CommsDay Live

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.

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.

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

 

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?

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

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

In this episode we talk to:

* CommsDay chief editor Simon Dux on the entry of Samsung into the Australian 5G network market and momentum building for an Australia-Antarctica submarine cable
* Enex TestLab's Matt Tett on the development of an IoT device security mark scheme
* CommsDay executive editor Rohan Pearce on bad telco behaviour with financially distressed customers and the latest from Aussie Broadband

In this week's CommsDay Live we speak to:

* OneQode CEO Matt Shearing about the new gaming hub it has established in Guam which seeks to equalise latencies for gamers across the region

* CommsDay's Simon Dux on a new public safety mobile broadband trial and reforms in datacentre planning approvals in NSW

* CommsDay's Rohan Pearce on Telstra's treatment of indigenous customers and the end of pandemic co-operation between NBN Co and its RSPs

 

In this special diet edition of CommsDay Live, Grahame Lynch and Simon Dux look at:

* proposed new space launch fees that have Australian companies worried
* A new CBRE survey that says positive things about the Australian DC investment outlook
* Deloitte's take on telcos and hyperscalers
* New telecom regulatory officials at the ACCC, and
* NBN Co getting close to urban planning authorities

In this episode of CommsDay Live we talk with:

* Viasat chief officer, global government affairs John Janka tells us about its dispute with SpaceX and what the actual issues are with co-ordination of competing satellite constellations

* We dissect the MIRA/Aware takeover bid for Vocus with Simon Dux

* We talk about the ACCC's latest probe on Google and ACMA's plans to introduce spectrum management reform