ARPU

Average Revenue Per User

A metric used by investors and analysts to measure the financial performance of a wireless carrier company.

ARPU is the average amount of revenue a company collects from each user per month. Companies often try to boost this number by selling extra services to users such as data plans, messaging, and downloadable content.

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