Telecom Lead America: AT&T
has posted operating revenue of $31.57 billion for Q2 FY12, up
0.3 percent, as compared to $31.47 for the year-earlier quarter.
Wireless segment totaled for $14.7 billion revenue, up 4.3
percent, as compared to $14.1 for the Q2 FY11.
For the wireless segment, the company posted total revenue
of $16.3 billion in Q2 FY12, against $15.6 billion a year earlier. Wireless
segment totaled for $14.7 billion revenue, up 4.3 percent, as compared to $14.1
for the Q2 FY11. Wireless equipment segment fetched $1.5 billion in the
quarter.
The company posted $14.9 billion revenue for the wireline
segment, down 0.8 percent versus the year-earlier quarter and down
slightly sequentially.
Data segment fetched $7.9 billion revenue in Q2 FY12, as
compared to $7.3 billion for the year-earlier quarter. The company’s wireline
voice segment plunged to $5.6 billion in the quarter, against $6.3 billion for
Q1 FY11.
Total business revenues stood at $9.1 billion, down
1.5 percent against the year-earlier quarter. Business service revenues
declined 1.4 percent year over year, compared to a year-over-year decline
of 3.9 percent in the year-ago quarter.
AT&T’s revenues from residential customers (U-verse)
totaled $5.5 billion, an increase of 1.7 percent versus the second
quarter a year ago.
Consolidated operating expenses were $24.8 billion for
Q2 FY1, down 2.3 percent year over year, versus $25.3 billion.
AT&T’s operating income was $6.8 billion for Q2 FY12, up from
$6.2 billion for the year-earlier quarter.
The company’s operating revenue for the consumer market
stood at $5.4 billion and AT&T business solution segment revenue totaled at
$9.1 billion in Q1 FY12.
Second-quarter 2012 net income attributable to AT&T
totaled $3.9 billion, or $0.66 per diluted share, up from
$3.6 billion, or $0.60 per diluted share, in the year-earlier quarter.
AT&T posted a net increase in total wireless subscribers
of 1.3 million in Q2 to reach 105.2 million in service.
During the quarter, AT&T sold 5.1 million
smartphones, representing 77 percent of postpaid device sales.
At the end of the quarter, 61.9 percent, or
43.1 million, of AT&T’s postpaid subscribers had smartphones, up from
49.9 percent, or 34.1 million, a year earlier.
“Our mobile Internet leadership continues,
with solid gains in smartphones and tablets, plus our wireless margins have
never been better. And most impressive, with this growth, we also achieved our
best-ever postpaid wireless churn, which points to the premier experience
customers receive on our network. All of these things add to our confidence and
enthusiasm looking ahead,” said Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and
chief executive officer.
