{"id":644429,"date":"2013-02-28T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=348677"},"modified":"2013-02-28T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:50:04","slug":"t-mobile-continued-tumble-in-q4-income-down-25-as-515000-contract-customers-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644429","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile continued tumble in Q4, income down 25% as 515,000 contract customers left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/28\/t-mobile-earnings-q4-2012-348677\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/t-mobile-sign.jpg?w=650&amp;h=396&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"T-Mobile Earnings Q4 2012\" title=\"T-Mobile\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/27\/iphone-sales-leap-wireless-347792\/\">iPhone isn&#8217;t always the savior carriers hope it will be<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/t-mobile\">T-Mobile<\/a> certainly needs something to help reverse its current course. As the carrier awaits the arrival of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) devices and the imminent <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/metropcs\">MetroPCS<\/a> merger, customers continue to jump ship and performance it taking a serious hit as a result.\u00a0T-Mobile on Thursday reported Q4 revenue that sank to $4.9 billion from $5.2 billion in the same quarter a year ago, while operating income tumbled 25% to $1 billion. 515,000 contact subscribers left T-Mobile during the holiday quarter, even worse than the\u00a0492,000 contract subs it shed in the same quarter in 2011. Parent company\u00a0Deutsche Telecom said it expects the MetroPCS merger to be finalized as soon as April. T-Mobile&#8217;s full press release follows below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/28\/t-mobile-earnings-q4-2012-348677\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/VR9t1iCh_7M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone isn&#8217;t always the savior carriers hope it will be, but T-Mobile certainly needs something to help reverse its current course. As the carrier awaits the arrival of Apple (AAPL) devices and the imminent MetroPCS merger, customers continue to jump ship and performance it taking a serious hit as a result.\u00a0T-Mobile on Thursday reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}