Of course, the other three major carriers did gain new customers, but to a much smaller extent relative to customers at the start of the quarter.
They retained a much smaller percentage of their customer base, while attracting many fewer new customers from other carriers.
With the announcement from Google, advertisers in the United States and seven other countries, including Britain, Canada and France, will be able to aim their word-generated searches at a much smaller pool of local customers.
Okada ventured to Tokyo's modish Daikanyama neighborhood to open his own, much smaller izakaya, Tatemichiya, where customers dine on yakitori and deep-fried octopus balls to the blaring guitars of the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and Japanese punk bands like the Stalin and Cobra.
4.1 Market Segmentation Our customers can be broadly divided into three groups (please note it is possible to divide the customers in to much smaller groups, but we have chosen not to): Weekend getaway customers.
Chris Doyle, an economist at Charles River Associates, points out that roaming generates up to 35% of European operators' revenues, although it accounts for a much smaller share of the time customers spend on the telephone.
The MPs welcomed the recent initiatives by Ofgem and the government to force suppliers to offer customers a much smaller and simpler range of tariffs, but said stronger action might be needed quickly if the proposals did not work.
VIP gamblers make up the bulk of casino revenues in Macau, but margins for these customers are much smaller due to the hefty commissions the junkets collect for their services.
Last month, a much smaller competitor, Crew, with 25,000 customers, noted that at least some of them were in fact those that Workplace was claiming to have secured.
Clearly, the customer turnout was much smaller than expected.
