CommsDay Live

#115 Telstra's Channa Seneviratne on the 3G shutdown and some 4G incompatibilities

Telstra executive, technology development and innovation Channa Seneviratne talks about the impending 3G shutdown and the specific issue of those with older 4G handsets which may default to 3G for emergency calls. he also talks about the efforts being made by Telstra and other telcos to educate affected users.

#114 MWC wrap with Long Street Advisors' Mohammad Chowdhury & Re Group's Patrick Guerrera

In this special edition we have an extended discussion with two Australian-based sectoral experts who travelled to MWC in Barcelona.

First up, Long Street Advisors' CEO Mohammad Chowdhury, a former PWC partner, Vodafone and IBM exec and World Bank economist, who filed a daily column for CommsDay from MWC and joins us on the podcast to look back at the event.

And secondly, from around the 18.00 mark, we speak with Re Group (M & C Saatchi) CEO Patrick Guerrera who has worked on the Optus brand over the past decade and shares his unique perspectives on what he saw at MWC.

Across the two interviews we cover a gamut of topics ranging from AI to quantum to the digital divide and the great 5G ROI drought!

#113 Telstra CEO Vicki Brady at MWC | New iSeek CEO Scott Hicks

In this week's edition, we hear what Vicki Brady, Telstra CEO, had to say at Mobile World Congress, we catch up with the new CEO of iSeek, Scott Hicks, who talks about their service USP and we catch up with CommsDay editor Rohan Pearce to discuss the TPG results

#112 Accenture's Paolo Sidoti

Mobile World Congress returns to Barcelona from this weekend and to preview some of the major themes of the event we spoke with Paolo Sidoti, ANZ Communications, Media, Technology (CMT) client group lead of Accenture. We cover a gamut of topics including AI and network transformation.

Also we speak with Rohan Pearce about the latest telecom developments at the Quad.

#111 NBN CEO Stephen Rue & Zella DC CEO Angie Keeler

In this episode:

* we speak with NBN CO CEO Stephen Rue following 1H results, focusing on the increasing uptake of Fibre Connect and the implementation of the new Special Access Undertaking

* we also find out about Zella DC, the Perth based micro DC company, which is kicking goals in the US, with CEO Angie Keeler,

and, we speak with CommsDay's Rohan Pearce about Telstra's AI announcements this week

#110 AWS' chief telco technologist Ishwar Parulkar on AI, APIs, cloud RAN and more

This week Grahame Lynch chats with AWS chief technologist, telco Ishwar Parulkar from California on his predictions for 2024 including increased use of AI by telcos, more comfort with SaaS and APIs, and a renewed move to cloud RANs. Grahame also chats with CommsDay managing editor Rohan Pearce about the news of the week

#109 Kearney's Shivani Parekh and Sarovar Agarwal on network resilience, MEF CEO Dario Betti on his regulatory predictions for 2024

In the first episode of CommsDay Live for 2024:

We have an extended chat with Kearney partners Shivani Parekh from Chicago and Sarovar Agarwal from Melbourne from that consulting firm's telecom, media and technology practice on why network resilience is rising rapidly up the list of priorities for telco executives. And a hint: getting it right is as much about culture as technology.

CommsDay chief editor Rohan Pearce joins us to look at the new Samsung AI-enabled handsets released this week which are making quite an impression.

And finally, we are joined by London-based CEO of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, Dario Betti, who shares with us his top global regulatory predictions for 2024 including what is happening with privacy and identity.

#108 Capti’s Todd Maunder, Sat.One’s Daniel Fairbairn and shadow comms minister David Coleman

In the last episode of CommsDay Live for 2023, Grahame Lynch speaks with:

* Capti CEO Todd Maunder about what he finds compelling about the Vision Network product set which he resells
* Sat.One's Daniel Fairbairn on his company's first OneWeb enterprise signing
* Shadow communications minister David Coleman on the issues that dominated 2023 and how they will play out in 2024

#107 Amplitel CEO Jon Lipton

In this sponsored podcast, Grahame Lynch talks with Amplitel CEO Jon Lipton. Amplitel is one of the new breed of tower companies that have emerged in recent years, but we discuss how it is more than a real estate play, but a company going up the value stack in terms of what it offers to customers and developing innovative solutions in areas such as the use of digital twin technology.

#106 A deep dive on cybersecurity with Absolute Software and Rapid7 | Netskope talks borderless WAN

In this episode we hear from:

* Rapid7 global chief security officer Jaya Balloo talking about the cyber threats of AI and quantum,
* Netskope SVP, borderless WAN Parag Thakore, and
* Absolute Software CTO Nicko van Someren on the hype around AI in cybersecurity