{"id":949170,"date":"2025-07-24T07:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949170"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:55:04","slug":"atts-bundled-plans-spur-subscriber-surge-tax-savings-to-fund-fiber-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/24\/atts-bundled-plans-spur-subscriber-surge-tax-savings-to-fund-fiber-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T&#8217;s bundled plans spur subscriber surge, tax savings to fund fiber expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T beat quarterly profit estimates and added more wireless subscribers than expected as customers flocked to its discounted bundles combining 5G mobile and high-speed fiber plans. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. telecom giant added 401,000 net monthly bill-paying wireless phone subscribers in the second quarter, it said on Wednesday, flying past FactSet estimates of 295,700. Rival Verizon lost 9,000 customers during the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T beat quarterly profit estimates and added more wireless subscribers than expected as customers flocked to its discounted bundles combining 5G mobile and high-speed fiber plans. The U.S. telecom giant added 401,000 net monthly bill-paying wireless phone subscribers in the second quarter, it said on Wednesday, flying past FactSet estimates of 295,700. Rival Verizon lost 9,000 customers during the same period.<\/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-949170","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\/949170","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=949170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}