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Top U.S. phone company AT&T posted Wednesday a higher quarterly profit as stronger-than-expected growth in wireless subscribers compensated for shrinking traditional landlines.
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The results pushed AT&T shares up 2.5 percent, though analysts said they remained worried about the fall in home phone lines and also pointed to weaker-than-expected growth in high-speed Internet subscribers in the second quarter.
"The access line loss was worse than expected," said Todd Rethemeier, analyst at Soleil-Sur Terre Research.
"It's an accelerating loss from the second quarter of last year."
AT&T's [T
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"The broadband customer additions fell off a cliff," Rethemeier said.
"They added almost 500,000 in the first quarter of this year. The second quarter is always seasonally weak, but we were still expecting 300,000," he said.
Second-quarter profit rose to $3.8 billion, or 63 cents a share, from $2.9 billion, or 47 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding special items such as merger-related costs, profit was 76 cents a share, in line with the average Wall Street forecast, according to Reuters Estimates.
Quarterly revenue rose 4.7 percent to $30.9 billion.
AT&T, the exclusive U.S. carrier for Apple's [AAPL
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That was above the average forecast for 1.25 million additions by seven analysts surveyed by Reuters.
Both AT&T and rival Verizon Communications [VZ
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AT&T shares rose to $32.60 in pre-market trade from their New York Stock Exchange close on Tuesday of $31.82.
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