{"id":1035263,"date":"2026-09-15T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035263"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:00:45","slug":"verizon-ceo-details-strategic-shifts-efficiency-ai-infrastructure-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/15\/verizon-ceo-details-strategic-shifts-efficiency-ai-infrastructure-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon CEO details strategic shifts, efficiency, AI infrastructure investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman recently discussed the company&#8217;s strategic progress over the past year at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology 2026 conference. He highlighted four key areas of emphasis: customer obsession, cultural transformation, business model redefinition for efficiency, and delivering strong investor returns, as reported by Fierce Network. <\/p>\n<p>Schulman noted a shift from an engineering-focused approach to customer obsession, aiming to reduce churn and increase postpaid phone net additions. Churn has been decreasing year-over-year, and Verizon reported 184,000 postpaid phone net additions and over 550,000 total mobility and broadband net additions in Q2 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman recently discussed the company&#8217;s strategic progress over the past year at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology 2026 conference. He highlighted four key areas of emphasis: customer obsession, cultural transformation, business model redefinition for efficiency, and delivering strong investor returns, as reported by Fierce Network. Schulman noted a shift from an engineering-focused approach to customer obsession, aiming to reduce churn and increase postpaid phone net additions. Churn has been decreasing year-over-year, and Verizon reported 184,000 postpaid phone net additions and over 550,000 total mobility and broadband net additions in Q2 2026.<\/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-1035263","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\/1035263","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=1035263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035282,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035263\/revisions\/1035282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}