T-Mobile US tops Q3 net phone additions - Mobile World Live

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28 OCT 2022

T-Mobile US’ determination not to rise prices successful enactment with rivals AT&T and Verizon paid disconnected arsenic it racked up nett post-paid telephone subscriber additions of 854,000 successful Q3, its highest since a merger with Sprint successful 2020.

On T-Mobile’s net call, CEO Mike Sievert (pictured) besides highlighted industry-leading nett post-paid relationship additions of 394,000, the highest successful the operator’s history.

“We delivered an industry-best 1.6 cardinal post-paid nett additions, much than AT&T and Verizon combined,” helium stated, noting post-paid telephone churn of 0.88 per cent “improved 8 ground points” year-on-year.

Sievert besides highlighted advancement successful enactment to decommission 35,000 Sprint sites, the bulk of which was achieved during Q3, a twelvemonth up of schedule.

Wireless work gross roseate 4.3 per cent to $15.4 cardinal with the post-paid fig up 7 per cent.

T-Mobile raised its yearly forecast for post-paid wireless subscriber additions for the 3rd clip successful 2022, to betwixt 6.2 cardinal and 6.4 cardinal compared with the 6 cardinal to 6.3 cardinal antecedently expected.

It added 578,000 broadband subscribers, chiefly done fixed wireless entree (FWA), for a full of 2.1 million.

Recon Analytics expert Roger Entner told Mobile World Live rivals’ terms rises “increased T-Mobile’s worth differentiation”.

“Churn was precise good. The FWA nett adds were good, but I expected them to beryllium adjacent stronger”.

Net income fell 25.5 per cent to $508 cardinal with wide gross down from $19.6 cardinal successful Q3 2021 to $19.4 billion.

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Mike Robuck is the U.S. Editor astatine Mobile World Live. He joined the Mobile World Live unit successful February of 2022. Prior to joining GSMA, helium was exertion of FierceTelecom and of Light Reading’s Telco Transformation microsite. He has a...

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