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Light Reading Podcasts
Light Reading
908 episodes
1 week ago

This feed is Light Reading's main podcast feed for "The Light Reading Podcast," "The Divide," "The Light Reading Extra," and "What's the Story?"


Light Reading provides daily news, analysis and insight for the global communications networking and services industry. The publication was founded in 2000 and, since July 2016, has been a part of Informa Tech, a division of Informa PLC. We're part of a big team providing specialist research, media, events and training for businesses and professionals working in technology.


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This feed is Light Reading's main podcast feed for "The Light Reading Podcast," "The Divide," "The Light Reading Extra," and "What's the Story?"


Light Reading provides daily news, analysis and insight for the global communications networking and services industry. The publication was founded in 2000 and, since July 2016, has been a part of Informa Tech, a division of Informa PLC. We're part of a big team providing specialist research, media, events and training for businesses and professionals working in technology.


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Light Reading Podcasts
Ookla's Mike Dano on spectrum sagas and WBD dramas
Mike Dano, Light Reading's former mobile guy who's now at Ookla, joins the podcast to catch up on all of the intrigue involving mobile and spectrum and some thoughts about the ongoing battle for Warner Bros. Discovery.  

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2 weeks ago
38 minutes 57 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
Managed Wi-Fi: cutting costs and boosting revenue
Nokia's Dirk Verhaegen discusses how operators can transform Wi-Fi from a cost center to a revenue driver with cloud-managed networks and AI insights. This episode is sponsored by Nokia.

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3 weeks ago
22 minutes 46 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
What's the state of play for CBRS?

David Wright of Spectrum for the Future and Jason Wallin with the OnGo Alliance discuss how CBRS might be impacted as the FCC and NTIA look high and low for spectrum. They also explain whether the band is under siege or only mildly threatened.




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4 weeks ago
39 minutes 24 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
AI and the future of high-end block storage
Hitachi Vantara's Octavian Tanase, Chief Product Officer joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey to discuss how AI is reshaping enterprise infrastructure design and driving the next generation of high-end block storage.  

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1 month ago
21 minutes 13 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
The Divide: How Western Massachusetts towns banded together for better broadband
This week: Jess Auer (Institute for Local Self-Reliance) and David Kulp (Ashfield, Massachusetts) on ILSR's new report exploring how 19 Western Massachusetts towns collaborated to connect their communities to municipal broadband.

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1 month ago
33 minutes 26 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
The Divide: How Digicel is recovering from Hurricane Melissa

This week: Digicel's Liam Donnelly joins the podcast to discuss how the operator is restoring network services in regions ravaged by Hurricane Melissa. We also cover broader digital divide issues affecting the Caribbean and more.




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1 month ago
31 minutes 26 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
The rise of 25G and 50G PON
Nokia's Geert Heyninck discusses how 25G/50G PON are shaping the next wave of connectivity and how operators can harness them to drive new growth.

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1 month ago
22 minutes 11 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
The Divide: How NYC is breaking broadband barriers with 'Neighborhood Tech Help'
This week: Dave Seliger (NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development) and Dr. Brandy McNeil (New York Public Library) discuss New York's Neighborhood Tech Help program and the role it plays in solving the digital divide.

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2 months ago
35 minutes 38 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
Signal Strength: What's next for DOCSIS and Verizon's fiber strategy?
Dell'Oro Group's Jeff Heynen joins the first 'Signal Strength' podcast to discuss the big takeaways from TechExpo 2025, Verizon's new fiber partnership, CommScope's 'RemainCo' and a check into cable earnings season.

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2 months ago
38 minutes 39 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
The Divide: Paolo Balboa on NYC's road to achieving digital equity
This week: Paolo Balboa, NYC's chief digital equity officer, joins the podcast to discuss the main barriers to broadband throughout New York, what's been accomplished so far with the city's Digital Equity Roadmap and more.

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2 months ago
28 minutes 6 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
The Divide: Gigi Sohn on the bad state of BEAD and promise of public broadband
This week: Gigi Sohn, executive director, American Association for Public Broadband, on why the revised BEAD program is unlikely to live up to its initial promise and how public broadband networks can deliver for communities.

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2 months ago
34 minutes 9 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
Why operators and enterprises are turning to LoRaWAN

LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey to discuss LoRaWAN’s ten-year journey and its role in powering massive IoT. They also examine why leading operators are investing in LoRaWAN alongside 5G, and where the technology shines.




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3 months ago
24 minutes 14 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
Tech and policy set to collide at SCTE TechExpo 2025

SCTE's Maria Popo and Janelle Morse join the podcast to talk themes and topics that will dominate TechExpo 2025 in Washington, DC. Atlanta will host TechExpo 2026, then the show will be in Denver for the foreseeable future.




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3 months ago
25 minutes 54 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
New book chronicles the dawn of streaming and cable's dive into digital
Craig Leddy, a long-time industry journalist and Light Reading contributor, joins the podcast to discuss his new book: 'Fast Forward: The Birth of Video Streaming, Media's Wild Child'.

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3 months ago
46 minutes 23 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
COO Rocco Laurenzano on the 'GFiber way'

Amid GFiber's ongoing network expansions, the company's COO, Rocco Laurenzano, digs into the company's approach to prioritizing projects and allocating resources. 'The real killer of productivity are half-done projects,' he says.




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3 months ago
37 minutes 9 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
The Divide: Blair Levin on what's next for bargain BEAD

New Street Research policy analyst Blair Levin joins the podcast to discuss the outcome of BEAD's 'benefit of the bargain' bidding and how federal policy changes may exacerbate the digital divide despite increasing access.



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4 months ago
34 minutes 30 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
CSPs bank on wavelength services to monetize AI traffic

In this podcast, Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin explains why many communications service providers (CSPs) believe AI will increase connectivity demand at a greater rate in their long-haul networks and why they expect wavelength services to be the dominant transport service for AI connectivity.




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4 months ago
30 minutes 35 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
What's the Story? AT&T's $23B EchoStar spectrum splurge

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to discuss AT&T's decision to scoop up a swath of EchoStar's low- and mid-band spectrum for $23 billion, what this means for the broader telecom industry and what to expect next.




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4 months ago
19 minutes 31 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
AI alone can't fix a messy OSS
In this episode:

  • Why Ciena acquired Blue Planet (01:37)
  • How Blue Planet's strategy has evolved from addressing service provider requirements for network management (04:17)
  • How Blue Planet is applying agentic AI technologies to OSS (14:53)

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4 months ago
27 minutes 16 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts
Celebrity MVNOs are interesting, but do they help telco sales?
In this episode:

  • Some background on Zappi and how it provides brands like PepsiCo, McDonald's and Heineken with consumer data and insights to help fuel their advertising (01:00)
  • A review of the celebrity MVNO sector and some other product areas endorsed or owned by celebrities (3:30)
  • Celebrity-focused ads are distinctive, but they don't necessarily provide a near-term sales bump (7:45)
  • How and why the effectiveness of celebrity advertising varies by age group (21:40)
  • Brand recall also differs among age groups (27:30)
  • How Trump Mobile and its golden T1 phone might resonate in the market (30:00)
  • Other ways celebrity MVNOs may try to stand out in the market (35:40)

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4 months ago
39 minutes 22 seconds

Light Reading Podcasts

This feed is Light Reading's main podcast feed for "The Light Reading Podcast," "The Divide," "The Light Reading Extra," and "What's the Story?"


Light Reading provides daily news, analysis and insight for the global communications networking and services industry. The publication was founded in 2000 and, since July 2016, has been a part of Informa Tech, a division of Informa PLC. We're part of a big team providing specialist research, media, events and training for businesses and professionals working in technology.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.