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
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Why low-power TV stations have high hopes for 5G Broadcast
'SuperFrank' Copsidas discusses why low-power TV stations are keen on 5G Broadcast and explains why he's confident that 5G Broadcast tech is poised to be featured in a wide array of smartphones.
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Analyzing the size and scope of Trump's tariffs
PwC's Dallas Dolen digs into the financial impact the tech, media and telecom sectors could see in the wake of President Trump's sweeping tariffs and weighs in on what companies might do to mitigate …
What's the Story? What cable customers really want
During the Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies conference, cable execs discussed using AI and ML to improve customer experience, how their mobile service offerings are performing and why some ar…
Nokia’s James Watt discusses technologies addressing hyperscalers and data centers networks at OFC50
Telecom East: The decline in telco capex
Hosts Robert Clark and Ross O'Brien look at China's parallel digital universe and Jio's global O-RAN ambitions, and they speak with Dell'Oro's Stefan Pongratz about the massive drop-off in the RAN ma…
John Deere's private 5G network is 'Never Idle'
In this podcast, John Deere's Jason Wallin explains the company's strategy for deploying private 5G at its Davenport Works connected factory and why the company deployed two digital twins at the faci…
The Divide: How subsea cable cuts put spotlight on Internet resilience
This week: Ryan Polk and Steve Song from the Internet Society join the podcast to discuss the rise in subsea cable cuts and the role of resilient Internet infrastructure in preventing and recovering …
Nokia VP on taking private wireless networks out to sea
Verizon Frontline President on why data makes all the difference in a natural disaster
In this Light Reading Extra podcast, Verizon Frontline's Maggie Hallbach explains how the service provider is supporting the delivery of data insights and providing smaller temporary mobile assets to…
SES brings AI, ML to space
Verizon CTO on energy-efficient AI and building telco APIs
Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio joins the podcast to discuss how the service provider is bringing AI capabilities closer to customers, and why it's working with AT&T and T-Mobile on developing telco APIs.
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Speed isn't a top concern for wireless subscribers – Opensignal
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The Divide: How affordable broadband benefits the economy
Telecom East: The bandwidth business in the age of hyperscalers and AI
Heat is a huge villain in mother nature versus the network
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Machine spurning: Light Reading's editors recap MWC Barcelona 2025
Boingo CEO Mike Finely on venue networks and AI's potential
FirstNet's dedication starts with a dedicated mobile core
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