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Each year, roughly 46.4 million existing cell phone subscribers churn out � usually to switch service providers � and thus are up for grabs.
That hefty figure is due to the industry�s monthly subscriber cancellation rate of 1.92 percent, which means every year about 23 percent of the 201 mil. U.S. cell phone subscribers churn, according to Kagan Research newsletter Wireless Market Stats.