T-Mobile USA breaks 30 Million Customer Milestone

May 8 2008, 1:27am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

T-Mobile USA announces that they have now over 30 million subscribers. AT&T still leads of course with over 71 million subscribers.

In the first quarter of 2008, T-Mobile USA added 981,000 net new customers, up from 951,000 in the fourth quarter of 2007, and 980,000 in the first quarter of 2007.
During the quarter, T-Mobile USA’s acquisition of SunCom Wireless (SunCom) closed, adding 1.1 million customers and networks in the Southeastern United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
T-Mobile also mentions in their Q1 2008 report that myFaves continues to be very popular with T-Mobile customers. At the end of the first quarter there were more than 5.5 million myFaves customers, up from 5 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2007.

Contract customer churn was 1.7% in the first quarter of 2008, down from 1.8% in the fourth quarter of 2007 and 1.9% in the first quarter of 2007.

Service revenues, consisting of contract, prepaid, and roaming and other service revenues, rose to $4.57 billion in the first quarter of 2008, up from $4.37 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007, and up from $3.99 billion in the first quarter of 2007.
Via the T-Mobile site.

T-Mobile does not mention the Sprint Nextel acquisition rumors in their reporting that sprung up last week.

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