Verizon Communications Inc. returned to positive subscriber growth in its consumer postpaid phone business for the fourth quarter, but the company came up shy with its earnings outlook for the full year.

The company posted 41,000 net additions for its consumer wireless retail postpaid phone business in its Tuesday morning report, snapping a streak of subscriber losses that lasted three quarters. While FactSet doesn’t easily track this metric, Evercore ISI analysts were anticipating 50,000 postpaid phone net additions for the…