{"id":1023539,"date":"2026-07-25T07:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023539"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:10:35","slug":"verizon-lifts-annual-forecasts-signs-1-billion-fiber-deal-with-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/verizon-lifts-annual-forecasts-signs-1-billion-fiber-deal-with-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon lifts annual forecasts, signs $1 billion fiber deal with Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon raised its annual adjusted profit forecast and said it had secured a more than $1 billion deal with Google to provide dark fiber connectivity for its data centers, sending the telecom operator&#8217;s shares up 3%. <\/p>\n<p>More agreements are expected by the year-end that could generate multiple billions \u200cof dollars \u2060in revenue \u2060over the next several years, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said on a post earnings call. <\/p>\n<p>The AI infrastructure buildout is opening a new avenue for telecom operators to monetize their fiber networks as hyperscalers seek high-capacity connectivity between data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon raised its annual adjusted profit forecast and said it had secured a more than $1 billion deal with Google to provide dark fiber connectivity for its data centers, sending the telecom operator&#8217;s shares up 3%. More agreements are expected by the year-end that could generate multiple billions \u200cof dollars \u2060in revenue \u2060over the next several years, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said on a post earnings call. The AI infrastructure buildout is opening a new avenue for telecom operators to monetize their fiber networks as hyperscalers seek high-capacity connectivity between data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023556,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023539\/revisions\/1023556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}