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This Week: Verizon’s Simplicity Plan and Another Attempt to Eliminate Device Subsidies
Episode 30122nd June 2026 • The Week with Roger • Roger Entner
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Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner evaluate the benefits of Verizon's new Simplicity Plan, discuss the evolving device upgrade landscape, and examine AT&T's announcement of its new CFO.

00:00 Episode intro

00:24 Overview of Verizon's new plan

02:09 The rewards structure of the plan

03:27 Additional features and junk fee elimination

04:18 Device subsidies are being phased out

07:40 Increasing customer value without device upgrades

08:38 Verizon's new plan is a step in the right direction

09:53 AT&T announces new CFO

11:25 Episode wrap-up

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Verizon, plans, Dan Schulman, rewards, T-Mobile, Ronan Dunne, Xfinity, internet, hotspots, devices, financing, Apple, upgrades, Samsung, net adds, Virgin Mobile, AT&T, Jennifer Biry, Pascal Desroches, John Stankey

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