In its quarterly report AT&T said it added 255,000 U-Verse broadband subscribers but overall lost 92,000 broadband customers. That seems to say it lost 347,000 of its legacy DSL customers. It added 209,000 U-Verse pay TV subscribers, bringing its total to 2.5 million. It was the first month that revenue from U-verse TV exceeded $1 billion.
In wireless, AT&T said it added 496,000 postpaid subscribers, about one-third of what it did in the quarter a year ago. The iPhone is AT&T’s cash cow in its wireless business. It activated 3.2 million iPhones in the quarter and about 27% of those were new customers.
Total gains in wireless subscriptions during the quarter were 1.6 million, bringing its total wireless subscriptions to 90.1 million. AT&T attributed the increase to an increase in prepaid subscribers, the rapid growth in smartphones and the growth of a “host of connected devices such as e-readers, global positioning systems and alarm-monitoring systems.”
At the end of the quarter, AT&T said 53.2% of its 67 million postpaid subscribers were using integrated devices, which it defines as those having a physical or virtual Qwerty keyboard. They increased 2.9 million to 29.7 million, a 98.2% increase from the quarter a year ago.