Verizon has abandoned its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to secure federal regulatory approval for its $20 ...

"Verizon recognises that some DEI policies and practices could be associated with discrimination," Venkatesh said in the ...

It's shaping up to be a big year for telecom mergers, and it appears the Federal Communications Commission is eager to ...

The FCC approved Verizon’s $10B acquisition of Frontier a day after the company told Chair Brendan Carr it would end its DEI programs.

Verizon has become the latest big company to end policies around diversity, equity and inclusion, or "DEI," in order to keep ...

Verizon’s pledge to end DEI was outlined in a May 15 letter to ... continues to abstain from particular corporate diversity issues.” On Friday, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved ...

Verizon has now made the decision to cut its DEI programs, seemingly in response to FCC chair Brendan Carr’s investigation into its diversity practices. In a letter to the agency obtained by ...

Earlier this year, Disney and PBS agreed to end their DEI programs, while Verizon agreed to end its DEI efforts to win FCC approval for its $20 billion takeover of Frontier Communications. Echoing ...

“They are the FCC personnel most familiar with Verizon’s operations due to their merger review activity.” FCC Chair Brendan Carr launched a probe into Comcast’s DEI policies earlier this mont ...