Light Reading Podcasts

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 facility. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 from outages. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this podcast, Nokia's Stephan Litjens explains how the private network landscape is changing, and how Nokia partners with service providers to address the private network needs of enterprise customers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 assist first responders during natural disasters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this Light Reading Extra podcast, SES' Nadine Allen explains how the satellite operator is applying AI, ML and SDN to improve application and network performance, and how the company is providing connectivity to underserved areas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Opensignal's Sylwia Kechiche joins the podcast to explain what customers really want from their wireless service providers, and why fixed wireless access (FWA) is a growing 5G use case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode features Dr. Paroma Sanyal, principal at the Brattle Group, a consultancy working on a range of issues including telecom, finance and consumer protection. We discuss a study released by the Brattle Group last month exploring the economic benefits of broadband and the massive economic savings offered by the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which ran out of funding in 2024. For healthcare alone, the Brattle Group found that, by enabling access to telehealth, the ACP would have saved an estimated $28.9 billion to $29.5 billion in annual healthcare costs, or "quadruple the annual funding" ($7.3 billion) to run the ACP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosts Robert Clark and Ross O'Brien cover SK Telecom's AI revenues, Goldman Sachs tapping into Asia's data center boom and some 5G standalone stats. They're joined by Telstra CEO Roary Stasko to discuss the role of the global cable operator in the age of hyperscalers and how to deal with subsea cable threats. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How cable company Optimum prepares for inclement weather, and why extreme heat can create the most network management headaches. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.