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T-Mobile Q2 Sales Growth Tops Rivals; More M&A Clout?

(TMUS) outpaced bigger rivals (T)and (VZ) by posting Q2 revenue growth of 14% early Thursday, topping Wall Street views amid signs that T-Mobile’s falling revenue per subscriber might have bottomed despite an industry price war. Analysts had forecast revenue growth of 10%. T-Mobile’s average monthly revenue per user (ARPU) for postpaid phone customers fell only 2.3% from the year-earlier period to $48.19 compared with a 5.5% drop in Q1. T-Mobile

How AT&T Factored In Apple’s Missed ‘Whisper’ Number

Fewer mobile phone upgrades at AT&T in the June quarter may have contributed to Apple (AAPL) missing its iPhone “whisper number” when reporting fiscal Q3 earnings, which punished its stock, says BTIG Research. AT&T (T) has been a key marketing partner of Apple since 2007, when it became the first wireless firm to sell the iPhone. AT&T and the other national wireless firms — Verizon Communications (VZ), T-Mobile USA (TMUS) and Sprint (S) — have

Verizon Stock Slips On FiOS, Wireless Weakness

Verizon Communications’ wireless and landline businesses showed weakness in Q2, sending the telecom firm’s stock down 2.4% Tuesday. Verizon (VZ) also lowered its full-year consolidated revenue forecast to 3% growth from its earlier guidance of 4%, amid intensified wireless competition with AT&T (T), T-Mobile (TMUS) and Sprint (S). A wireless price war has taken a toll industrywide on average monthly revenue per account, or ARPA, a closely watched