AT&T sees big subscriber gains as earnings top expectations

Shares of AT&T were gaining successful premarket trading Thursday aft the telecommunications elephantine posted better-than-expected nett for its 3rd 4th and continued to spot beardown subscriber additions successful its wireless business.

The institution posted nett income of $5.9 billion, oregon 2 cents a share, astir treble the $2.8 billion, oregon 39 cents a share, that AT&T T reported successful the year-prior quarter. After adjustments, AT&T earned 87 cents a share, up from 76 cents a twelvemonth earlier and supra the FactSet consensus, which called for 78...