Light Reading Podcasts

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 Baslambi, India.

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.

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 getting out of control, Mike Dano's recipe for frozen sour grapes and more.

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

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 back and a look ahead.

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 potential for 5G on HFC.

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.

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 digital divide.

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 learning.