American telecommunications giant AT&T announced its Q4 2012 financial results this afternoon, which reflect $3.9 billion in net profit for Ma Bell's final fiscal quarter of last year. The company's also posting "record smartphone sales" of 10.2 million last quarter -- "the most by any US carrier," it claims. As it's Q4, the results for the full year are also in; AT&T revealed $7.264 billion in net income across the entirety of 2012. That's what we'd call a marked change from last year's losses.
In terms of phones, AT&T signed up 8.6 million new iPhone customers (16 percent of which were totally new to the company), up 1 million over 2011's Q4 and more than double that of Q3 2012. No specific number is given on Android sign-ups, but AT&T's calling it the "best-ever sales quarter for Android smartphones."
Operating revenues just barely exceeded those of 2011, reaching $127.434 billion, offset by $114.437 billion in expenses (down $3 billion over 2011). Customer numbers also grew in 2012, by a healthy 1.086 million people, the vast majority of which are contract customers (approximately 70 percent). Needless to say, things seem to have gone pretty okay for AT&T in 2012.
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Tablets, Wireless, Mobile, AT&T
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/24/att-q4-2012-financials/
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