From AT&T to Shentel: Tracking broadband earnings in Q2 2025

Lightwave is tracking the performance of key players in the broadband industry during the second quarter of 2025.  
June 30, 2025
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The second quarter of the 2025 earnings reporting season has begun, and Lightwave will track how key players in the broadband industry performed. Please check here for updates on this segment's providers, vendors and integrators. 

You can also check out how Lightwave tracks the second quarter of 2025 results of the major players in the optical networking industry.

Also, check out our coverage of Q4 2023Q1 2024Q2 2024Q3 2024, Q4 2024 and Q1 2025 broadband earnings and our Q2 2025 optical earnings coverage.

July 10 

Ekinops
www.ekinops.com
Following a 16% decline in the first quarter, Ekinops’ sales of optical transport equipment rebounded sharply by 42% in the second quarter. Over H1 2025, Ekinops’ revenue came to $67.3 million, which was nearly identical to H1 2024.
- here’s our coverage

July 21

Calix
www.calix.com

Verizon
www.verizon.com
Verizon’s second quarter consolidated revenue reached $34.5 billion, up 5.2% year-over-year. The company stated that this result was driven by solid wireless service revenue and a more than 25% increase in wireless equipment sales.
- here’s our coverage

July 23

AT&T
www.att.com
AT&T’s total second-quarter revenue was $30.8 billion, up 3.5% from $29.8 billion in the year-ago quarter. This company attributed the revenue increase to higher Mobility and Consumer Wireline revenues, partially offset by declines in Business Wireline and Mexico, which were also impacted by unfavorable foreign exchange effects.
- here’s our coverage
- see our business services coverage

July 25

Charter Communications
www.charter.com
Charter reported that Second quarter revenue of $13.8 billion grew by 0.6% year-over-year, driven by residential mobile service revenue growth of 24.9%, residential Internet revenue growth of 2.8% and other revenue growth of 18.9%.
- see our coverage

July 29

Corning
www.corning.com
Corning reported that overall second-quarter core sales were up 12% year over year to $4.05 billion.
- see our coverage

July 31

Cable One
www.cableone.com
Cable One reported $381.1 million in second-quarter revenues, down 3.4% year-over-year from the second quarter of 2024, but slightly above analyst estimates.

Comcast
www.comcast.com
Comcast reported second-quarter 2025 revenue of $30.31 billion, up 2.1% year-over-year.

Frontier
www.frontier.com
Frontier reported second-quarter revenue $1.54 billion, up 4.0% year-over-year, as growth in fiber-based products was partly offset by declines in copper-based products.
- see our broadband coverage
- see our business/wholesale coverage

Lumen
www.lumen.com
Lumen reported total revenue was $3.09 billion for the second quarter 2025, down from $3.27 billion for the second quarter 2024.
- see our broadband coverage

Shentel
www.shentel.com

August 4 

Adtran
www.adtran.com
Adtran reported $265.1 million in second-quarter revenue, up 17% year-over-year, with strong results in optical, access and subscriber platform customer wins.
- see our coverage

CommScope
www.commscope.com

August 5

Uniti Group
www.uniti.com

August 6

Clearfield
www.seeclearfield.com

August 7

Altice USA
www.alticeusa.com

August 11 

TDS Telecom
www.tdsinc.com

Wide Open West 
www.wowway.com

August 20 

Dycom
www.dycomind.com

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