From AT&T to Verizon: Sizing up Q4 Broadband 2020 Earnings 

Jan. 26

Verizon
Verizon sees Fios internet subscribers rise as more customers work from home and conduct home schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
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Jan. 27

AT&T
AT&T adds 1 million fiber broadband subscribers in 2020. As AT&T hits FTTH milestone, the provider sets plans to deepen penetration in existing and new markets. 
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Corning
Corning’s Optical Business revenues rise 7 percent on strong carrier and enterprise sales. Fiber manufacturer expects segment to grow in 2021 as customers increase optical network investments.
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Jan. 28

Comcast
Comcast added 538,000 net new broadband customers and delivered Adjusted EBITDA growth of over 12 percent. For the year, Comcast added 2 million new high-speed internet customer net customers.
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Jan. 29

Charter
Charter sees broadband gains again, adding 246,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter and 2.2 million for the year. 
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Feb. 4

ADTRAN
ADTRAN sees growth in its Tier-2 and Tier-3 service provider segments in the U.S. and a solid increase in fiber deployments in Europe. 
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Feb.9

Cisco
Cisco’s saw its mission to transform itself into a software and service subscriptions with an increase in security and software revenue continue to take hold in its second-quarter. But its core infrastructure business continued to see struggles.
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Ting/Tucows
Ting Fiber adds 2,800 new addresses and 5,100 serviceable addresses with FTTH during the fourth quarter.
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Feb. 10

Altice USA 
Altice USA covered nearly 1 million homes with FTTH technology available for service during the fourth quarter. 
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Lumen
Lumen passed an additional 400,000 homes with fiber to now reach 2.4 million homes, up from 2 million at the end of 2019. 
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Feb. 17

CommScope
CommScope saw mixed results in the fourth quarter. While Broadband Networks sales rose 17.3 percent year-over-year to $789.3 million, it saw softer results in its Home Networks and Outdoor Wireless Networks segments.
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Feb. 19

TDS Telecom
TDS Telecom reported revenues increased 1 percent to $173 million, largely driven by the strong growth in residential revenues, which increased 8 percent due to growth from broadband and video connections.
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Feb. 25

Consolidated Communications
Consolidated reported during the fourth quarter that it grew broadband revenue 2.8 percent, representing the seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year broadband revenue growth.
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Shentel
Driven by 31 percent growth in its tower business and 5.4 percent in Broadband, Shentel’s total revenue grew 6.7 percent to $220.8 million.
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Feb. 26

MasTec
MasTec reported fourth quarter 2020 revenue was $1.6 billion, down from $1.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2019.In the communications segment, MasTec’s revenue was $568 million.

March 1

Uniti
Uniti saw the fruits of its fiber build outs continue to take shape in the fourth quarter as the company reported $275.3 million in fourth quarter and $1.1 billion for the full year.

March 3

Dycom
Dycom reported that contract revenues for the fourth quarter and fiscal year were $750.7 million, down from $737.6 million for the quarter ended January 25, 2020. Contract revenues decreased 6.2 percent on an organic basis after excluding $5.7 million in contract revenues from storm restoration services and adjusting for the additional week of operations during the quarter ended January 30, 2021 as a result of the Company’s 52/53 week fiscal year.

March 8

Frontier Communications
Frontier reaches goal to upgrade over 60,000 existing Frontier-served copper locations to fiber. The telco ended the fourth quarter with $1.7 million in total revenues and a net loss of $50 million, which included $136 million in reorganization costs related to balance sheet restructuring and $72 million on debt extinguishment costs related to refinancing.