CommsDay Live

In this episode of CommsDay Live we

* interview auDA CEO Rosemary Sinclair to find out what's happening in the Australian domain space
* speak with Superloop CEO Paul Tyler to hear about latest results and thoughts on the future, and
* hear from Uniti CEO Mick Simmons on opportunities and challenges ahead

In this episode, we speak to:

ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin on her surprise move to Telstra to take a consumer advocacy role

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin on the new SubHub platform

and, Vocus CEO Kevin Russell on a new cable connecting Darwin and Singapore

In this episode,

* Federal communications minister Paul Fletcher tells how he arrived at his spectrum cap decision this week,
* NBN CEO Stephen Rue describes the factors that helped the operator overcome some adversity to meet its targets for the FY, and
* Telstra CEO Andy Penn tells us about the trends in its core mobile business over the past FY

 

In this week's episode:

* Aussie Broadband MD Phil Britt talks about how churn wins fed its high 4Q growth and how COVID is impacting its NBN POI fibre deployment

* Superloop CEO Paul Tyler talks about the Exetel acquisition, and

* in a sponsored interview, Telstra's Ashley Grove talks about how businesses are adopting the NBN Satellite Service

 

In this week's show we hear from:

* The CEO of Boost Mobile, Peter Adderton, about his plans to expand the MVNO into new areas such as mobile and NBN broadband.

* and, Luke Hartsuyker who is heading the triennial review into regional telecommunications.

In this episode, we speak with:

* Tangerine and More Telecom founder Andrew Branson on a partnership with CBA
* TPG Telecom enterprise GM customer sales and strategy Chris Russo on its aggressive plans in the segment, and
* FSG CEO Andrew Roberts on its innovative new trials of regional domestic roaming and neutral hosting

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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.

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