After years of trying, AT&T has caught up...

After years of trying, AT&T has caught up with Verizon Wireless and both now each have about 34 percent of the U.S. wireless market, said Chetan Sharma Consulting in a report released this weekend. Verizon had been on top since it bought Alltel in 2008/2009, but AT&T was able to catch up with its recent acquisition of Leap, the report said (http://bit.ly/1m2gwr7). It said T-Mobile “continued to impress” with a 66 percent share of all U.S. carrier Q1 net adds. U.S. mobile data service revenue was also up sharply in Q1, with carriers seeing a collective $25.9 billion, up 23 percent from the year-ago period and four percent from the previous quarter, the firm said. It predicted the U.S. this year will be the first nation to cross the $100 billion mark in mobile data services revenue.