Verizon CEO talks bridging the digital divide in over 100 countries

Around the world, 2.6 billion people are not connected to the internet. Verizon's CEO Hans Vestberg talks with "CBS Mornings" about how his company along with the Edison Alliance, which Verizon co-founded, are working to bring digital access to communities in more than 100 countries.

Each weekday morning, "CBS Mornings" co-hosts Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson bring you the latest breaking news, smart conversation and in-depth feature reporting. "CBS Mornings" airs weekdays at 7 a.m. on CBS and stream it at 8 a.m. ET on the CBS News app.

[ucdwags]

The irony, on the day of a nationwide Verizon outage

[exquizit_d]

Can they bridge the divide between my phone and a cell network, because there's an outage going on in the states.

[dah_ditdit_dahdah]

Meanwhile, 100 million of his customers lose service while he's braggin

[cool_rick]

The absolute irony on this is incredibly massive... What are the freaking chances?!!?!?

[mustscreamnomouth]

You can t even get my phone working here in the USA, and you wanna take on the globe lol😂

[danielpalmer]

2.6 Billion people, worldwide, aren't connected to the internet. And now, thanks to Verizon, a hundred thousand more...

[MyOmegaBeams]

How about you fix the outages nationwide my friend. Been within any service here in California near Sacramento since 7am local time.

[AlgoNudger]

The world has to embrace 'EMERGENCY PLATFORM', GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT' aka 'ORWELLIAN SYSTEM' amidst this artificial polycrisis for the sake of global common goods, ASAP!!! 😂😂😂

[Omidan]

Hans, you’ve run the company into the ground. Resign immediately.

[guybeingaguy]

I’d like his opinion on vaccines, dark matter, nuclear fission and why ATM’s have instructions in braille.

[rjh]

I just switched over from another carrier, not but 5 days ago. Not good.

[Omidan]

Umm how about you work on fixing the service so that it WORKS!!!

[ladedalounge]

Next day, nationwide Cellular outage....Can you hear me now Verizon.

[jeffjamesmusic]

Ironic as it seems at the same time this was put up on YouTube, Verizon is experiencing a nationwide outage 😬🤔

[christopherkeene]

Damn I wish there was not constant surveillance here

[Mimi-Muk]

Can he come back and explain this outage. Panicking here😬😬

[TheMrbrettster]

My verizon phone is not working as we speak lol looking for news about the outage

[miterca]

Awesome! but can they get their act together here first...network is down in LA and OC smh

[imarowbot]

They are connecting everyone else.. Meanwhile I can only send texts...

[traductionscultureen-arver]

Well we were fine being connected only by tv. Tv, movies, cinemas, that was way enough but not too much. Not too much because you still needed to go to a country to discover everything before internet came. And you couldn't access the tv of other countries more often.

So there were real frontiers and real relations, with real distances between people, to be crossed to encounter someone