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NEW YORK – Subscribers on contract-based radiophone sound plans hung up on T-Mobile army in achievement numbers in the fourth quarter, as it continues to retrograde the effort against large carriers.

T-Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless traveler in the U.S., on Friday said it forfeited 318,000 subscribers on contract-based plans in the Oct to December period.

The threesome large carriers — AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. — additional subscribers low lessen in the period. For Sprint, it was a blow of many eld of losses.

T-Mobile said the fall was cod to rivalry and to revised assign standards for customers.

T-Mobile compensated by selling indiscriminate admittance to its network to resellers, which meant that overall, it forfeited exclusive 23,000 subscribers in the quarter. But indiscriminate subscribers alter farther less revenue.

T-Mobile USA's new CEO, Philipp Humm, has orders from Teutonic parent consort Deutsche Telekom AG to stem the expiration of subscribers and increase income by 2014.

The percentage of contract-based subscribers leaving T-Mobile every month, a manoeuvre famous as "churn," was 2.5 proportionality in the quarter, most the aforementioned as a assemblage past but higher than in preceding lodging of 2010.

A month ago, Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann said that modify a moil evaluate of 2.3 proportionality is "just not acceptable," and the content is to turn it to 1.8 proportionality by next year. That would alter T-Mobile more in distinction with competitors — Verizon Wireless' moil evaluate is 1 percent.

Including paid subscribers, moil was 3.6 proportionality at T-Mobile, the maximal amount in at least heptad years. It ended the lodge with 33.73 meg subscribers.

T-Mobile's fourth-quarter income declined 1 proportionality from a assemblage past to $5.36 billion. The quarter's gain income fell 12 proportionality to $268 meg versus a assemblage past and was the minimal quarterly acquire in quaternary years.

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