T-Mobile US reported first quarter 2016 results. The company added 2.2 million total net customers and delivered 13% growth in service revenue and 98% growth in adjusted EBITDA year-over-year.
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T-Mobile added 2.2 million net customers, bringing its total customer count to more than 65.5 million.
This was the twelfth consecutive quarter in which the Company has generated more than 1 million net customer additions and the sixth time in the past 7 quarters with more than 2 million net customer additions.
T-Mobile also saw ongoing strength in branded postpaid customers with net additions of more than 1.0 million in the first quarter of 2016. This was the seventh consecutive quarter in which the Company has reported more than 1 million branded postpaid net customer additions.
Branded postpaid phone net customer additions were 877,000 in the first quarter of 2016. T-Mobile is expected to once again capture all of the industry’s postpaid phone net customer addition growth in the first quarter of 2016.
Branded prepaid net customer additions in the first quarter of 2016 were a record 807,000, up eleven-fold year-over-year and 72% sequentially driven by a thriving MetroPCS business. Wholesale net customer additions were 373,000 in the first quarter of 2016.
Branded postpaid phone churn was 1.33% in the first quarter of 2016, down 13 basis points compared to 1.46% in the fourth quarter of 2015 and generally stable compared to 1.30% in the first quarter of 2015.
Branded prepaid churn was 3.84% in the first quarter of 2016, compared to 4.20% in the fourth quarter of 2015 and 4.62% in the first quarter of 2015.
Total devices sold or leased were 9.4 million units in the first quarter of 2016, including 8.8 million smartphones.
Service revenues for the first quarter of 2016 grew by 13.0% year-over-year, primarily due to rapid growth in the Company’s customer base. This is expected to mark the eighth consecutive quarter that T-Mobile has led the industry in year-over-year service revenue growth.
Branded postpaid phone Average Revenue per User (ARPU) of $46.21 in the first quarter of 2016 was down 3.8% sequentially, primarily due to the non-cash net revenue deferral related to Data Stash, and down 0.5% year-over-year.
Adjusted EBITDA increased by 98.1% year-over-year to $2.749 billion. Adjusted EBITDA in the first quarter of 2016 included a spectrum gain of $636 million. Excluding the spectrum gain, Adjusted EBITDA grew by 52.2% year-over-year.
The aggregate impact from leasing and Data Stash on Adjusted EBITDA in the first quarter of 2016 was $204 million, including lease revenues of $342 million and the non-cash impact from Data Stash of $138 million.
Net income amounted to $479 million, up from $297 million in the fourth quarter of 2015 and a net loss of $63 million in the first quarter of 2015.
Earnings per share (EPS) in the first quarter of 2016 was $0.56, compared to EPS of $0.34 in the fourth quarter of 2015 and a loss per share of $0.09 in the first quarter of 2015. The after-tax impact of the spectrum gain on EPS in the first quarter of 2016 was $0.46.
Net cash provided by operating activities was $1.025 billion in the first quarter of 2016, up from $489 million in the first quarter of 2015.
Free cash flow was an outflow of $310 million in the first quarter of 2016, improving from an outflow of $493 million in the first quarter of 2015.
Adjusted free cash flow, which excludes decommissioning payments, improved to an outflow of $247 million in the first quarter of 2016 from an outflow of $422 million in the first quarter of 2015. ■
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