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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The Divide: How HFCL brought customized connectivity to Baidabettu and Baslambi, India

This week: Bhuvnesh Sachdeva, senior vice president at HFCL, and Devadas Pai, CEO of Nanocell Networks, on the challenges and lessons learned from delivering Wi-Fi to the villages of Baidabettu and B…

00:21:23 | Tue 15 Oct 2024

Asisat Oshoala minds the usage gap

Soccer legend Asisat Oshoala and the GSMA's CMO, Lara Dewar, join the podcast to promote women's tech literacy and to urge governments and citizens to close the mobile usage gap.

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00:10:49 | Sat 12 Oct 2024

LR Extra: CBRS proposal met with sour grapes

The Light Reading editors recap AT&T's CBRS proposal, which if approved, some in the industry say would have a "catastrophic" effect on spectrum distribution. We also discuss why the cheese tax is ge…

00:32:19 | Fri 11 Oct 2024

What's the Story? It's hard out there for a pay-TV provider

Charter is working on its latest pay-TV strategy to hold onto and hopefully expand its subscriber count.

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00:17:04 | Fri 11 Oct 2024

Ciena's CTO: Wrapping up a decades-long dance with DWDM

One of the optical networking industry's most approachable tech evangelists and all-around nice guys is retiring soon. Ciena's SVP and CTO Stephen Alexander joins the Light Reading podcast for a look…

00:41:27 | Thu 10 Oct 2024

TechExpo 2024: It's a wrap!

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner, Omdia's Jaimie Lenderman, Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick and Dell'Oro Group's Jeff Heynen discuss unified DOCSIS 4.0, the challenges ahead for DOCSIS 5.0 and the pote…

00:30:13 | Tue 08 Oct 2024

The need for fast, reliable fiber network deployment

Nir Hollander, Amdocs' GM of Mobile Networks, joins the podcast to talk about the state of fiber deployments worldwide and how Amodcs views fiber network design and AI's role in fiber deployments.

Ho…

00:19:05 | Tue 08 Oct 2024

The Divide: How ACP's lapse is impacting state broadband plans

This week: Jake Varn, associate manager with Pew's Broadband Access Initiative, discusses the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and the impact it's having on states' plans to close the…

00:30:17 | Tue 08 Oct 2024

CableLabs CEO on what's next for DOCSIS

At SCTE TechExpo in Atlanta, CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney talked about the next chapter for DOCSIS, how CableLabs is connecting with fiber and wireless, and the emerging role of AI and machine learnin…

00:14:51 | Mon 07 Oct 2024

LR Extra: It's mold, it has the juice

Light Reading editors recap the Dish and DirecTV merger, ongoing outages from Hurricane Helene and why French climbing ropes are best. We also explain what 'mold juice' is and why we wouldn't be caug…

00:33:32 | Fri 04 Oct 2024

GenAI sparks a data center shakeup

In this episode, Corning's Brian Rhoney and Bob Whitman explained how fiber infrastructure and computing requirements in and across data centers need to change to support GenAI versus traditional clo…

00:30:56 | Thu 26 Sep 2024

The Divide: How Veea is delivering wireless connectivity in remote Indonesia

This week: Ewam de Freitas, chief product officer at Veea, on the company's partnership with PT Bum Desa to deliver a wireless network in the city of Argamukti, Indonesia, and how the project is impa…

00:21:39 | Tue 24 Sep 2024

The ugly underbelly of falling telco opex

While telco opex dropped in 2023, the biggest contributor were divestments, which isn't ideal because service providers are selling business segments, explains Omdia's Adam Mackenzie.

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00:25:56 | Fri 20 Sep 2024

Prof. Feamster puts network performance under the microscope

University of Chicago Professor Nick Feamster and his teams at the Internet Equity Initiative and NetMicroscope are using data analytics to provide insight into regional network performance, applicat…

00:27:00 | Wed 18 Sep 2024

LR Extra: Tri-fold phones, high-end audio, bear safety and spy earrings

On the Light Reading Extra this week, we cover Huawei's new phone, Apple's iPhone hardware features, what to do if you're confronted by a bear, and the comforting thought of having a producer talking…

00:36:02 | Fri 13 Sep 2024

Telecom East: More 3G sunsets and how AI will change our devices

On the debut episode of Telecom East, Light Reading contributing editor Robert Clark and Ross O'Brien, analyst-in-chief at Delta Analysis, discuss 3G shutdowns, explore the latest numbers from Xiaomi…

00:31:37 | Fri 13 Sep 2024

What's the Story? No lemonade made from a Samsung/Nokia team up

Light Reading's Iain Morris explains why there's speculation about a potential $10 billion takeover by Samsung of Nokia's RAN business and whether such an acquisition is likely to happen.

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00:22:40 | Thu 12 Sep 2024

Unraveling the 'spaghetti' mess of cybersecurity

00:29:57 | Thu 05 Sep 2024

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