AT&T Postpaid Subscribers

AT&T Number of Postpaid wireless subscribers

The chart above displays the number of postpaid subscribers of AT&T1 from 2011 to 2022 in millions.
AT&T had total 84.7 million postpaid subscribers in 2022 compared to 81.534 million in 2021. The company generated $120.74 billion in net revenue in 2022 but incurred net losses worth $7.055 billion.

Number of AT&T Postpaid subscribers 2011-2022

Numbers are in thousands.

YearPostpaid Subscribers
202284,700
202181,534
202077,514
201975,207

AT&T had 77.514 million postpaid subscribers in 2020 compared to 75.207 million in 2019. In 2021, the number of AT&T’s post paid subscribers reached 81.534 million compared to 77.514 million in the prior year.

In 2021, the number of AT&T’s prepaid subscribers was 19.028 million compared to 18.102 million in the prior year. The total net revenue of AT&T in 2021 declined to $134,038 million compared to $143,050 million in 2020.

In 2019, the number of AT&T Postpaid subscribers reached 75.207 million compared to 76.889 million in the prior year.

YearPostpaid smartphones (000s)Postpaid feature phones and data-centric devices (000s)Total Post Paid Subscribers (000s)
201860,712 16,17776,889
201759,874 17,63677,510  
2016 59,096 18,276 77,372 
2015 58,073 19,03277,105 
2014 56,64419,126 75,770 
2013 51,874  20,764  72,638 
2012 47,076 23,421  70,497 
2011 39,376 29,933  69,309 

The number of  total post paid subscribers of AT&T  in 2018 was 76.9 million. In the same year, the number of postpaid smartphone subscribers was 60.7 million. Previous year (2017), the number of total post paid subscribers was 77.5 million.

  1. AT&T spun off Warner Media in 2022, which used to be a significant operating segment of the company and was bought by Discovery. ↩︎