{"id":837228,"date":"2024-07-25T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837228"},"modified":"2024-07-25T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:25:25","slug":"att-beats-estimates-for-subscriber-additions-on-demand-for-higher-priced-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/25\/att-beats-estimates-for-subscriber-additions-on-demand-for-higher-priced-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T beats estimates for subscriber additions on demand for higher-priced plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T exceeded market expectations for wireless subscriber additions in the second quarter on Wednesday, as the telecom operator&#8217;s higher-tier unlimited plans attracted customers.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of the company rose 2.4% in premarket trading.<\/p>\n<p>The company added 419,000 monthly bill-paying wireless phone subscribers, compared with expectations of 284,800 additions, according to five analysts polled by FactSet.<\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T&#8217;s unlimited plans that are usually priced lower than those of rivals have helped the company add budget-conscious customers amid tough competition from T-Mobile and Verizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T exceeded market expectations for wireless subscriber additions in the second quarter on Wednesday, as the telecom operator&#8217;s higher-tier unlimited plans attracted customers. Shares of the company rose 2.4% in premarket trading. The company added 419,000 monthly bill-paying wireless phone subscribers, compared with expectations of 284,800 additions, according to five analysts polled by FactSet. AT&amp;T&#8217;s unlimited plans that are usually priced lower than those of rivals have helped the company add budget-conscious customers amid tough competition from T-Mobile and Verizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}