“Excluding the impacts of UScellular and the fiber JVs, our underlying ARPA growth is now expected to be up approximately 4% for the full year.”

In context

“u can see, we had a fabulous Q3, which underpins the confidence in our increased guidance. So starting with customers, we are raising our expectation for total postpaid net additions to now be between 7.2 million to 7.4 million, an increase of just over 1 million at the midpoint. As part of that total, we are also increasing our expectation for postpaid phone net additions, now expected to be 3.3 million, highlighting the tremendous momentum we're seeing in the business. And on the strength of our T-Fiber rollout, we are also raising our fiber customer net additions guidance to be approximately 103,000 this year, up from approximately 100,000 previously. We now expect postpaid ARPA growth of at least 3.5% for the full year, including the dilutive impacts of UScellular, Metronet and Lumos. Excluding the impacts of UScellular and the fiber JVs, our underlying ARPA growth is now expected to be up approximately 4% for the full year. We now expect core adjusted EBITDA to be between $33.7 billion and $33.9 billion for the full year, an increase of $300 million at the midpoint, reflecting our ongoing core operating strength and the inclusion of UScellular into our full year guidance. And speaking of UScellular, in September, we both increased our synergy guidance to $1.2 billion in total OpEx and CapEx run rate synergies and accelerated the time line to realizing those run rate synergies to within 2 years of close. As part of that accelerated synergy realization plan, we expect to incur approximately $300 million in costs to achieve in Q4, primarily driven by merger-related costs related to UScellular, which will be excluded from core adjusted EBITDA. In network, where we remain focused on using our customer-driven cove”