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The team is joined once more by the incomparable Mary Clark, who is no longer living on the edge but still has plenty to say about roaming. With talk at the recent MWC 2017 trade show dominated by 5G they try to reel in the hype and question the return on investment from all this 5G-ness we’re supposed to be getting so excited about. Later they conclude Nokia is the Sri Lankan bus driver of the telecoms industry, discuss the pros and cons of walls and Tim walks out for the very last time. Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

For journalists Mobile World Congress starts months before the official event, with companies shooting loads of releases all over our inboxes. The team review the flood of marketing missives received in the build-up to the big communications climax and ponder whether it’s worth all the hassle. Meanwhile Tim tells us about his African experiences and Jamie fondly recalls a subsidised drinking in Berlin. Scott once more offends Tim so much that he storms off again. Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

While the gang ponders how smartphone sales have grown, a bit of a debate ensues over how big a deal video will really be in the future. 5G gets a new logo, and no one is really that bothered. Parents don’t understand kids. Jamie finds a deep fried burger. Tim finds a beef doughnut. Scott nearly sneezes. Jamie gets surprisingly annoyed by a pointless IoT-shirt. Scott gets a bit condescending, and Tim storms off. Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

With Snapchat's holding company floating last week, Scott and Jamie ponder what it's really useful for - and Millennial Jamie gives Generation-X Scott a lesson in young people's social media. Facebook's jolly good quarter gets examined, Openreach falls under the spotlight AGAIN and the guys look at "research" that suggests people are more likely to dump their significant other than change broadband provider… Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

Tim’s back from his mid-winter holiday to pry the hot seat from Scott’s grasp. The reunited trio go over the troubles facing the smartphone market in 2017 as well as a landmark case of Microsoft vs the US government. Elsewhere AT&T’s CEO gets his hands dirty following Trump’s arrival; Ericsson and Cisco each have a refocus on this year’s strategy; BT edges closer to hating everyone after a difficult week in Europe, and the Apple joins the Partnership for AI as a founding partner… four months after it launched. Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

Tim, Jamie and Ray have all abandoned Scott this week, but Iain Morris from Light Reading is still in town to make sure Mr. Bicheno doesn’t end up rambling into a microphone on his own for 45 minutes. The two of them chew the fat about Ericsson and Cisco’s ludicrously friendly relationship. Elsewhere, Trump gets to work on… whatever an unexpected President does; and a long and expensive investigation into the exploding Note7 concludes it was down to a faulty battery… well no sh!t… Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

The Week In Wireless posse sees Tim debatably upgraded to Ray from Light Reading for the time being. The plucky telecoms hacks soldier on regardless and discuss the apparent moment of truth faced by their industry, which faces the prospect of connectivity costing more to deliver than it makes in revenue. In an attempt to lighten things up they then talk about some of the shininess unveiled at CES, but soon fall out over connected fridges. They sign off by looking at the task faced by Ericsson’s new CEO and wish him good luck – he’ll need it. Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

The Week In Wireless gang is back for 2017 with another special episode featuring all of your favourites. Tim, Jamie, Scott, Mary, Richard, Alex and Henry all return to the podcast studio to forecast the biggest trends we can all expect in telecoms and technology across the coming 12 months. Will Nokia and Ericsson right 2016’s wrongs and renew the three-way battle with Huawei? Will anyone find a proper use for wearable? Will Mary go off on another rant? Will Tim ever get over his laryngitis? This episode was recorded immediately after the festivities of The Christmas Special – we’ll let you draw your own conclusions. Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

It’s Christmas time and the Week in Wireless gang is here with your favourite guests from 2016. Mary Clark, Richard Fogg, Henry Burrell and Alex Wood join Tim, Scott and Jamie to go over everything the last twelve months brought us. Full of festive cheer, Christmas dinner and lovely lovely beer, the gang reflect on the highs, the lows and the hilarious of 2016. So pour yourself a glass of sherry, sit down by the fire, get comfortable and let A Week In Wireless guide you through the year that was. Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO

This week Tim’s husky voice even makes AT&T’s dodgy billing sound sexy. Ofcom turns the tables on the Fix Britain’s Internet’ perennial moaners by giving them the chance to do fibre themselves. The gang examine the names behind the internet’s biggest companies, Amazon opens the super store of the future, Bluetooth says it’s going to do more Bluetoothing, and IoT saves the day for one car owner in the States – oh and the guys come with the industry’s sexiest new acronym: Super-aaS. Stay up to date with the most important telecoms stories from around the world with the Telecoms.com daily newsletter. Delivered FREE and direct to your inbox every day: http://ow.ly/XPA150KWZmO