- Postpaid net account additions decreased 13% year-over-year
- Service revenues increased 9% in Q2, to $15.9 billion
- The carrier is sticking with its full-year postpaid account add forecast of 950,000 to 1.05 million
T-Mobile reported Q2 2026 postpaid average revenue per account (ARPA) of $152.91, representing a 2% increase year-over-year.
However, postpaid net account additions of 277,000 decreased 13% year-over-year. In the year-ago quarter, T-Mobile reported 318,000 postpaid net account adds.
The reason for the decline is apparently due to higher account deactivations tied to the acquisition of UScellular, as well as higher average broadband-only accounts. Partially offsetting the decline were higher gross account additions, including fiber account additions from the acquisition of Metronet.
Total service revenues in Q2 2026 increased 9% year-over-year to $19 billion and postpaid service revenues increased 13% year-over-year to $15.9 billion. Net income was up 1% year-over-year to $3.2 billion and included the impact of costs related to the merger of UScellular. T-Mobile closed on that $4.3 billion transaction in August 2025.
“Q2 marked another strong quarter of execution as we continued making meaningful progress toward our ambitious 2026 and 2027 objectives, including achieving our highest-ever wireless NPS score of 46,” said T-Mobile CEO Srini Gopalan in a statement. “We see a tremendous runway for growth across both wireless and broadband, as well as new businesses.”
T-Mobile says its differentiated approach is all about creating durable growth opportunities that no one else in the industry can match, but some analysts say it lacks a more aggressive convergence/fiber strategy that AT&T, especially, and Verizon are pursuing.
T-Mobile’s new reporting structure
Last year, T-Mobile reported postpaid phone net customer additions of 830,000 for the second quarter, its best-ever for a Q2. But the company announced earlier this year that it would no longer be reporting postpaid phone net adds and would instead combine them into postpaid accounts.
The reasoning? T-Mobile’s management explained that 90% of their postpaid phone lines are multi-line accounts and a significant portion of T-Mobile customers use more than a phone – they have tablets, watches or subscribe to its broadband service as well. Therefore, it makes more sense to report postpaid accounts rather than phone net adds.
Full-year guidance
Looking ahead, T-Mobile raised its adjusted free cash flow guidance to between $18.4 billion and $18.8 billion, an increase from prior guidance of $18.1 billion to $18.7 billion.
The company reiterated that postpaid net account additions are likely to be between 950,000 and 1.05 million for all of 2026.
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