Say what you will but the financial crisis isn’t affecting everyone similarly. As opposed to others that revealed important losses for the first quarter AT&T managed to bring in loads of cash during the same period. The revenue for the first quarter came in at $30.57 billion and the most impressive earnings came from the wireless and U-Verse services. AT&T Mobility brought in 1.2 million new subscribers and it activated 1.6 million iPhones during the last three months. Wireless data revenue grew 38.6% to $3.2 billion and operating income margine grew 26% compared to 2008.

AT&T also added 284,000 net U-Verse TV subscribers, twice as much as it did in Q1 2008. As for wireless broadband subscribers AT&T added 471,000 subscribers and now it has 16.7 million total broadband users.

via AT&T