--- title: Verizon raises 2026 forecast and signs $2bn AI deal with AWS description: Verizon raised its 2026 forecasts and signed a deal worth more than $2bn with AWS to support AI workloads. Verizon will supply high-capacity network... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/verizon-raises-2026-forecast-and-signs-2bn-ai-deal-with-aws-cgedzafrx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Verizon raises 2026 forecast and signs $2bn AI deal with AWS | daily.dev og:description: Verizon raised its 2026 forecasts and signed a deal worth more than $2bn with AWS to support AI workloads. Verizon will supply high-capacity network... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/verizon-raises-2026-forecast-and-signs-2bn-ai-deal-with-aws-cgedzafrx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cGEdzaFrx.png og:image:alt: Verizon raises 2026 forecast and signs $2bn AI deal with AWS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Verizon raises 2026 forecast and signs $2bn AI deal with AWS **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Verizon raised its 2026 forecasts and signed a deal worth more than $2bn with AWS to support AI workloads. Verizon will supply high-capacity network connections and help add computing power across many sites, aimed at generative and agentic AI. This follows a July deal worth over $1bn to connect Google's data centers over unused fiber. Verizon added 406,000 postpaid phone subscribers in the three months to September, beating analyst expectations of about 209,000. Revenue rose 1.5% to $34.3bn, missing estimates, but net income rose 5.2% to $5.3bn and free cash flow grew 12.1% to $7.8bn. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did Verizon and AWS agree to in their AI infrastructure deal? Verizon signed a deal worth more than $2bn with Amazon Web Services to support AI workloads. Verizon will provide high-capacity network connections and help add computing power spread across many sites, with the deal aimed at generative and agentic AI that can carry out tasks on its own. It follows a separate July agreement worth more than $1bn connecting Google's data centers over unused fiber. _Engineers tracking how telecoms are bankrolling AI data-center buildouts can follow deals like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Amazon jumps as AWS growth soothes fears over its AI spending](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-jumps-as-aws-growth-soothes-fears-over-its-ai-spending-isyim74gx) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS exceeds Wall Street’s expectations as demand for cloud infra remains high](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-exceeds-wall-street-s-expectations-as-demand-for-cloud-infra-remains-high-f2q7zgl29) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-in-2026-the-year-of-proving-they-still-know-how-to-operate-6zhrknntr) · The Last Week in AWS · 34 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#ai-infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-infrastructure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/verizon-raises-2026-forecast-and-signs-2bn-ai-deal-with-aws-cgedzafrx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Verizon raises 2026 forecast and signs $2bn AI deal with AWS","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/verizon-raises-2026-forecast-and-signs-2bn-ai-deal-with-aws-cgedzafrx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/verizon-raises-2026-forecast-and-signs-2bn-ai-deal-with-aws-cgedzafrx"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T13:01:20.376Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T13:21:51.780Z","description":"Verizon raised its 2026 forecasts and signed a deal worth more than $2bn with AWS to support AI workloads. 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