“On the top line, we benefited from pricing actions on legacy services, which helped moderate revenue declines although we expect this benefit to diminish over the next few quarters.”

In context

“to match the disclosures in targets we provided at our analyst and investor day. Business wireline revenues declined approximately nine percent year over year, primarily due to continued pressures on legacy and other transitional services which declined seventeen point four percent. This was partially offset by growth in fiber and advanced connectivity services, which grew four and a half percent. About one-third of these revenues are from value-added services, which are variable on a quarterly basis. The remaining two-thirds which is predominantly fiber connectivity, is growing at a faster rate and accelerated relative to the fourth quarter. Business wireline EBITDA declined less than two percent versus prior year. I want to call out a few factors that contributed to this improved trend. On the top line, we benefited from pricing actions on legacy services, which helped moderate revenue declines although we expect this benefit to diminish over the next few quarters. On the expense side, business wireline operating and support costs were down about four hundred million dollars year over year. This decrease is due to solid execution against our cost-saving initiatives, including lower force, contractor, and access costs. Lower expenses also reflect the vendor settlements I mentioned earlier as well as the prior deconsolidation of our cybersecurity business. While I appreciate that our first quarter EBITDA performance is pacing ahead of plan, some of the favorability was nonrecurring, and we are facing an operating environment with less visibility. So we expect to see a normalization in the trajectory of business wireline EBITDA during the remainder of the year. We also saw solid trends across business solutions, which includes the contributions from bu”