Verizon is eerily quiet. What's up with that?

Everyone knows Verizon’s in turnaround mode, big time. After losing subscribers to T-Mobile and AT&T for years, the company tapped industry veteran and former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman to do the hard, sometimes painful work required to right the ship. But aside from a few interviews with the likes of the Wall Street Journal about disruptions from AI and the occasional press release touting its status as the official telecom sponsor for the FIFA World Cup 2026, the company’s been pretty quiet. They were nowhere to be seen at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, although Schulman did appear at a Morgan Stanley conference on March 2, the same time everyone in the wireless industry was gathered in Spain. “Verizon has been eerily quiet in recent months,” said Jeff Moore, principal at Wave7 Research, noting the dearth of press releases since the first of the year. During the company’s Q4 2025 call in January, Schulman said they were “fine-tuning” a new value proposition that he was very careful not to spill the beans about. “We are not going to show our hand until the day we launch,” he said.