Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to Verizon's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants have been placed in listen-only mode and the call will be open for questions following the presentation. Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to Colleen Ostrowski, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Thanks, Brad. Good morning, and welcome to our first quarter 2026 earnings call. I'm Colleen Ostrowski, and on the call with me this morning are our Chief Executive Officer, Dan Schulman, and Tony Skiadas, our CFO. Before we begin, I'd like to point you to our Safe Harbor and on our Investor Relations website. Our comments this morning may include forward-looking statements which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that may affect future results are discussed in our SEC filings. This presentation also contains non-GAAP financial measures and you can find reconciliations of these measures in the materials on our website. Finally, as a reminder, the results of Frontier Communications are included in our financial beginning on January 20th, 2026, the date we closed the Frontier acquisition. With that, I'll turn it over to Dan. Thank you, Colleen, and good morning, everyone. When I joined Verizon, I had a simple but ambitious goal. I wanted Verizon to reclaim its market leadership. Obviously, there are a lot of things we need to do right to make that happen. We need to delight our customers and put them at the center of everything we do. We need to drive consistent and fiscally responsible subscriber and revenue growth. We need to keep more of our customers as measured by our churn rate and convert that into stronger, more predictable cash gener...