Light Reading Podcasts

MetTel CTO Ed Fox joins the podcast to discuss why the service provider decided to partner with Starlink as a reseller and how MetTel can provide satellite connectivity as a managed service to customers.

In this podcast, the Light Reading editors discuss why some telcos are convinced that network APIs will unlock new revenue streams.

Runar Bjorhovde, analyst for Canalys, joined the podcast to explain why smartphone vendors are banking on AI.

This week: Cabot Mayor Ken Kincade, Connect2First's Candace Looper, DZS' Geoff Burke and Irby Utilities' Josh Collver on their partnership to launch the first city-owned fiber network in the state of Arkansas.

It's the Halloween edition of the Light Reading extra podcast, where our editors and an esteemed guest walk through the digital cemetery looking for gadget zombies and technologies that still haunt us. Palm Pilots, Secret Senders, weird Wi-Fi phones and Slacker music are some things that creep up in this freewheeling conversation.  

In this episode, Light Reading contributing editor Robert Clark and Ross O'Brien, analyst-in-chief at Delta Analysis, discuss what KKR's entry into cable construction might mean for the subsea business. This episode also features an interview with author William Webb, who says the mobile industry needs to focus on cost-effective coverage rather than expensive new capabilities.

This week: Shirley Bloomfield, CEO of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, joins to discuss legal uncertainty around the Universal Service Fund (USF), and why preserving USF programs is crucial for rural providers and families.

Opensignal's Sylwia Kechiche joined the podcast to dive into Opensignal's findings on the causes of network performance disparity between local and roaming wireless customers.