Groupon, whose subscriber network spans 300 markets in North America, Latin America and Europe, says it has 35 million subscribers worldwide, with 17 million in North America.
Next, they collated thousands of exhibition announcements published since 1999 by e-flux, a powerful New York-based subscriber network for art-world professionals.
In mid-October, China Unicom announced that it will seek bids to build a 10-million-subscriber network using Qualcomm's current CDMA One technology.
The deal would meld XM and Sirius into one 12 million subscriber network and get Sirius out of a major hole.
And it gives cable networks leverage in negotiating carriage fees, or the price cable companies pay in order to offer subscribers a network.
With more subscribers, a network reaps more monthly fees and can generate more advertising revenue.
Norway's Telenor, for example, paid 62 billion rupees ($1 billion) for 60% of Unitech Wireless, which had no subscribers or network.The government once hoped to raise about 400 billion rupees from the 3G auction.
This week San Antonio, Tex.-based SBC Communications, the largest local telecommunications provider in the U.S. following its merger with Ameritech, announced that it would earmark $6 billion to build a DSL (digital subscriber line) network that it said would reach more than 70 million subscribers, or 80% of its market base, by 2002.
Being a subscriber-only network allows it to transcend the limitations under which the big four networks must labour.
The files are generally larger than 100 megabytes, which can take a long time to transfer, but the company is focusing on users of new high-speed cable and digital subscriber line network connections.
