NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc. reported second-quarter financial results on Wednesday that contained signs that the weak economy is catching up to its previously

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top US phone company AT&T Inc said on Wednesday its quarterly profit rose, as growth in wireless subscribers helped to compensate for

AT&T beat expectations this morning, at least in terms of the number of new wireless subscribers it added in the second quarter. This wasn’t necessarily

0.63 reported earnings per diluted share, up 34.0 percent versus $0.47 in the year-earlier second quarter -- $0.76 adjusted earnings per diluted share, up 8.6 percent from $0.70 in the second quarter of 2007 -- Consolidated operating income margin expansion to 21.3 percent reported from 16.8 percent in the year-earlier quarter and 25.1 percent adjusted versus 23.9 percent -- 15.8 percent increase in wireless revenues with wireless data revenues from areas such as Internet access, messaging and e-mail up a robust 52.0 percent -- More than 1.3 million net gain in wireless subscribers to reach 72.9 million in service; postpaid subscriber churn down to 1.1 percent, lowest level

By Ville Heiskanen July 23 (Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc., the biggest US telephone carrier, said second-quarter profit rose 30 percent as increasing demand at

NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters) - Top US phone company AT&T Inc (TN: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Wednesday its quarterly profit rose,

By LAURA M. HOLSON With millions of people snapping up the iPhone, AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the popular phone, should be quite pleased with the

By ANDREW D. SMITH / The Dallas Morning News Can AT&T Inc. sign up enough cellphone customers to offset the loss of traditional telephone lines?

BY REINHARDT KRAUSE Shares in cell phone service providers Vodafone, (VOD) America Movil (AMX) and Millicom (MICC) plunged Tuesday as their outlook for

Verizon's pending merger with Alltel is expected to add another 13.2 million customers, which will likely bring Verizon's total subscriber base to 80 million.
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ubscribers, third-largest cell phone service provider Sprint Nextel has been losing customers, although Sprint has been showing signs of stabilizing in recent weeks. The fourth-largest wireless firm, T-Mobile, has been adding customers, but it trails the other providers by a sizable margin.

Verizon Wireless released partial second-quarter results showing it added 1.5 million new subscribers to its Can You Hear Me Now? network during the period.
The results came in ahead of the 1.3 million customers the industrys No. 2 carrier posted during the second quarter of 2007, and beat some expectations. Cowen and Co. said it expected the carrier to add 1.2 million customers during the quarter.
as down more than 14% early Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange. Verizon Communications stock was down just over 2%.

A year ago, Apple's iPhone made most competing cellphones look like stone tablets with antennas. But the new iPhone 3G, introduced last week, doesn't make quite the same leap forward.
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verage and exacts a price on battery life.