Record Wireless Sales, Strong Revenue and Earnings Growth Highlight AT&T's Third-Quarter Results
Dallas, Texas, October 21, 2010 $2.08 diluted EPS compared to $0.54 diluted EPS in the third quarter of 2009 EPS of $0.55, excluding $1.53 in one-time gains from a previously disclosed tax settlement and the sale of Sterling Commerce Consolidated revenues from continuing operations of $31.6 billion in the third quarter, up $847 million, or 2.8 percent, versus the year-earlier period 11.4 percent growth in wireless revenues, with a 10.5 percent increase in wireless service revenues Record wireless volumes, with more than 8 million postpaid integrated device sales 2.6 million increase in total wireless subscribers - the highest third-quarter net gain in the company's history - to reach 92.8 million subscribers in service Postpaid subscriber ARPU (average monthly revenues per subscriber) up 2.0 percent to $62.84, the seventh consecutive quarter with a year-over-year increase 1.32 percent total wireless churn, best-ever third-quarter 30.5 percent growth in wireless data revenues, up $1.1 billion versus the year-earlier quarter First year-over-year growth in wireline consumer revenues in more than two years 30.0 percent growth in consumer IP data revenues, driven by AT&T U-verse® expansion 236,000 net gain in AT&T U-verse TV subscribers to reach 2.7 million in service, with continued high broadband and voice attach rates 148,000 net gain in wireline broadband connections 15.4 percent growth in revenues from strategic business services such as Ethernet, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), hosting and application services ... http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=18680&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=31312 http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=18680&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=31312&mapcode=financial http://www.att.com/Investor/Financial/Earning_Info/docs/3Q_10_IB_FINAL.pdf http://www.att.com/Investor/Financial/Earning_Info/docs/3Q_10_slide_c.pdf http://www.att.com/Investor/Growth_Profile/download/master_Q3_10.pdf _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
