T-Mobile to wear more subscriptions but loses prepaid customers

T-Mobile has in the past quarter more subscriptions know to wear out, but the number of prepaid customers increased stronger than the increase in subscribers. Therefore, the total number of customers. Also, the profit decreased significantly, with a whopping 18 percent.

At the end of the second quarter was T-Mobile more than 3.1 million subscribers; 40,000 to more than a year earlier. The number of prepaid customers decreased, however, with 102.000, to approximately 1.5 million. As a result, the total number of clients with 62.000 to approximately 4.6 million. Halfway through 2012, the provider still 4.9 million customers.

Also, gross profit declined 18.8 percent, to 108 million euro. According to T-Mobile, this mainly by the investments in smartphones that were necessary to attract new customers. Sales fell less, by 3.1 percent, to 406 million euro.