From AT&T to Ciena: Tracking optical earnings in Q1 2024

April 23, 2024
The first-quarter 2024 earnings reporting season has begun, and Lightwave is tracking how key players in the optical networking industry performed. Please check here for updates on service providers, vendors and integrators in this segment.

The first-quarter 2024 earnings reporting season has begun, and Lightwave is tracking how key players in the optical networking industry performed. Please check here for updates on service providers, vendors and integrators in this segment.

Also, our colleagues at Broadband Technology Report are tracking the fourth-quarter results of the major players in the broadband industry.

April 16

Ekinops
www.ekinops.com
Ekinops continued to weather challenging economic conditions in the first quarter of 2024 as revenue declined to $30.3 million. 
-see our coverage

April 23
Verizon 
www.verizon.com
Verizon Business reported revenue was $7.4 billion in the first quarter of 2024, down 1.6 percent year over year. Increases in wireless service revenue were more than offset by decreases in wireline and wireless equipment revenue. 
- see our coverage
- here’s BTR’s coverage

April 24

AT&T
www.att.com
AT&T reported that Business Wireline revenues declined 7.8% year over year to $4.9 billion, primarily due to lower demand for legacy voice and data services as well as product simplification, partially offset by growth in connectivity services and non-recurring equipment revenues.
- here’s Lightwave’s coverage
- see BTR’s coverage

Ribbon Communications
www.ribboncommunications.com
Ribbon Communications reported generated $180 million in revenues, a decrease of 3.5% from the previous year. The company saw growth in cloud and IP Optical networks.
- here’s Lightwave’s coverage   

April 25

Comcast Business 
www.comcast.com
Comcast's first-quarter Business Services Connectivity revenue grew 5% to $5.1 billion, up from $2.3 billion in the same period last year.
- here’s Lightwave’s coverage

April 26

Charter
www.charter.com
Driven by 6.9% year-over-year enterprise PSU growth, Charter’s Spectrum Business enterprise revenue grew 3.8% year-over-year to $708 million.
- see Lightwave’s coverage

April 30

Corning
www.corning.com
Corning continued to battle service provider revenue headwinds in the first quarter, reporting Optical Communications sales of $930 million, down 17% year over year.
- see Lightwave’s coverage

Infinera
www.infinera.com

Lumen
www.lumen.com

May 3

Frontier
www.frontier.com

Lumentum
www.lumentum.com

May 6

Adtran 
www.adtran.com

TBA

Ciena
Cisco
Cogent Communications



 

 

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