This Week: Verizon Promotes Alfonso Villanueva and the FirstNet Race Heats Up

The Week with Roger · Aug 3, 2026 · 11m

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the leadership changes at Verizon, changes in metric transparency and the shift to ARPA, and what AT&T's 5G standalone core means for the increasingly competitive first responder market.

00:00 Episode intro

00:25 Leadership changes at Verizon

02:00 Effects on company strategy and operations

03:00 ARPA and changes in reporting metrics

05:47 AT&T's 5G standalone core and its impact on first responders

07:55 Network live testing results

08:23 T-Priority and the competition

10:56 Episode wrap-up

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid…