T-Mobile puts the blame for its anemic prepaid growth on AT&T (updated w/ AT&T statement)

UPDATE: AT&T sent out an official statement on the T-Mobile CFO's deductions:


T-Mobile’s comments about our fourth-quarter postpaid phone subscriber growth are misleading. We’ve offered our customers a BYOD option for years. We haven’t made any meaningful changes to our credit policies in quite some time, and when we do make changes, we disclose them in our SEC filings.


T-Mobile posted a very good last quarter, but noted a stark decrease in prepaid subscribers, pretty unusual for the Un-carrier. The user base for its prepaid offers increased with 149,000, a ...