices, which operate seamlessly between our networks.
(3)
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n the first quarter 2009, Boost Monthly Unlimited was launched on the Nextel platform. In the first quarter 2010, Boost Monthly Unlimited was launched on the Sprint platform.
(4)
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eflects the transfer of 4,539,000 prepaid and 835,000 postpaid subscribers from wholesale and affiliates as a result of the business combinations completed in the fourth quarter 2009 as well as the third
quarter 2010 transfer of 49,000 Wholesale and affiliates subscribers from prepaid as a result of a sale and transfer of customers to an affiliate.
(5) Subscribers through some of our MVNO relationships have inactivity either in voice usage or primarily as a result of the nature of the device, where activity only occurs when data retrieval is initiated by the
end-user and may occur infrequently. Although we continue to provide these customers access to our network through our MVNO relationships, approximately 1.7 million subscribers through these MVNO
relationships have been inactive for at least six months, with no associated revenue as of December 31, 2011.
(6)
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nd of period connected devices are included in total retail postpaid or wholesale and affiliates end of period subscriber totals for all periods presented.