Verizon Weekly Pulse

Verizon is pulling off a balancing act, pushing satellite connectivity nationwide while facing resistance on shutting down its old copper phone lines. The real headline: alongside AT&T and T-Mobile, Verizon has launched a satellite joint venture to wipe out dead zones using a shared slice of spectrum and unified technical standards. The idea is to get basic coverage everywhere—especially during di...

Verizon is charging ahead with a $70 million push to upskill Americans in AI, rolling out a national training portal with heavyweights like IBM, Google, and OpenAI. The initiative blends new money with existing reskilling funds, aiming to equip both displaced workers as Verizon retires aging copper landlines and small businesses eyeing AI for future growth. The stakes? Billions in network upgrades...

T-Mobile and Verizon are staking out radically different paths for AI-powered networks, and the choices they make now will shape who dominates wireless in the next decade. T-Mobile is betting big on putting Nvidia GPUs directly into the radio network itself, promising major gains in speed and efficiency by 2028. Verizon, meanwhile, is keeping the radios lightweight — using CPUs in the network and...

Verizon just locked in a multi-billion dollar deal for more than 80 million miles of Corning fiber through 2032, but this isn’t simply about laying cable to more homes. The real play is building a national long-haul backbone to serve the surge in AI data-center traffic, with big names like AWS in the mix. By standardizing on a single, ultra-dense fiber network for everything—residential broadband,...

Verizon’s promise of rock-solid reliability is being put to the test as Hurricane Lowell heads for Hawaiʻi and a multi-state outage just rocked the Mid-South. The company is waiving all local wireless charges for affected Hawaiʻi customers and staging backup power and satellites to keep people online—a strong bet on public goodwill and disaster resilience. But at the same time, more than 16,000 us...

Verizon just launched Visible One, a bundled plan that puts mobile and fiber home internet together on a single bill, aiming for simplicity with no credit checks, contracts, or installation fees. It’s a move to capture value-driven customers and lock households in, but the offer is only available to select homes with inactive fiber lines—so it’s not a nationwide play. The real bet is that bundling...

Verizon is grappling with a mounting reliability problem — multiple network outages in August have hit major cities from Phoenix to New York, followed by another wave in Indiana. While each incident was short-lived, the pattern is worrying, especially with nearly a quarter of complaints tied to 5G Home Internet. For a company betting big on “convergence” — selling customers mobile and home interne...

Verizon’s reputation for reliability is under fire after a string of high-profile fiber cuts and outages hit Southern California and New Mexico, disrupting service for thousands and prompting a $25,000 reward for tips leading to arrests. The stakes are big: with nearly 600 incidents of vandalism nationwide in just a month and California racking up over $250 million in losses from cable attacks, Ve...

Verizon’s week went from bad to worse: first, a nationwide voice outage left customers in cities from Chicago to Los Angeles unable to make calls for hours. It was the kind of disruption that doesn’t just annoy everyday users—it puts enterprise and public safety clients on edge and forces procurement teams to rethink risk. The difference between a random blip and a pattern of outages is the line b...

Verizon is making bold moves to reshape its broadband future, betting big on fiber expansion without overspending. With a $1.5 billion partnership alongside Bain Capital and Tillman Global, Verizon aims to reach over a million new locations outside its current territory, exclusively selling fiber service while Eaton Fiber handles the network build and operations. This capital-light approach could...

Verizon just clocked its best second quarter in five years, raising full-year guidance and landing a billion-dollar dark fiber deal with Google. Service revenue is up as more people sign on for mobile and broadband, but device sales are down—Verizon’s answer has been to cut phone subsidies, push new plans, and squeeze more profit from each customer. The result: record margins and cash flow, even a...

Verizon is making big moves to cut costs without sacrificing its ambitious network investments. The company is selling 274 of its own stores to authorized retailers and eliminating about 500 corporate jobs, impacting around 3,000 employees nationwide. The goal: protect its dividend, fund $16–$16.5 billion in annual network spending, and digest the $20 billion Frontier Communications acquisition —...

Verizon just scored a high-profile win with BMW, landing a deal to power nearly all new BMW vehicles in the U.S. with advanced 5G Standalone connectivity. This isn’t just faster in-car Wi-Fi—Verizon’s network will handle the telematics backbone: everything from remote diagnostics to over-the-air software updates. For Verizon, it’s a shot at unseating AT&T as the king of connected cars and finally...

Verizon just shelled out $3.2 billion for new wireless spectrum in the FCC’s latest auction, snapping up 82 mid-band licenses for critical cities like New York, Chicago, and Boston. This isn't about turbocharging raw speed—instead, it's about better coverage, especially indoors, where the 1.7 GHz spectrum shines. The move deepens Verizon’s network in places that matter most, but after already spen...

Verizon just bet big on three fronts: it’s joining forces with BT in a $4 billion joint venture to create a global enterprise powerhouse, taking over Carolina West Wireless’s regional network in North Carolina, and dropping $3.2 billion on fresh mid-band spectrum—all to fuel 5G growth and keep its coveted dividend safe. The BT deal means 3,000 multinational customers will soon be served by a singl...

Verizon is simplifying its plans and stacking up rewards to keep customers from jumping ship. With Simplicity, every line gets premium 5G for $45—no confusing tiers—and Verizon One bundles mobile and home internet into a single $70 bill. They’re dropping activation and upgrade fees and launching a loyalty program that pays 3% back in Verizon Dollars you can spend with partners like Sephora and Sta...

A major wireless outage hit West Texas after fiber cuts knocked out Verizon service for up to 12 hours, leaving thousands stuck in “SOS Only” mode and raising new doubts about the company’s “most reliable” reputation. While voice calls came back quickly, data and text lagged, with local businesses, emergency services, and 5G Home Internet users bearing the brunt. The incident exposed the risk of h...

Verizon is charting a new course for its network future with the blockbuster hire of Abdu Mudesir, a recognized leader in AI-driven automation and Open RAN. He won’t take the reins until 2027, but his appointment signals CEO Dan Schulman’s strategy: double down on cost-cutting and performance gains through automation, multi-vendor flexibility, and smarter use of software—without overhauling existi...

Verizon posted solid first-quarter numbers—$34.4 billion in revenue, up nearly 3%, and a $3.8 billion free cash flow haul—but the market barely blinked. Despite its first positive Q1 postpaid phone subscriber gain in over a decade and a forward dividend yield approaching 6%, shares lagged behind the broader market. The stakes are clear: Verizon is balancing big debt reduction moves and hefty spect...

Verizon just posted better-than-expected earnings—$1.28 EPS on $34.44 billion revenue—while slashing costs and doubling down on cyber defense. Management is targeting $5 billion in expense reductions and up to 3% service revenue growth by 2026, balancing growth with job cuts and leaner operations. The stakes: Verizon needs to deliver efficiency-fueled gains without letting its network quality slip...

Verizon’s comeback play is in high gear: shares are up nearly 18% this year as the company doubles down on network upgrades, trims costs, and nudges prices higher. The FCC just greenlit Verizon’s $1 billion spectrum grab from Array Digital, giving it fresh low- and mid-band airwaves to quickly boost indoor coverage and ease congestion. It’s a fast-track move to defend premium service tiers and jus...

Verizon is shaking up its playbook—slashing “several hundred” jobs nationwide, launching a new Total Wireless lineup with a five-year price lock, and betting on AI-driven network recovery. The cost cuts aim to please investors and sharpen margins, but there’s tension: will trimming HQ roles and duplicative functions boost efficiency or risk customer service? After last year’s 15,000-role downsizin...

Verizon just posted its first positive first-quarter postpaid phone customer gain since 2013, flipping a 289,000 loss last year into a 55,000 gain and raising its full-year guidance. But the momentum comes with a catch—service revenue growth fell short of targets, and average revenue per account dipped, partly blamed on credits issued after January’s major wireless outage. The big question: can Ve...

Verizon’s at a crossroads. CEO Dan Schulman is making big admissions: network excellence alone isn’t cutting it as Verizon keeps losing ground to AT&T and T-Mobile, forcing 13,000 layoffs and a looming reset of how it sells to customers. The next big test? A new value proposition, simpler plans, and a push for flawless service—all by the first half of 2026. But here’s what’s on the line: short-ter...

Verizon sells itself on rock-solid reliability, but January’s nationwide wireless outage—and a fresh local disruption in April—sent shockwaves through its biggest customers. Nearly 60% of large enterprise clients told Recon Analytics they’re now more likely to shop around when their contracts come up. That’s a big deal: with awareness and frustration highest among the most valuable accounts, press...