“So we expect to see a normalization in the trajectory of business wireline EBITDA during the remainder of the year.”

In context

“ed 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 business mobility and FirstNet. As we announced earlier this month, we now have more than seven million FirstNet connections, which is a tremendous milestone. We continue to grow connections because FirstNet is truly in a league of its own. Let's be clear. No matter if it's New York City Police Department, the Fire Department in New York City, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or any of the nearly thirty thousand public safety agencies and organizations that use FirstNet, FirstNet continues its strong momentum and remains a first responder communication solution of choice. Now let's move to slide nine to discuss our capital allocation. Our capital investment is largely driven by our fiber deployme”