During the quarter the company lost a total 75,000 net subscribers, and while that sounds bad, this is Sprint, and that was the companys best total net subscriber result since the third quarter of 2007.
If the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal each sent out ballots to their subscribers, the results of those "polls" would be very different.
After accounting for duplication and subscriber defection resulting from the changes, the company predicts the new Business 2.0 will have a circulation of 550,000.
The automobile racing forum, which has 2,500 members, provides subscribers with results and reports otherwise unavailable, said the forum's moderator, Michael Hollander, who spent a week at the Indianapolis 500 interviewing drivers and filing time reports.
If you're a Creative Cloud subscriber, the resulting RAW files will be automatically synced to the desktop, in case you prefer to shoot on iPhone and then do your edits on the desktop later on.
The company benefited from new subscribers, a result of basic cable growth and the acquisition of cable properties from the Centel Corporation in the third quarter of last year.
The NFL Network has already endured three seasons of showing games not available to a critical mass of Comcast subscribers, a result of Comcast's dropping the network in 2006 from a broad digital basic level to the sports tier.
At the end of the second quarter the media firm had a record-high 19.5 million subscribers, primarily resulting from the rebound in U.S. auto sales and the decline in deactivations, offset by the improved self-pay monthly turnover rate.
Verizon, which is based in New York, said smartphone sales and revenue from its cellphone subscribers helped its results.
Furthermore, the opt-in system Apple sets up for apps-subscribers yields meager results and, when it comes to use the info, "some restrictions apply".
