AT&T Reports Fourth-Quarter Earnings Growth with a 2.7 Million Net Gain in Wireless S
- Record Earnings
Dallas, Texas, January 28, 2010
$0.51 diluted EPS for the fourth quarter versus $0.41 in the year-earlier period
$34.4 billion full-year cash from operating activities versus $33.7 billion in 2008, and $17.1 billion free cash flow, up 28.4 percent versus 2008 (free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital expenditures)
2.7 million fourth-quarter net addition in total wireless subscribers, the second highest quarterly net gain in the company's history; full-year wireless net adds totaled 7.3 million, equaling the company's best-ever annual total, to reach 85.1 million subscribers in service
Best-ever fourth-quarter wireless subscriber churn levels � 1.19 percent postpaid and 1.44 percent total
2.6 percent growth in postpaid wireless subscriber ARPU (average monthly revenues per subscriber), eighth consecutive quarter with a year-over-year increase
Continued robust growth in revenues from wireless data services such as messaging, access to applications and related services; up $805 million, or 26.3 percent, versus the year-earlier quarter to $3.9 billion
248,000 net gain in AT&T U-verseSM TV subscribers to reach 2.1 million in service, up more than 1 million in 2009, with continued high broadband and voice attach rates
18.8 percent growth in wireline IP data revenues driven by AT&T U-verse expansion and growth in advanced business solutions
17.0 percent growth in revenues from strategic business services such as Ethernet, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), hosting and application services01-28-10 11:58 AMLike 0
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