CNN has revealed the top "Tech Companies of 2014" guess who it is?

[Brett Taggart]

Well its the god forbidden company of (Drum Roll Please.........)

 

T-Mobile

 

• There was stiff competition from Microsoft and Apple
• CNN posits that “no other tech company shook up its entire industry the way that T-Mobile (TMUS) did this year.”
• The market change started once other carriers such as Verizon and AT&T started having good perks, T-Mobile did them better, apparently.
• The market share went from 11% to 18% this year alone

 

Original Source: Eteknix http://www.eteknix.com/cnn-name-t-mobile-tech-company-year/

 

Sourced from CNN

 

 

[WinNut]

qq

[Sidiox]

Wow, that was, ehm, unexpected, I'd have guessed Apple or Google (Motorola) 

[Recon97]

CNN is stupid.

[Brett Taggart]

@Recon97, agreed

[Octavialicious]

sure t-mobiles business model is pretty decent, but CNN should like stop writing about tech....

[SpagettiNinja]

Like CNN knows anything about tech companies.

[cesrai]

Really I think Apple is at the top -fucking apple-.

[Fetzie]

I wish T-Mobile would give the same level of service in Germany (where they are fucking BASED) as they do in the US

[FatalityDiablo]

why not ubisoft?

[Simons]

You can't really call Ubisoft or Apple anywhere a decent tech company, they release shit products and it is over priced.

And yes I have bought games from Ubisoft, and yes I have owned an iPhone.

[Techhog]

Google and Apple being contenders is more shocking. What have they done this year? A watch OS and NFC payments with fingerprints?

[TheFailBot]

Well its the god forbidden company of (Drum Roll Please.........)

 

T-Mobile

 

• There was stiff competition from Microsoft and Apple
• CNN posits that “no other tech company shook up its entire industry the way that T-Mobile (TMUS) did this year.”
• The market change started once other carriers such as Verizon and AT&T started having good perks, T-Mobile did them better, apparently.
• The market share went from 11% to 18% this year alone

 

Original Source: Eteknix http://www.eteknix.com/cnn-name-t-mobile-tech-company-year/

 

Sourced from CNN

and with Verizon trying to buy them out now this will be interesting...

[Misanthrope]

Turns out not being a fucking asshole to your customers can pay out and make you successful, imagine that....Seriously, Comcast, Verizon, Timewarner you need to fucking imagine that instead of your usual power fantasies filled with fast lanes.

[ilikemacandpc]

T mo is a great company, but DEATH TO COMIC SANS

[Jade]

"god forbidden company of T-Mobile"

 

uwot? They're excellent to their customers. Other people are right, though. CNN should stop writing about tech.

[EpicAdom]

and with Verizon trying to buy them out now this will be interesting...

The FTC won't let Verizon buy them because Verizon will have significantly more market share than all other US cellular carriers

[Brett Taggart]

T mo is a great company, but DEATH TO COMIC SANS

 

No I shall write in it purposefully now

[SirSquid]

@ilikemacandpc

 

 

Really? T-mobile, CNN knows nothing. sure they basically showed other networks you can be cheap and not be an ass but still.

[ChromeYeti]

Google and Apple being contenders is more shocking. What have they done this year? A watch OS and NFC payments with fingerprints?

They have done a lot more than T-Mobile has. All T-Mobile did was subsidize customers and potential customers. Very risky in the financial world, Except in the tech world, I don't see them doing anything of substance to even come close to Google or Apple. I also don't even know why they are saying Microsoft and Apple are their competition, they are not even in the same field. T-Mobile provides a utility, where as Microsoft/Apple provide consumer goods. /rant on CNN's lack of knowledge

[MVSde]

T-Mobile US seems to be a pretty forward thinking company. But the parent company (Telekom Germany) is exactly the opposite. Sadly.

One thing I don't understand: Telekom is planning to sell T-Mobile US to Sprint. Seems to be a very strange move. But maybe they want to focus on getting better in Germany

[Jerakl]

The media is stupid.

fixed

[Techhog]

They have done a lot more than T-Mobile has. All T-Mobile did was subsidize customers and potential customers. Very risky in the financial world, Except in the tech world, I don't see them doing anything of substance to even come close to Google or Apple. I also don't even know why they are saying Microsoft and Apple are their competition, they are not even in the same field. T-Mobile provides a utility, where as Microsoft/Apple provide consumer goods. /rant on CNN's lack of knowledge

Competition for the top spot, not market competition. As for what T-Mobile has done, they've changed the way that the wireless industry operates though bold moves. Google I'll say could logically be a better choice, but what has Apple done this year? I mean seriously? They played catch-up with Android, released a buggy mobile OS that required a 5GB update when most of their customers have 8-16GB of space, and announced an overpriced smartwatch. Only an Apple fanboy could consider then to have done anything impotant this year other than Apple Pay, which is nothing more than a logical use of Touch ID. T-Mobile at least being in the top 10 makes sense, but Apple is only on the list because they're Apple.

[Techhog]

T-Mobile US seems to be a pretty forward thinking company. But the parent company (Telekom Germany) is exactly the opposite. Sadly.

One thing I don't understand: Telekom is planning to sell T-Mobile US to Sprint. Seems to be a very strange move. But maybe they want to focus on getting better in Germany

That plan fell through half a year ago.

[Scheer]

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure most of T-Mobiles market share rise was from the regions that Verizon had to get rid of due to already having service there.

 

When Verizon bought out Alltel they had something like 38 markets they couldn't take from Alltel to Verizon, ATT picked up all but 9 (or something, going off memory), and the 9 were due to be sold last year, and IIRC it was T-Mobile who picked them up, they likely officially migrated this year thus the reason for the market share rise.

 

Grain of salt stuff if you couldn't tell, just going off old memory and assumptions.

 

I bet only 1% of my state by area has T-Mobile coverage lol, sure it covers 30% of the state population, but people travel... and its nice to have cell service when you travel.