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

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, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Verizon, Alfonso Villanueva, Sampath, Dan Schulman, ARPA, metrics, Apple, AT&T, FirstNet, 5G, slicing, spectrum, first responders, T-Priority, T-Mobile