The Week with Roger

This Week: Modular Pricing, Network Strain, and California's Copper Standoff


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Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner unveil insights from Fiber Connect 2026 on data centers and material shortages, and discuss AT&T's new Build-A-Plan rollout as well as their legal fight to sunset legacy copper networks in California.

00:00 Episode intro

00:25 Fiber Connect data center insights

02:51 AI video is driving network requirements

04:41 AT&T's new Build-A-Plan rollout and implications

07:40 Will the plan expand in the future?

08:27 AT&T sues California to sunset copper and DSL

11:00 Satellite has become a reliable backup

12:28 Regulators should embrace the future

13:16 Episode wrap-up

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Fiber Connect, AI, network, data centers, BEAD, fiber, data, video, DOCSIS 4.0, AT&T, Build-A-Plan, Mint, multi-line, convergence, DSL, California, copper, FCC, satellite, Starlink, T-Mobile, regulation

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