• AT&T Posts Third Quarter Results

    AT&T released its third quarter results today.

    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
    Read more at: http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pi...code=financial
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