Broadband and optical Q3 2025 earnings

Lightwave is tracking the performance of key players in the broadband industry during the third quarter of 2025.  

Ekinops is reworking its top management ranks as the company’s long-term CEO, Didier Brédy, is leaving on the heels of a decline in third-quarter revenues. In the third quarter of 2025, Ekinops reported revenue of $26 million, down 27% compared to the third quarter of 2024.

AT&T is confident that its approach to fiber buildouts enables it to stand out against emerging fiber broadband competitors popping up in the markets it serves today. 

New cloud, fiber and wireless services continue to offset ongoing losses of traditional copper and TDM-based offerings.

Corning aims to double its scale-up market share by converting copper links to fiber to support AI GPU workloads, reaching about 100 Gbps per meter on the electrical to optical frontier.

Lightwave is tracking the performance of key players in the broadband industry during the third quarter of 2025.  

AT&T continued to see growth in fiber subscribers and homes passed along with greater bundled services sales during the third quarter.

Corning's third-quarter optical networking sales grew 33% year-over-year to $1.65 billion in Q3, driven by strong adoption of Gen AI products and high-density fiber solutions.

Frontier added 326,000 fiber passings to reach 8.8 million total locations passed with fiber in the third quarter and 133,000 fiber broadband customers, resulting in fiber broadband customer growth of 20.2% year-over-year.