closing the gap with AT&T and Verizon. T-Mobile has promised not to raise its prices for three years and to roll-out a national 5G service by 2022. Despite federal approval, though, the separate lawsuit

though Lenovo closed the gap slightly as a result of its newly minted joint venture with Fujitsu of Japan. Dell remains 3rd, while Apple showed the weakest year-on-year growth (of just 0.1%) in 4th place.

which is keen to fill strategic gaps in its own national coverage. A straight combination of Comcast and TWC would almost certainly be blocked by regulators. However, Charter might offer to surrender

it hopes to close the gap with the buyout of US #2 BodyArmor in 2022 in what is the group's biggest ever acquisition to-date. To match its rival's introduction of an associated vitamin-enriched water

allowed Coca-Cola to close the gap considerably in 2008 and then overtake its long-time rival. The two companies remain neck-and-neck. For several years, Coca-Cola also controlled US coconut water Zico,

on $8.4bn - for the first time ever. That gap narrowed significantly in 2012, with Wendy's at $8.60bn and Burger King rebounding to $8.59bn. Technomic put Burger King back in the lead for 2014. By the

gradually closing the gap with Interbank during the 1970s. In 1974, Americard followed Interbank into the international market. However customers outside the US didn't take to the BankAmericard name,

and this segment is now far bigger, with the gap between the segments continuing to widen each year. By 2009, however, there was evidence that Tide's US market share had come under considerable pressure

weight has failed to help Adidas group narrow that gap further, and if anything it has continued to fall behind the leader. By 2014, SportsOneSource estimated Reebok's share of the US market to have slumped

however, in a generally falling US market, the gap has widened slightly not narrowed. According to Beverage Digest research for 2009, Pepsi-Cola had 9.9% share of the all-channel retail CSD market by