T-Mobile Soars After Carrier’s Upbeat 2022 Customer Outlook

  • Company may add as many as 5.5 million customers this year
  • Some investors had feared a slowdown in mobile phone growth

A T-Mobile store in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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T-Mobile US Inc. soared as much as 9.5% in extended trading after the company, the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier, projected 2022 subscriber growth that exceeded most analysts’ expectations.

As part of its fourth-quarter report, T-Mobile saidBloomberg Terminal Wednesday it expects to add 5 million to 5.5 million new subscribers this year. Analysts had forecast 5 million, according to the average of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.