T-Mobile didn’t exactly have a good first quarter of 2011. It lost a lot of contract customers, but made up a portion of that with prepaid customers. In the second quarter of this year T-Mobile’s revenue was $4.6 billion which is only a slight dip from what revenues were in Q2 2010. T-Mobile also lost customers, but those losses are no where near as bad as they were in the first quarter.

T-Mobile, arguably either the third or fourth place US carrier, looks to be in a bit of trouble at the moment. While AT&T adds more subscribers with each new iPhone, Sprint with the Palm Pre, and Verizon for its network, T-Mobile doesn’t look to be doing quite as well as the others. T-Mobile has never been the top carrier, but it’s also never reported such a slow quarter.

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