Verizon, AT&T Seen Trailing T-Mobile in Wireless User Growth
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Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. will post first-quarter results this week that will probably show wireless subscriber growth trailed smaller rival T-Mobile US Inc., a milepost passed only once before.
Verizon and AT&T, which report earnings Tuesday and Wednesday, added 587,000 and 400,000 new monthly subscribers, respectively, based on the average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. T-Mobile gained about 930,000, leading in subscriber growth again after it topped the industry in the March quarter of 2014.