Verizon and T-Mobile both replaced their CEOs. The channel shrugged

In any other decade, simultaneous CEO changes at two of the three biggest carriers would have sent the channel into a panic. Verizon swapped Hans Vestberg for former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman. T-Mobile promoted Srini Gopalan to succeed Mike Sievert. The channel's collective response was a shrug.

That reaction tells you everything about where carrier relevance stands in 2026. The channel has diversified so far beyond wireline and wireless that a carrier CEO change is a LinkedIn headline, not a business disruption. It's interesting, sure. But it doesn't move the needle for most partners the way it would have five or ten years ago.

If you still have more than 60% of your book in carrier services, take note. The rest of the industry moved on. The question is whether you're going to.