Verizon future looks “uninspiring” as wireline soils its numbers

There is a confidence emanating from the Verizon management team, which to us, is simply not justified. Throughout the MNO world it seems to be well understood that in order to have a good wireless network, you need good wireline connections to backhaul it and it should have WiFi offload support. And yet Verizon’s broadband strategy is in tatters, as its 2016 figures, just out, show. Verizon is today down to just 7 million broadband lines, but of course it has a network of fiber across the US, and where it does not have fiber, it can attach through the AT&T network to insert MNO backhaul traffic into its core. Its plan for a long time has been to have…