MobileTechReview Forum, News and Reviews: AT&T Reports Quarterly Results, Gaining 4.3 Million iPhone 3G Activations

ATT Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results Highlighted by Robust Wireless Data Growth, Accelerated U-verse TV Ramp, Continued Double-Digit Growth in IP Data Services. On the wireless front:

- 2.1 million fourth-quarter net gain in wireless subscribers to reach 77.0 million in service, up 7.0 million over the past year

- 4.3 million iPhone 3G devices activated in the second half of 2008, including 1.9 million in the fourth quarter. Approximately 40 percent of iPhone activations were for customers new to AT&T. iPhone 3G continues to deliver high-value subscribers with significantly higher ARPU (average monthly revenues per subscriber) and lower churn than AT&T's postpaid subscriber average

- Wireless postpaid subscriber ARPU growth of 3.9 percent versus the year-earlier quarter to $59.59; postpaid data ARPU up 35.7 percent versus the fourth quarter of 2007 and up 10.9 percent sequentially

- 51.2 percent growth in wireless data revenues ? reflecting rapid adoption of wireless integrated devices and increased usage of wireless Internet access, messaging and related services; AT&T's wireless integrated devices in service more than doubled over the past year

- Strong ramp in AT&T U-verseSM TV subscribers, with a fourth-quarter net increase of 264,000, the company's best quarterly gain to date, to reach more than 1 million in service; U-verse network deployment now reaches 17 million living units

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