For all of 2005, it added 7.5 million new customers, 19.5 percent more than the year before.

The company added 269,000 customers in the quarter, down 17.4 percent from the period a year earlier.

Previously the company said it expected to add 35,000 to 40,000 new customers.

The company added 32 customers and just over 5,000 employees in the quarter.

And the company added 200,000 customers to its Internet long-distance phone service, for a total of more than 1.7 million.

And we'll add new customers that they never had before.

The company said it added 53,000 cellular customers in the quarter.

It now has about 1,300 corporate clients and is adding customers at the rate of 300 per year.

Analysts also wonder if the company is adding customers fast enough.

And, he added, customers like having an alternate heat source in case of a power failure.