'Thanks guys, great quarter' – 2024 edition

A list of some of the most recent telecom earnings calls in 2024, and whether or not women participated on each one.

Nicole Ferraro, Phil Harvey

September 20, 2024

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Back in August 2022, Light Reading published a column called "Thanks guys, great quarter," assessing how many women participated on that season's earnings calls.

We thought it time to revisit some companies on that list, and some others, to see how things have or have not changed in the last two years.

Below is a list of telecom companies whose earnings Light Reading covered this quarter or previously, and a note about whether or not women participated on that company's most recent earnings call.

Adtran: No.
Related: Adtran Q2 2024 earnings transcript (source: Adtran)

Apple: No.
Related: Apple Q3 2024 earnings call transcript (source: Seeking Alpha)

AT&T: No.
Related: AT&T in a 'race to convergence,' CEO says

BT: Yes. (2 of 15)*
Related: BT Group earnings transcript - FY ended March 2024 (source: Seeking Alpha)
*Ratio of women to total participants

Cable One: Yes. (1 of 8)
Related: Cable One's earnings miss: That's ARPU, folks!

Calix: No.
Related: Calix Q2 2024 earnings call transcript (source: Seeking Alpha)

Charter: Yes. (2 of 8)
Related: ACP takes a bite out of Charter's broadband base

Cisco: Yes. (2 of 15)
Related: Cisco cuts thousands, looks to profit as enterprises prep for AI

Comcast: Yes. (1 of 11)
Related: Comcast sheds 120K broadband subs as network upgrades continue

Commscope: Yes. (1 of 9)
Related: Commscope gears up for 'unified' DOCSIS 4.0 platform

DZS: Yes. (1 of 4)
Related: DZS Q2 2024 earnings call transcript (source: Seeking Alpha)

Ericsson: No.
Related: Ericsson charged with Vonage 'value destruction' amid 5G misery

Lumen: Yes. (2 of 12)
Related: Lumen said it will haul in billions from upcoming AI deals

Nokia: No.
Related: Nokia takes big axe to mobile jobs but grows footprint outside AT&T

T-Mobile: Yes. (1 of 16)
Related: T-Mobile results pile 5G humiliation onto AT&T and Verizon

Verizon: No.
Related: Verizon adds 378K FWA subs in Q2, but faces service coverage concerns

– Research contributed by Elia Silbey

[Editor's note: "Participants" in this article refers to company executives, investors and analysts, not call operators or members of the investor relations team. Light Reading attempted to verify the gender identity of all persons included in this article. To issue a correction, please feel free to email us here.]

About the Authors

Nicole Ferraro

Editor, host of 'The Divide' podcast, Light Reading

Nicole covers broadband, policy and the digital divide. She hosts The Divide on the Light Reading Podcast and tracks broadband builds in The Buildout column. Some* call her the Broadband Broad (*nobody).

Phil Harvey

Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

Phil Harvey has been a Light Reading writer and editor for more than 18 years combined. He began his second tour as the site's chief editor in April 2020.

His interest in speed and scale means he often covers optical networking and the foundational technologies powering the modern Internet.

Harvey covered networking, Internet infrastructure and dot-com mania in the late 90s for Silicon Valley magazines like UPSIDE and Red Herring before joining Light Reading (for the first time) in late 2000.

After moving to the Republic of Texas, Harvey spent eight years as a contributing tech writer for D CEO magazine, producing columns about tech advances in everything from supercomputing to cellphone recycling.

Harvey is an avid photographer and camera collector – if you accept that compulsive shopping and "collecting" are the same.

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