{"id":969109,"date":"2025-10-24T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969109"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:30:15","slug":"t-mobile-lifts-annual-forecast-as-subscriber-gains-top-estimates-on-iphone-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/t-mobile-lifts-annual-forecast-as-subscriber-gains-top-estimates-on-iphone-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile lifts annual forecast as subscriber gains top estimates on iPhone upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile said on Thursday it added 1 million wireless subscribers who pay a monthly bill in the third quarter that also topped estimates and raised its annual forecast, powered by iPhone upgrades and premium plans that drew users from rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Shares slipped 1.5% premarket after the company increased its annual capital expense forecast by $500 million to about $10 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Device upgrade cycles typically raise costs for telecom operators, as they must purchase handsets and offer them at a discount to attract or retain customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile said on Thursday it added 1 million wireless subscribers who pay a monthly bill in the third quarter that also topped estimates and raised its annual forecast, powered by iPhone upgrades and premium plans that drew users from rivals. Shares slipped 1.5% premarket after the company increased its annual capital expense forecast by $500 million to about $10 billion. Device upgrade cycles typically raise costs for telecom operators, as they must purchase handsets and offer them at a discount to attract or retain customers.<\/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-969109","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\/969109","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=969109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}