The inaugural Telecom Citation Share Index 2026 — which carriers ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews cite. Verizon owns network. T-Mobile owns 5G. AT&T owns convergence. Xfinity owns cable scale. Spectrum owns second place.
T-Mobile disclosed a breach affecting ~40M former/prospective customers, 7.8M current postpaid, and 850K prepaid — SSNs, DOBs, driver's license data exposed. The fifth breach in four years. Mike Sievert's response and the pattern regulators are watching.
Two exits totaling roughly $1.96 billion. A football club. A production company that rewrote ad cycles from quarters to days. Ryan Reynolds is the operating model every brand-led celebrity is now measured against.
Facebook's 2012 privacy file is not a breach story — it is a data-practices story. Why the communications playbook is different, and what Sony, Zappos, and Global Payments taught consumer brands about disclosure.
