This Week: Verizon — Two Major Wins and One Temporary Setback

The Week with Roger · Jan 19, 2026 · 15m

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss several Verizon-related topics, including the recent outage, new rules on device unlocking, and the Frontier acquisition, plus HHS's plan to study cellphone radiation.

00:00 Episode intro

00:25 Verizon outage diagnosis

03:23 What's the proper recourse?

04:28 FCC rescinds Verizon's 60-day phone unlocking requirements

07:13 Implications for competitors

08:37 California clears Verizon's acquisition of Frontier

11:31 Convergence is back on the table

12:19 HHS to study cellphone radiation

15:37 Episode wrap-up

Tags: telecom, telecommunications…