Light Reading Podcasts
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The Divide: NTCA's Shirley Bloomfield on bridging the 'rural-rural' divide
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shirley Bloomfield, CEO of NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, joins the podcast to discuss the challenges facing rural providers when it comes ...
Omdia's Pablo Tomasi: Why 2022 won't be the year of 5G private networks
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo Tomasi, principal analyst of private networks for Omdia, joins the podcast to share key findings from his latest report, "2022 Trends to Watch: ...
Windstream's Mike Frane forecasts enterprise networking and security trends for 2022
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Frane, VP of product management for Windstream Enterprise, is back on the podcast to provide his forecast for enterprise trends in 2022 such as c...
What's the Story: 5G networks on C-band spectrum stalled
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Dano, editorial director of 5G & mobile strategies for Light Reading, joins the podcast to discuss why AT&T and Verizon are delaying thei...
CES 2022: Finding and profiting from the metaverse
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast this week we present an interview recorded on December 28, just before we took a short New Year's Day break. Light Reading's Jeff Baumg...
What's the Story: Streaming TV providers seek market stability
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading Senior Editor Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to explain the competitive challenges that virtual multichannel video programming distr...
The Divide: Craig Settles on broadband funding and the need for accountability
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Broadband and telehealth consultant Craig Settles joins the podcast to discuss the details of the $65 billion broadband bill, how monopolies have held...
NTT's Bruce Snell on 'wide sweeping ramifications' of Log4j vulnerability
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Snell, VP of security strategy and transformation at NTT Security, returns to the podcast to provide an update on the Log4j vulnerability, poten...
Lumen's Mark Dehus tracks DDoS threats
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Dehus, director of information security and threat intelligence for Lumen Technologies, joins the podcast to share the key findings from the oper...
Juniper jumps on the O-RAN bandwagon
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jai Thattil, director of strategic marketing for Juniper Networks, joins the podcast to discuss Juniper's work in the open RAN space, why the net...
MetTel CTO Ed Fox on clearing up confusion around SASE
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MetTel CTO Ed Fox returns to the podcast for an update on enterprise interest in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) trend that brings together netw...
The Divide: Gary Bolton on taking fiber advocacy to the states
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Bolton, president of the Fiber Broadband Association, returns to the podcast to discuss how the fiber industry's advocacy efforts are changing as...
Omdia's Rik Turner on cloud permissions management
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rik Turner, principal analyst of emerging technologies at Omdia, is back on the podcast to explain how cloud permissions management (CPM) can help ser...
What's the Story: Cable Next-Gen Business Services Digital Symposium
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading's Alan Breznick joins the podcast to provide a preview of what attendees can expect to learn at the 15th annual Cable Next-Gen Business ...
The Divide: Digging into Pennsylvania's broadband map
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from Harry Crissy and Tom Beresnyak, who work at Penn State Extension: a science-based educational organization run by Penn S...
What's the story: The $22 billion Andromeda auction
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we talk with Light Reading's Mike Dano about all things spectrum auctions, including the "Andromeda" auction, which just wrapped up w...
What's the story: Altice USA flip flops on fiber
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading's Alan Breznick joins the podcast to discuss why Altice USA had a change of heart regarding the company's broadband growth strategy. In ...
MixComm CEO: Making beamforming and mmWave for 5G, from antennas to algorithms
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
ICYMI: From our coverage of the Big 5G Event in early September, here's a short interview with Mike Noonen, CEO of MixComm.In this interview with Ligh...
The Divide: Internet Society's Mark Buell on what's 'very good' and 'less good' in the broadband bill
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the Biden administration's $65 billion broadband bill now signed into law, this week we hear from Mark Buell, regional vice president for North A...
KORE Wireless CEO: Looking beyond the IoT hype
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
ICYMI: From our coverage of Mobile World Congress Los Angeles in October, here's a short interview with KORE Wireless President and CEO Romil Bahl.Bah...
Making the most of the 6GHz spectrum band
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
ICYMI: From our coverage of Mobile World Congress Los Angeles in October, here's a short interview with Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi. Tarazi tal...
How to price and sell 5G to consumers
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Telcos are excitedly deploying 5G and advertising it nonstop during American football games and there's a good reason for that: Making money from cons...
The Divide: James Clark on preserving Native American culture with broadband
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we hear from James Clark, a fellow with the American Connection Corps (ACC), who is working with Mille Lacs Band tribal lead...
What's the story: High drama at Rogers Communications
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading Senior Editor Jeff Baumgartner joins the reboot of 'What's the Story?' with an update on the unfolding drama at the Rogers Communication...
MWCLA 21: The Light Reading Recap
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading editor Kelsey Ziser, Jeff Baumgartner and Mike Dano join Phil Harvey for recap of some of the issues that were covered and smothered at ...
Rakuten's Tareq Amin: Conducting Symphony but changing the music
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
LOS ANGELES – MWC LA – This week Rakuten Symphony released a reference architecture for a distributed RAN node and cell site transport device call...
The Divide: Dr. Dominique Harrison on achieving digital equity in the Black Rural South
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Dr. Dominique Harrison, director of the Technology Policy Program at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, joins to di...
The Divide: How LUS Fiber makes the muni model work in Lafayette, Louisiana
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Ryan Meche, director of LUS Fiber, a municipal fiber provider in Lafayette, Louisiana. LUS Fiber emerged from Lafayette ...
The Divide: What Viasat's Evan Dixon wants DC to know about satellite broadband
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Dixon, president of global fixed broadband at Viasat, joins the podcast to discuss the company's role in tackling the digital divide in the US an...
Nokia Deepfield CTO: How DDoS attacks are changing
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Labovitz, CTO for the Nokia Deepfield business, is watching how distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have changed throughout the pandemi...
Consolidated CEO bets the house on fiber
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Consolidated CEO all in on fiber over FWABob Udell, president and CEO for Consolidated Communications, joins the podcast to provide an update on the s...
The Divide: How broadband impacts public health
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Amy Sheon is a digital health equity consultant and president of Public Health Innovators, which provides digital health equity strategy support t...
Verizon zeroes in on recovery efforts and network refresh
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne Schnaars, senior manager of network engineering for Verizon, joins the podcast to discuss her team's work to integrate new technology into Ver...
BT on clearing up the cloudy relationship between telcos and hyperscalers
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BT Global's Chet Patel joins the podcast for a discussion on how the relationship between telcos and hyperscalers is changing as a result of enterpris...
The Leading Lights finalists: Part III
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading's editors are in the middle of judging the 2021 Leading Lights Awards and this is the third and final episode in a three-part podcast se...
5G World: Mavenir EVP dishes on open RAN's technology advantage
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Open RAN is a truly different network architecture and over the next five years, those RAN sites will be able to perform functions that traditional RA...
5G World: Vodafone takes on its telco legacy
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vodafone's chief network officer, Andrea Donà, said the way to the 5G future is to first make sure you radically simplify and take care of legacy net...
5G World: Reasons to be upbeat about 5G and the telco cloud future
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are definitely reasons to be upbeat about the trajectory of 5G, according to Dario Talmesio, Omdia's research director for service provider stra...
5G World: The 5G icon is starting to mean something
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New, improved 5G radios and other products are starting to make a difference in service provider deployments, according to Gabriel Brown, Heavy Readin...
The Leading Lights finalists: Part II
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading's editors are in the middle of judging the 2021 Leading Lights Awards and this is the second in a three-part podcast series discussing t...
Verizon's Shah on private networks, now and later
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anand Shah, director of Technology and Architecture for Verizon, joins the podcast to share insight into industry progress for deploying network slici...
Cisco siphons $20M into Rural Broadband Innovation Center
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The goal of the Cisco Rural Broadband Innovation Center is to provide service providers of any size with access to testing the same level of technolog...
Light Reading Recap: Week ending Sept. 17
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included a look at the wild valuation ride of social media and messaging platform Discord as it recently rejected ...
The Divide: How Uprise Fiber seeks to solve what you hate about your ISP
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from Sam Sanders, founder CEO of Uprise Fiber. Uprise was launched two years ago on the West Coast by a group of telecom indu...
Windstream: SD-WAN stalled, not squashed by pandemic
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Windstream CMO Mike Flannery joins the podcast to discuss why enterprises didn't deploy SD-WAN as widely as the industry anticipated they would at the...
The Leading Lights finalists: Part I
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading's editors are in the middle of judging the 2021 Leading Lights Awards and this is the first in a three-part podcast series discussing th...
Matrixx CTO: How modern charging, billing unlocks new mobile services
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Price, CTO of Matrixx Software, joins the podcast to explain how operators can rethink traditional mobile pricing models for 5G services. Price r...
Big 5G Recap: Going hybrid in the mile-high city
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Mike Dano join Phil Harvey to recap the Big 5G Event and discuss what has happened lately with in-person events, ...
How 'as a service' might supercharge private 5G
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The private wireless networking trend has been a hot-button issue in the global wireless industry for months now. The notion, after all, is tantalizin...
Verizon's Peselli on enterprises' evolving network consumption model
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Massimo Peselli, SVP of Global Enterprise for Verizon Business, provides insight into how the pandemic has changed the way "enterprises consume the ne...
Private 5G represents 'turning point' for John Deere
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Deere's Kiel Ronning provides some fresh insight into how 5G-powered private networks are weaving their way into smart manufacturing, enabl...
Light Reading Recap: Week ending Sept. 10
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included more trouble for Norwegian operator Telenor as it moves away from Myanmar. We also muse about the changin...
AT&T's Katibeh on bridging the digital divide
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mo Katibeh, SVP of network infrastructure and build for AT&T, examines several new use cases for how the service provider is addressing the 5G cus...
The Divide: New map shows 60M Americans lack Internet
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Eric Frank, CEO of LightBox – a real estate information and technology platform – on his company's just-released nat...
Verizon builds a private 5G network at the Port of Southampton
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Artley, SVP of Strategic Initiatives for Verizon Business, catches up with Light Reading after her keynote on Verizon's private 5G network de...
Mike O'Rielly, formerly of the FCC, cautions on infrastructure timing
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the FCC's former commissioners believes that Congress is poised to quickly approve around $65 billion in infrastructure spending on broadband i...
AT&T's Gordon Mansfield expands on plans for standalone 5G and open RAN
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon Mansfield, AT&T's vice president of converged access and device technology, joined us here to offer an update on the company's deployment o...
Boingo aims to bring connectivity and 'touchless travel' to airports
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Boingo CTO Derek Peterson provides an update on the company's partnerships with service providers on 5G deployments and how Boingo is supporting conta...
Exploring Dish's 5G vision
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sidd Chenumolu, Dish Network's vice president of technology development, offers an update on the company's national 5G network buildout and what Dish ...
Lumen's Mike Benjamin: An old RAT with new tricks
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lumen's Mike Benjamin joins the podcast to discuss the recent ReverseRAT update, a malware scheme that was used to target government and energy-sector...
Why Dish Network digs MVNOs
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Stokols, the Dish Network executive in charge of the company's growing camp of mobile brands, said Dish might not be done buying mobile virtua...
The Divide: MTA's Wanda Tankersley on Alaska's middle-mile problem
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from Wanda Tankersley, chief operating officer (COO) at MTA (or Matanuska Telecom Association), a telecommunications co-op in...
From our sponsor: Driving trends and emerging technologies in optical networks
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast will explore some of the key trends driving telecommunications networks, the challenges and opportunities for network operators, and how ...
The Divide: Tackling the global broadband gap with aerial mapping
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Jennifer Alvarez, Co-founder and CEO, Aurora Insight, a company that measures the availability of spectrum and wireless ...
Verizon on managing the mobile threat landscape
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Verizon's Terrance Robinson joins the podcast to share key findings from the service provider's Mobile Security Index. In addition, Robinson shares in...
Light Reading Recap: Week ending August 20
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included all the damage, and damage control, surrounding T-Mobile's recent hack and data breach. We also ponder wh...
The Divide: Virginia's Dr. Tamarah Holmes on running the country's 'OG' broadband office
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Dr. Tamarah Holmes, director of the Office of Broadband for the state of Virginia.Since the office was established ...
Light Reading Recap: Week ending August 13
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included some M&A speculation involving Reliance Jio and T-Mobile Netherlands. We also covered the new roaming...
Verizon's Suzanne Widup on data theft and donuts
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Verizon's Suzanne Widup joins the podcast to provide insight into cybersecurity trends and share key findings from the service provider's annual ...
The Divide: How Flume is tapping NYC's dark fiber to deliver affordable broadband
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Prashanth Vijay, founder and CEO of Flume, a last-mile, dark-fiber-based home broadband service.Flume was launched ...
Light Reading Recap: Week ending August 6
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included an overview of Rakuten's impressively aggressive plans, a look at Telegram's rapid growth and the looming...
Clearfield CEO Cheri Beranek on the growth of 'community' broadband
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Clearfield CEO Cheri Beranek joins the podcast to talk about how she's helped build a company that keeps growing as more and more community broadband ...
The Divide: Amdocs' Anthony Goonetilleke on the industry's shifting priorities
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Anthony Goonetilleke, group president of media, network and technology at Amdocs: a software and services provider for c...
Verizon uses computer vision to help customers help themselves
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Verizon's Erik Sheehan joins the Light Reading podcast to provide insight into the operator's use of computer vision for a variety of reasons, such as...
Lumen's Mike Benjamin: How telcos can catch a RAT
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lumen's Mike Benjamin joins the podcast to provide insight into a new remote access trojan, and explain who and what the bad actors were targeting. Ho...
The FBA's Gary Bolton on training the next wave of fiber techs
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Bolton, president and CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association, discusses the newly launched Optical Telecom Installation Certification (OpTIC) pro...
NTT Security's Bruce Snell and David Gray: Tracking Kaseya
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Kaseya ransomware attack is the latest in a trend of bad actors working together to target the supply chain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
Light Reading Recap: Week ending July 23
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included some spectrum auction and siesta news from Spain, an update on how Verizon moved forward with a fabulous,...
Orange Silicon Valley COO Gabriel Sidhom: How telcos and cloud providers get along
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Sidhom, COO for Orange Silicon Valley, joins the podcast to provide insight into service providers' move to the cloud and shares five drivers ...
The Divide: Hughes' Paul Gaske on upping speeds with a 'massive new satellite'
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Paul Gaske, EVP and general manager for HughesNet in North America, which operates the largest satellite broadband netwo...
Digital twinning at the Tour de France
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Any major sporting event has plenty going on behind the scenes. On this podcast, NTT's wizard behind the curtain, aka Tim Wade, shares his insight int...
The Divide: How Kajeet keeps kids and communities connected
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Dominic Marcellino, director of strategy and business development for Kajeet: a provider of Internet connectivity servic...
Light Reading Recap: Week ending July 9
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included some revealing numbers about the annual MWC Barcelona event, the US government walking back an unpreceden...
LR Editors: More pitches be crazy!
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Light Reading's editors are premium targets for PR firms and marketing experts all across the media landscape. But not all story ideas make it from th...
The Divide: CORI's Matt Dunne on closing the rural opportunity gap
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Matt Dunne, founder and executive director of the Center on Rural Innovation (CORI), a nonprofit action tank that starte...
Executive Spotlight Q&A: Here Technologies – Digital twins and 5G networks
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Digital Twins, high fidelity digital mirrors of processes or physical objects, are being used in many industries to optimize business outcomes but rem...
Light Reading recap: Week ending June 25
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included a look back at some huge 5G product news for Nokia, a summary of some new cloudy ideas coming from Mobile...
Cohere CEO: Open RAN ideal for enterprise applications
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Dolan, chairman and CEO of Cohere Technologies, joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss how Cohere is working with partners such as VMware, Cap...
The Divide: UTOPIA Fiber's Roger Timmerman on serving Utah with open access muni broadband
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Roger Timmerman, CEO of UTOPIA Fiber, an open access municipal fiber network in the state of Utah, formed by a group of ...
Light Reading recap: Week ending June 18
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included Viavi's ongoing pursuit of a merger with Exfo, Rakuten's open RAN plan to reveal what it's really paying ...
The Divide: Internet Society Foundation aims to bolster broadband with global grants
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Sarah Armstrong, executive director of the Internet Society Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic organization founded ...
Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim: The 5G future will be virtualized
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim joins the podcast to discuss why future 5G services will be virtualized, how AI can improve network performance and wh...
Telia Carrier CEO Staffan Göjeryd on divestment, discipline and world domination
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Telia Carrier CEO Staffan Göjeryd joins the podcast to explain what its divestment from Telia Group means for the service provider. Hosted on Acast. ...
Light Reading recap: Week ending June 11
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's telecom news highlights included a piece of good news for TikTok users in the US, a big bet on BT's fiber rollout from French telecom gian...
The Divide: INDATEL and Connected2Fiber on monetizing 'fiber to the farmhouse'
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Ben Edmond, founder and CEO of Connected2Fiber, a cloud platform that allows fiber providers and MSOs to plan and moneti...
Light Reading recap: Week ending June 4
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's news highlights included a look at big telco job numbers (they're dropping), Huawei's software strategy and T-Mobile's plans to connect ru...
The Divide: How Project Nandi is addressing Internet inequity in the Twin Cities
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from community leader Ini Augustine, founder of Project Nandi: a program that provides devices, technical support and broadba...
The Divide: Rep. Drew Hansen on passing Washington's Public Broadband Act
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Washington State Representative Drew Hansen, who has served the 23rd district since 2011. He is the lead sponsor of the ...
The Divide: Clearfield CEO Cheri Beranek on preparing for the 'fiber bubble'
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we hear from Cheri Beranek, president and CEO of Clearfield, a company that designs, manufactures and distributes fiber optic managem...
Comcast crafts accessibility features for Xfinity X1
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Wlodkowski, VP of accessibility for Comcast, joins the podcast to share how he got started in the accessibility field and explains the evolution o...