{"id":1023588,"date":"2026-07-25T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023588"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:44:46","slug":"verizon-raises-profit-outlook-on-1-bn-google-dark-fiber-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/verizon-raises-profit-outlook-on-1-bn-google-dark-fiber-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon raises profit outlook on $1-bn Google dark fiber deal"},"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>&#8220;We have other deals that we expect to announce by year end that taken together are expected to be worth multiple billions of dollars in revenue over the next several years,&#8221; Schulman said on a post-earnings call. <\/p>\n<p>Verizon is currently in the midst of a strategic transition under new CEO Schulman.<\/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%. &#8220;We have other deals that we expect to announce by year end that taken together are expected to be worth multiple billions of dollars in revenue over the next several years,&#8221; Schulman said on a post-earnings call. Verizon is currently in the midst of a strategic transition under new CEO Schulman.<\/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-1023588","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\/1023588","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=1023588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023619,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023588\/revisions\/1023619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}