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AT&T reported its second quarter results on Thursday. The company’s consolidated revenues were $31.5 billion, up 2.2% ($680 million) from the same quarter last year. AT&T’s wireless, wireline data and managed services were responsible for 76% of those revenues, and that figure is growing at a rate of 8.3% year-over-year. AT&T Mobility added a total of 1.1 million subscribers during the quarter, including 331,000 net postpaid adds, and it now serves a total of 98.6 million subscribers. The carrier also noted that it had its best-ever second quarter for smartphone sales: it sold 5.6 million total smartphones, up 43% year-over-year. AT&T activated 3.6 million iPhones during the quarter, more than half of the smartphones sold, and said that nearly 25% of the iPhone activations were from new subscribers. AT&T also noted that its planned acquisition of T-Mobile is still on track for closure during the first quarter of next year. Read on for the full press release.
AT&T Reports Strong Wireless Gains, Record Mobile Broadband Sales and Continued Strength in U-verse and Strategic Business Services in Second-Quarter Results
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[*]$0.60 diluted EPS, compared to $0.67 diluted EPS, and $0.60 per diluted share when excluding a significant item in the second quarter of 2010
[*]Consolidated revenues of $31.5 billion in the second quarter, up more than $680 million, or 2.2*percent, versus the year-earlier period
[*]9.5*percent growth in wireless revenues, with a 7.4*percent increase in wireless service revenues
[*]Total wireless subscribers up 1.1 million to reach 98.6 million subscribers in service, with gains in every customer category including 331,000 postpaid net adds
[*]Best-ever second-quarter smartphone sales of 5.6 million; nearly 70*percent of total postpaid sales were smartphones
[*]iPhone activations remain strong at 3.6 million, with 24*percent of subscribers new to AT&T; iPhone subscriber churn down slightly sequentially
[*]Sales of Android and other smartphones doubled year over year; more than 40*percent of smartphone sales in the quarter
[*]Branded computing subscribers (includes tablets, aircards, MiFi devices, tethering plans and other data-only devices) up 545,000, almost doubling since the second quarter of 2010 to reach 4.0 million
[*]23.4*percent growth in wireless data revenues, up $1 billion versus the year-earlier quarter
[*]Postpaid subscriber ARPU (average monthly revenues per subscriber) up 2.0*percent to $63.87, the tenth consecutive quarter with a year-over-year increase
[*]Fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in wireline consumer revenues, driven by AT&T U-verse