Companies in the Communication Services sector have received a lot of coverage today as analysts weigh in on Verizon (VZ – Research Report)

Texas Instruments falls after the chip maker’s first-quarter earnings forecast misses estimates, Boeing declines after revealing it expects to post a wider fourth-quarter loss because of strikes at the aerospace giant,

The social-media giant’s loosening of speech restrictions is unsettling advertisers, who say a decade of efforts to protect their reputations is at risk.

Meta. Verizon and Meta have an existing strategic partnership across numerous products, technologies and business units. Verizon AI Connect will expand this partnership into network infrastructure ...

Late last year, Verizon partnered with Nvidia to launch a new 5G private network with private Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) solution. The offering includes Nvidia’s GPU hardware and software that can bring plug-and-play AI capabilities on-premise for enterprises. Verizon engineers will begin demonstrations of this solution in early 2025.

Business IT and comms division of telco giant relevels strategy for deployment of artificial intelligence in enterprise use cases.

Verizon this week announced AI Connect, a new suite meant to leverage its distributed infrastructure to support expected demand in edge inferencing capacity.

Verizon AI Connect marks the start of US telco’s push into the AI infrastructure sectorGoogle and Meta have already booked AI Connect capacity to handle AI

The carrier giant launched AI Connect during Verizon’s Q4 2024 earnings call. The carrier’s top executives also highlighted its fixed wireless, private networking and 5G wins in 2024.

Verizon reported the strongest quarterly results for subscriber growth across mobility and broadband in more than a decade.

The company will use its expertise in AI — honed through efforts like plan personalization — to help it create solutions for corporate clients.

Both Verizon and AT&T have delivered outperforming Q4 results and positive outlooks. Click here to read more about T and VZ stocks.