What about the challenges in integrating AT&T and Comcast? A. We have a massive integration challenge to create a 22 million subscriber company.
Q. Yahoo has been thought of as a subscriber service company until recently.
When a cellphone call is made, its signal is usually picked up by a local antenna operated by the subscriber's company.
And there's still plenty of competition for prepaid subscribers from companies like MetroPCS and Leap Wireless International's Cricket, he said.
After an outcry from subscribers, the company reversed course, dropping the plan.
The concept has already attracted tens of thousands of subscribers, the company said.
With more than 8m subscribers, the company clearly has a good deal of underlying value.
[In regular trading Tuesday, the stock fell more than 30 percent.] Despite the decline in subscribers, the company did well financially in the quarter.
The cable unit of Time Warner Inc. has received a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission asking for information about how it counts subscribers, the company said yesterday.
Sharon Fordham, the chief executive of WeightWatchers.com, would not disclose the number of subscribers the company had attracted, "but I will say we've done very well so far".
