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Communications Day's Grahame Lynch keeps telco executives in ANZ up-to-date with essential business intelligence, featuring interviews with C-level executives and government ministers in this weekly podcast. Catch the show at: https://commsday.podbean.com/
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Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Telstra's strategy to realise greater value from its infrastructure paid dividends this week when it sold 49% of its tower business for $2.8b to a consortium of wealth and super funds. We bring you what InfraCo CEO Brendon Riley and Telstra CEO Andy Penn had to say.
(5:01) We also revisit the Australasia Satellite Forum last week: in particular, a panel of operators asked what's hot in the enterprise market and whether there is still resistance to use of satellite there. Speakers include Optus' Nick Miller, Telstra's Sandeep Kumar, Speedcast's Hamish Lee, Av-Comm's Michael Cratt, ST Engineering iDirect's Michael Walshe and NBN Co's Jason Ashton.
(15.22) And we wrap up with a panel looking at the job being done by the Australia Space Agency and whether government is doing the right thing by the space sector. Featured are Sitael's Mark Ramsey, Symbios' George Dyke, Equatorial Launch Australia's Carley Scott, Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants' Bill Barrett and Moonshot's Troy McCann.
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
A special edition of CommsDay Live taking a look at the Australasia Satellite Forum which was held in Sydney this week.
In this episode, we hear from Optus head of satellite and space systems Nick Leake, EOS Communications Systems CEO Glen Tindall, federal regional communications minister Mark Coulton, NSR research analyst Jose Del Rosario and Satsol CEO Tony Ferris,
We also feature a sponsored interview with Telstra head of satellite sales Sandeep Kumar.
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
NBN Co kicked off the process to revamping its Special Access Undertaking this week with a pricing options paper designed to kick start a industry discussion ahead of an ACCC roundtable later this month. The paper makes some concessions on the controversial CVC but is backed with research from Accenture predicting price rises at the lower end if the usage charge is completely removed. We are joined by NBN Co legal and regulatory head Jane Van Beelen and EGM, commercial pricing Ken Walliss to discuss the paper.
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
We talk with James Spenceley, the founder of Vocus and chair of Airtasker, about Swoop, the company he also chairs and which just listed on the ASX in the past few days.
We also catch up with Commsday's Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce talking about TV spectrum, fibre innovation and much more
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
This week Grahame Lynch talks with Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin on the telco's annual results, which were a tale of two halves with bright spots in mobiles and enterprises. We also follow up with Simon Dux on Optus' latest 5G standalone breakthrough.
We also chat with the regional director of OneWeb, David Thorn, about the satellite firm's regional plans and finish up with Rohan Pearce reporting from the Senate Estimates NBN hearing.
Friday May 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
In this edition of CommsDay Live we take an extended look at an issue many have put in the too hard basket: how to get OTTs to pay their share of the expensive broadband network investment which gets their offerings to the masses. Canopus Networks' Vijay Sivaraman and Kevin Bloch talk with Grahame Lynch about a problem that suddenly doesn't seem so insurmountable now that OTTs are compensating legacy media publishers on precisely the same "unequal bargaining power" grounds.
We also talk with the CommsDay editors Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce about the news of the week.
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
In this week's special CommsDay Summit edition of the podcast we hear from:
[01.00] Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin on the Living Network initiative
[12.00] Telstra CEO Andy Penn on what telcos need to do to help the digitisation of society
[19.30] CommsDay's Simon Dux on what communications minister Paul Fletcher and Vocus keynote speakers said
[26.45] CommsDay's Rohan Pearce on what Symbio Networks' Rene Sugo and HyperOne said at the event
Thursday May 06, 2021
Thursday May 06, 2021
This week we held The Great 5G Panel at CommsDay Summit.
The MC was Steve Cannane from the ABC and the panelists were:
- Telstra network engineering executive Ash Hunter
- Optus director, network planning, access & quality Kent Wu
- TPG Telecom GM wireless transmission network Yago Lopez
- Nokia Oceania CTO Rob Joyce
- VMWare Telco Solutions Architect APJC Arul Dharmalingam
- Ericsson acting head of network solutions ANZ James Evans
2.00 The big inversion of 5G is coming - how will it change industries and the economy?
15.30 What is the role for open cloud and open RAN in 5G networks?
29.05 There is a push for a cloud native 5G core - is this achievable or even desirable?
35.00 What does standalone 5G mean for the mobile network? Why is it important?
42.05 How can 5G improve revenue and can it claim a share of the wallet spend currently dedicated to fixed broadband?
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
In this edition of CommsDay Live we talk with:
* Telstra CEO Andy Penn about the operator's spectrum win in the mmWave band
* CommsDay chief Simon Dux about Pentanet, the WA ISP who bought 5G spectrum in Perth
* NBN Co's CCO Brad Whitcomb and EGM, commercial Ken Walliss on the operator's new pricing review paper and its plan to work with the ACCC on future initiatives
* CommsDay executive editor Rohan Pearce talks about RSP reaction to the NBN's paper
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
In CommsDay Live this week:
* we speak with executive editor Rohan Pearce on Telstra's payphone setback plus an extended dissertation on its marketing strategy from its CMO
* we have an extended chat with Cradlepoint AP MD Gavin Wilson on the role of LTE and 5G in the enterprise
* we chat with chief editor Simon Dux on new regional communications funding and the rise and rise of ribbon fibre