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.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 892
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
The Divide: How inaccurate broadband mapping is still impeding access
The Divide: How Mission Telecom and C4P are rolling out low-cost 5G hotspots
AI technologies are only as good as their managers
ESG's Jim Frey joins the podcast to discuss why developing the right tools to provide oversight and coordination across agentic and GenAI technologies will be key to network planning and performance.
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What's the Story? FCC's EchoStar investigation
Waiting for BEAD, tracking the MDU broadband renaissance
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The Divide: FBA's Marissa Mitrovich on the growth of fiber and future of BEAD
This week: Marissa Mitrovich, VP of public policy at the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA), on the growth of FTTH access across the US, the state of the BEAD program and what's on tap for the 2025 Fi…
Coherent Routing Comes of Age: Discussing Heavy Reading’s New Survey Results
In this podcast, Heavy Reading analyst Sterling Perrin sits down with Ciena’s Sr. Director of Product Line Management, Rafael Francis, and VP, Product Line Management, Tim Pearson, to review the key …
What's the Story? Charter, Cox to combine
Telecom East: Samsung gets caught in Trump tariff crossfire
Extreme Networks CTO on the trouble with 'AI washing'
There comes a point when the adage "there's an app for that" becomes too on-the-nose.
Enterprises need to be able to manage numerous networking and security applications from multiple vendors, but bal…
The Divide: Trump terminates Digital Equity Act – now what?
This week: Angela Siefer, executive director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), on the impact of President Trump 'ending' the $2.75 billion Digital Equity Act and how advocates can fi…
What's the Story? Gogo and the saga of 'rip and replace'
The Divide: How DigitalC is closing Cleveland's connectivity gaps
What's the Story? Telecom and the Trump Tax
Southeast Asia's huge data center buildout
The Divide: Why states want the feds to 'get out of the way' of BEAD
This week: Missouri State Rep. Louis Riggs and Benton's Drew Garner join the podcast to discuss their collaborative effort with over 100 state lawmakers to urge the Trump administration to let states…
Comcast Business gets agnostic with 'dedicated' Internet expansion
Christian Nascimento explains how Comcast Business has expanded the capabilities of a 'dedicated' Internet service armed with symmetrical speeds and service level agreements across both HFC and FTTP.
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Verizon VP on bringing IoT insights to the NBA
Verizon's Shamik Basu explains how the service provider is working with customers to manage their Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure, and why the operator is partnering with Skylo and Singtel to…
The Divide: How federal funds and horses brought broadband to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
