It's that time of the year again, ladies and gents, and even though with a boastful preliminary financial report for the final three months of last year, , AT&T, and Verizon all followed suit in the last couple of days with their own consolidated Q4 and full 2019 results.

While no one can rival Team Magenta in terms of quarterly and yearly customer gains, of its own, adding 790,000 new wireless subscribers. That's Big Red's highest fourth-quarter phone net boost in no less than six years, and it would be foolish to consider the timing of this achievement coincidental.

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