CommsDay Live

#99 TPG Telecom CEO Inaki Berroeta on his annual results

TPG Telecom returned a good set of numbers this week in an indication that it has turned the corner and now has positive momentum in the years ahead. Grahame Lynch spoke with Inaki Berroeta.

A conversation with Mansour Karam of Juniper Networks’ Apstra

 

In this special sponsored edition of CommsDay Live, Grahame Lynch talks with Mansour Karam, the co-founder of Apstra, now a unit of Juniper Networks.

In this podcast, they discuss the origin story of Apstra, how Karam saw a shared vision between Apstra and Juniper, what was the original problem that Apstra sought to solve, the idea behind intent-based networking and how Apstra performs in blind end-user studies. They conclude by discussing what lies in the future for Apstra.

#97 Dr Vijay Sivaraman of Canopus and new Vocus CEO Ellie Sweeney

This week we take a look at a new academic paper which finds fault with national broadband measurement programs and suggests alternative ways to get more meaningful data on broadband experiences with co-author Dr Vijay Sivaraman. We also hear from the new CEO of Vocus, Ellie Sweeney, who replaces the retiring Kevin Russell in a few weeks.

#96 Catching up with the summer news with CommsDay’s Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux

CommsDay Live, the podcast, is back for 2023. In this episode, host Grahame Lynch catches up with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce to discuss all the top news that happened over the January holidays.

#95 Vocus’ Andrew Wildblood, Amdocs’ Zoltan Losteiner & Telco Together’s Renee Bowker

In our last episode for calendar year 2022, we chat with:

0.00 Vocus chief executive, enterprise and government Andrew Wildblood about what his company in doing in leosats, private LTE and fibre deployments in the north of Australia

11.45 Amdocs VP, Customer Business Executive for the ANZ region Zoltan Losteiner and hear what he has to say about trends in enterprise communications and network automation, and

24.15 Telco Together founder Renee Bowker on their tenth anniversary, highlights and plans from here on.

It's a big final episode for the year!

#94 Indara’s Jason Horley and Matt Healy

In this episode we hear from Indara's Jason Horley and Matt Healy on their plan for a regional mobile network in uneconomic markets that could support the needs of all three cellcos and more, as per the NZ RCG model. Our editors Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux look at a series of related announcements and views from Amplitel, the NT government and NSW Gig State.

#93 Amplitel CEO Jon Lipton

In this episode we hear from Amplitel CEO Jon Lipton and chat with CommsDay editors Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce about the week that was

#92 The CommsDay Wholesale Forum Industry Panel

CommsDay held its Wholesale Forum this week in Sydney: Directions for Australian telecom wholesale with panellists Zia Bhadiar partner, Oliver Wyman, Venture Insights MD David Kennedy, Vocus GM - Wholesale national sales Tristan Clash, Symbio GM Products Dylan Brown, Superloop chief commercial officer Nick Pachos and Swoop CTO Tom Berryman. This panel looks at the big trends in Australian wholesale markets: NBN resale, dark fibre and private access networks, 5G, leosat and more

The moderator is James Linton, formerly of Exetel

#91 Swoop’s Sean Clarke on its wholesale play | Vocus’ Luke Coleman on universal service reform

This week, we speak with:

* Executive editor Rohan Pearce about the government's post budget regional comms roadshow
* Swoop's chief revenue officer Sean Clarke joins us to talk about his company and its wholesale strategy, and
* Vocus dir, government relations Luke Coleman on the problems with overlapping and expensive universal service subsidies and how LEOsats may come to the rescue

#90 The Federal Budget, Aussie Broadband and Ciena

This week, Grahame Lynch and Simon Dux discuss the impact on the telecom sector of the federal budget.

We also chat with Dominic Morrow and Michelle Peter from Aussie Broadband about what their company is doing in the wholesale space, while we also catch up with newly appointed head of Ciena in ANZ, Ivan Polizzi.