Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/verizon-signs-deal-with-google-worth-over-1-billion-2026-07-24/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260725/i6.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260725/p6#a260725p6" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jaspreet Singh / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/verizon-signs-deal-with-google-worth-over-1-billion-2026-07-24/">Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said on Friday the company has secured a deal with Google (GOOGL.O), valued at more than $1 billion &hellip; </p>