Vocus is the diamond sponsor of this year's CommsDay Summit and we took the opportunity to speak with its head of enterprise and government Andrew Wildblood about this year's talking points and developments at the company
Grahame Lynch chats with Adam Beck, the head of digital urbanism at ENE.HUB, about the company's vision for frictionless 5G and how its smart pole functionality is building bridges with local communities and government.
In this episode we catch up with former M2 and Vocus boss Geoff Horth to find out about his new converged service provider SUPA and the new shadow communications minister comes to the studio.
TPG Telecom returned a good set of numbers this week in an indication that it has turned the corner and now has positive momentum in the years ahead. Grahame Lynch spoke with Inaki Berroeta.
In this special sponsored edition of CommsDay Live, Grahame Lynch talks with Mansour Karam, the co-founder of Apstra, now a unit of Juniper Networks. In this podcast, they discuss the origin story of Apstra, how Karam saw a shared vision between Apstra and Juniper, what was the original problem that Apstra sought to solve, the idea behind intent-based networking and how Apstra performs in blind end-user studies. They conclude by discussing what lies in the future for Apstra....
This week we take a look at a new academic paper which finds fault with national broadband measurement programs and suggests alternative ways to get more meaningful data on broadband experiences with co-author Dr Vijay Sivaraman. We also hear from the new CEO of Vocus, Ellie Sweeney, who replaces the retiring Kevin Russell in a few weeks.
CommsDay Live, the podcast, is back for 2023. In this episode, host Grahame Lynch catches up with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce to discuss all the top news that happened over the January holidays.
In our last episode for calendar year 2022, we chat with: 0.00 Vocus chief executive, enterprise and government Andrew Wildblood about what his company in doing in leosats, private LTE and fibre deployments in the north of Australia 11.45 Amdocs VP, Customer Business Executive for the ANZ region Zoltan Losteiner and hear what he has to say about trends in enterprise communications and network automation, and 24.15 Telco Together founder Renee Bowker on their tenth anniversary, highlights and pla...
In this episode we hear from Indara's Jason Horley and Matt Healy on their plan for a regional mobile network in uneconomic markets that could support the needs of all three cellcos and more, as per the NZ RCG model. Our editors Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux look at a series of related announcements and views from Amplitel, the NT government and NSW Gig State.
In this episode we hear from Amplitel CEO Jon Lipton and chat with CommsDay editors Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce about the week that was
CommsDay held its Wholesale Forum this week in Sydney: Directions for Australian telecom wholesale with panellists Zia Bhadiar partner, Oliver Wyman, Venture Insights MD David Kennedy, Vocus GM - Wholesale national sales Tristan Clash, Symbio GM Products Dylan Brown, Superloop chief commercial officer Nick Pachos and Swoop CTO Tom Berryman. This panel looks at the big trends in Australian wholesale markets: NBN resale, dark fibre and private access networks, 5G, leosat and more The moderator is ...
This week, we speak with: * Executive editor Rohan Pearce about the government's post budget regional comms roadshow * Swoop's chief revenue officer Sean Clarke joins us to talk about his company and its wholesale strategy, and * Vocus dir, government relations Luke Coleman on the problems with overlapping and expensive universal service subsidies and how LEOsats may come to the rescue
This week, Grahame Lynch and Simon Dux discuss the impact on the telecom sector of the federal budget. We also chat with Dominic Morrow and Michelle Peter from Aussie Broadband about what their company is doing in the wholesale space, while we also catch up with newly appointed head of Ciena in ANZ, Ivan Polizzi.
In this edition, we chat with Mark Rafferty, the CEO of FibreconX and we hear from communications minister Michelle Rowland who delivered the Charles Todd Oration today.
In this episode we hear some of the highlights of Telstra chairman John Mullan's statements at this week's AGM and we talk about the news of the week with CommsDay chief editor Simon Dux
This week Grahame Lynch talks about the Optus data breach and we hear from Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, communications minister Michelle Rowland and treasurer Jim Chalmers. Grahame also talks with the visiting SVP from Ribbon Communications, David Hiscock.
This week we listen in to Telstra CEO Vicky Brady and shadow minister Sarah Henderson at the annual ACCAN event, discuss the rather bleak view of the ACCC of the telco sector and discuss Australian plays on satellite-to-mobile. We return in two weeks
Telstra made two big tech announcements this week around the AFL and NRL rights. We get the lowdown from Simon Dux who interviewed Telstra CFO Michael Ackland.
In this episode of CommsDay Live: * what Telstra CEO Vicki Brady said in her first speech in the role * Senator Jim Molan talks physical threats to telecom infrastructure * Telegeography analyst Marvin Tan on trans Pacific capacity * Nokia President of Network Infrastructure Federico Guillen on supply chain issues
In this edition we play the highlights of Telstra CEO Andy Penn's NPC address on cybersecurity and what Optus' Gladys Berejiklian said at the Daily Telegraph Bush Summit in Griffith.
In this week's podcast, Grahame Lynch discusses the latest TPG Telecom results with CEO Inaki Berroeta and does a deep dive into the future of the NBN Co with Symbio CEO Rene Sugo
Both Telstra and NBN Co released their financial results this week. We hear from Michael Ackland, Brendon Riley and Andy Penn of Telstra about fixed wireless, national fibre trunk and network sharing topics while we also have an extended chat with NBN CEO Stephen Rue about his results.
In this special edition of Commsday Live, we chat with Julian Todd, the great great grandson of Sir Charles Todd, who pioneered the overland telegraph cable from Adelaide to Darwin which connected the Australian colonies to the world for the first time. This month sees the 150th anniversary of this massive 19th century engineering feat.
In this episode, CommsDay's Grahame Lynch and Rohan Pearce cogitate over minister Michelle Rowland's decision this week to ask the NBN, ACCC and RSPs to try again and come up with a mutually agreeable Special Access Undertaking.
In this week's CommsDay Live, the editors team of Grahame Lynch, Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux look at NBN, Starlink, ACMA's new spectrum auction, Victrak and More Telecom.
This week CommsDay editors Grahame Lynch, Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce discuss: * TPG's response to Optus' criticisms of the Telstra network sharing pact * NBN Co's HFC triumph * Cellular industry embraces satellite delivery of 5G * Whats happening at Circles.Life * and much much more
In this special edition of CommsDay Live, we bring you Gladys Berejiklian's first interview with media since she stepped down as NSW Premier to join Optus as managing director of enterprise, business and institutional. In this interview, she talks about why she chose to work in telecoms - and specifically Optus - for her post-political career, how she sees tough economic times impacting telecom spend and what she thinks about the proposed Telstra-TPG network sharing pact.
In this podcast we take a deep dive at TPG's investor day this week and listen to excerpts of what CEO Inaki Berroeta and consumer head Kieren Cooney had to say about the telco's trajectory as they consolidate following their merger with Vodafone. And then later on in the show (15:00) we hear more from Cooney on the Telstra regional network tie-up and a fulsome response from Optus' VP regulatory and public affairs Andrew Sheridan who contends the deal will be bad for competition.
This week we take a look at what happened at the Australasia Satellite Forum and from Australia's first astronaut Paul Scully-Power on what is about to happen in what he terms Space 2.0 and the Space Internet. It's a bold vision he paints. We also discuss other highlights of the event with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce.
Grahame Lynch talks about the news of the week with Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux including free NBN from the CBA for some loan customers, new builds from Marchnet and Nexthop, and the latest in Victorian government telco funding
