T-Mobile officials reported seeing 2.4 million subscribers for the first quarter of 2014, topping many of the company's competitors.
According to a press release, 1.8 million consumers opted for T-Mobile plans. An additional 1.3 million people purchased post-paid plans or pay-as-you-go monthly plans. 465,000 others chose pre-paid options.
T-Mobile's president and CEO said the statistics are a result of a year's hard work.
"A year ago I promised that we would bring change to what I called this arrogant US wireless industry. We are delivering on that promise and our results reflect the growing customer revolution that we've ignited," John Legere said in a statement. "We are now approaching 50 million customers, added 2.4 million net new customers in the first quarter alone, and posted our fourth quarter of consecutive service revenue growth, while once again adding more net new postpaid customers than the rest of the industry combined!"
These numbers surpass AT&T and Verizon's 1.16 million customers, according to Forbes.
T-Mobile has recently been part of the fight to end overage costs for customers. Legere encouraged his competitors on April 14 to stop charging customers who go over their monthly data limits.
"Today I'm laying down a challenge to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint to join T-Mobile in ending these outrageous overage penalties for all consumers - because it's the right thing to do," John Legere CEO at T-Mobile told Time.
T-Mobile previously indicated that the company will not charge customers overages, a policy that will take effect during the May/June usage period. Customers will receive a bill for this time period in June.
"Charging overage fees is a greedy, predatory practice that needs to go. Starting in May for bills arriving in June - regardless of whether you're on Simple Choice, Simple Starter or an older plan, we're abolishing overages for good. Period," Legere told Time.
