América Móvil, parent company of TracFone Wireless, has released quarter four 2015 financial and operating report on February 9, 2016 in Mexico City. According to these results, TracFone Q4 2015 shows loss of 58.000 subscribers. In total, the biggest US MVNO lost 338.000 prepaid subscribers for the 2015. TracFone Wireless and its subsidiaries have ended the year with 25.668 million subscribers, comparing to 26.006 million at the end of 2014, which is 1.3% less.

“Our net subscriber losses were associated with our legacy voice-only brands: Net10 and TracFone. Our bucket plans Straight Talk, SafeLink and Total Wireless, all of which include data services, continued to show solid growth.” – América Móvil stated in report.

TracFone revenue for the last quarter in 2015 was $1.76 billion, same like in Q4 2014, but year revenue was up 1.9% to $6.985 billion. Service revenues in Q4 were $1.56 billion, which is up 1% and equipment revenues were $196 million which is 7.1% less than in Q4 2014.






TracFone Q4 earnings before taxes depreciation (EBITDA) were $77 million, which is 7.5% higher than $72 million in Q4 2014, but earnings for the whole year were down 9.4% to $593 million comparing to $655 million in 2014.

TracFone Q4 2015 report shows users monthly MOU (Minutes of usage) fall from 531 minutes in Q4 2014 to 496 minutes in Q4 2015 and ARPU (average revenue per user) was $20, unchanged from last quarter in 2014.

América Móvil owned TracFone Wireless is the biggest US MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) that operates on all 4 major US mobile networks. TracFone offers prepaid service through its prepaid brands Net10, Straight Talk, SafeLink, Total Wireless, Simple Mobile, Telcel America and Page Plus Cellular.

Source: América Móvil