{"id":653102,"date":"2013-04-18T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=447617"},"modified":"2013-04-18T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:05:25","slug":"verizon-profit-climbs-to-1-95-billion-in-q1-on-solid-subscriber-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653102","title":{"rendered":"Verizon profit climbs to $1.95 billion in Q1 on solid subscriber growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/verizon-earnings-q1-2013-447617\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/verizon-sign-logo.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Verizon profit, sales climb in Q1\" title=\"Verizon\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Verizon Communications posted its first-quarter earnings results on Thursday, showing solid income and revenue growth. The nation&#8217;s No.1 carrier reported EPS growth of 15.3% in the first quarter as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> earned $0.68 per share, or $1.95 billion, compared to $0.59 in the same quarter last year. Sales also climbed 4% to $29.4 billion, narrowly missing the Street&#8217;s $29.54 billion consensus. Smartphones accounted for 61% of Verizon&#8217;s postpaid customer base which grew by a net 677,000 subscribers in the first quarter. The carrier also said it activated 4 million <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhones<\/a> during Q1 2013, beating Wall Street&#8217;s 3.5 million-unit consensus. Verizon shares climbed 1.94% during Thursday&#8217;s pre-market session. The carrier&#8217;s full press release follows below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/verizon-earnings-q1-2013-447617\/?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\/k8E7Llws2fM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon Communications posted its first-quarter earnings results on Thursday, showing solid income and revenue growth. The nation&#8217;s No.1 carrier reported EPS growth of 15.3% in the first quarter as Verizon earned $0.68 per share, or $1.95 billion, compared to $0.59 in the same quarter last year. Sales also climbed 4% to $29.4 billion, narrowly missing [&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-653102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653102","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=653102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}