United States

T-Mobile adds 274,000 postpaid accounts in Q3; the figure includes broadband

The carrier increased service revenue 6% to $19.375 billion. Its account metric is not the same as net mobile line additions.

T-Mobile US reported on October 28 that it added 274,000 net postpaid accounts in the third quarter of 2026 and ended September with about 35 million. The figure includes phone and broadband accounts; it should not be read as 274,000 new mobile lines. The company no longer discloses net additions by line type in this report. [1][2]

Service revenue reached $19.375 billion, up 6% from a year earlier. Postpaid average revenue per account was $155.73, a 4% annual increase, and net income reached $3.5 billion. These are company-reported results; Light Reading and RCR Wireless separately examined the metric change and financial context. [1][2][3]

T-Mobile attributes some of the business growth to its customer and service mix. Light Reading notes that net account additions edged down from 277,000 in the second quarter and that postpaid account churn rose to 1.09%. Those comparisons use the same account unit, not individual subscribers. The photograph shows a T-Mobile store in Hartford in 2015 as an archive image; it does not depict a store opening or a result from this quarter. [1][2]

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