T-Mobile earnings preview: Will we see the rise of the Uncarrier?
T-Mobile’s bigger competitors combined lost phone subscribers in Q1. That could translate into big growth for T-Mobile when it reports its earnings on Thursday. Read more »
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AT&T is a telecommunications corporation and is the second largest provider of mobile telephone and the largest provider of fixed telephone in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services. As of May 2014, AT&T is the 23rd-largest company in the world as measured by a composite of revenues, profits, assets and market value, and the 16th-largest non-oil company. As of 2014, it is also the 20th-largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with over 116.6 million mobile customers.
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