Meanings of postpaid customers in English

Valuable postpaid customers pay for their service after usage, while pre-paid customers pay in advance.

AT&T forecast net addition of about 400,000 postpaid customers in the current quarter.

In the second quarter, it lost 991,000 postpaid customers.

By comparison, Bell added 144,000 postpaid customers in the same period, while Rogers added 58,000.

The new wireless unit had more than 1 million subscribers, including almost 640,000 postpaid customers, Shaw said.

Vancouver-based Telus added 48,000 wireless postpaid customers in the quarter, about 4,000 more than a year ago.

In the latest quarter, it added a record 1.4 million postpaid customers who pay for service after use.

AT&T said it added 1.4 million new wireless subscribers, including 257,000 postpaid customers, or those who pay monthly bills.

T-Mobile said during the earnings call with analysts that more than 10% of network traffic from Sprint's postpaid customers have been migrated to T-Mobile.

Postpaid customers are those who pay monthly bills for the service.

Postpaid customers connected nearly three devices per account, an increase of 3.7 percent.

Postpaid customers sign long-term service contracts, spend more and are less likely to leave than those who pay upfront.

Postpaid customers sign multiyear contracts and typically pay much more each month than prepaid subscribers, and are therefore highly coveted by telecom executives.