Verizon CEO on 5G ROI, Network Building, and the Future
Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath sits down with The Verge to discuss Verizon’s 5G investments, network operations, and future strategies. He details the actual return on investment from 5G, highlighting the importance of network capacity and 5G’s role in handling the explosion of mobile data. He also touches on Verizon’s attempts and lessons learned in content and application integration, and his views on net neutrality and government regulation. Sampath shares his unique decision-making framework and Verizon’s strategies for addressing market changes and customer needs, such as the three-year price lock plan. The conversation also covers the fiber network Fios’s construction plans, OpenRAN technology, and the outlook for future 5G applications.