Episodes

Thursday Jun 16, 2022
#74 The bright future for the space internet
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
This week we take a look at what happened at the Australasia Satellite Forum and from Australia's first astronaut Paul Scully-Power on what is about to happen in what he terms Space 2.0 and the Space Internet. It's a bold vision he paints. We also discuss other highlights of the event with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce.

Friday Jun 10, 2022
#73 Free NBN from CBA & new builds from Marchnet and NextHop
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Grahame Lynch talks about the news of the week with Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux including free NBN from the CBA for some loan customers, new builds from Marchnet and Nexthop, and the latest in Victorian government telco funding

Friday Jun 03, 2022
#72 Telstra raises mobile prices, opposition to Telstra-TPG mobile pact
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
In this episode, Grahame Lynch talks with Simon Dux about CPI-linked price rises in mobile and the creation of a new no 3 telco in New Zealand, as well as Rohan Pearce about opposition to the Telstra-TPG network sharing pact and a new role for the NSW Telco Authority

Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
In this episode of CommsDay Live we hear from Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin and CFO Michael Venter on their annual results, talk about the NBN SAU and Quad telecom developments with Rohan Pearce and China's latest foray into Pacific telecoms with Simon Dux

Friday May 20, 2022
#70 Oliver Wyman’s Steven Hall on its new global telco consumer survey
Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
In this episode, we speak with Oliver Wyman partner Steven Hall about a new global telco consumer survey that has some interesting and perhaps contrarian findings about Australian consumers. We also discuss new sub cables and ground-to-air broadband networks with our editors Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce

Friday May 13, 2022
#69 Comms minister Paul Fletcher and shadow comms minister Michelle Rowland
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
It's the last week of the federal election campaign and this week we hear what comms minister Paul Fletcher and shadow comms minister Michelle Rowland had to say at CommsDay Summit last week. We also chat with Rohan Pearce about the latest regional comms grants and a rather extraordinary state government gift to solar eclipse watchers in Western Australia.

Friday May 06, 2022
#68 CommsDay Summit special: what Vocus, Optus, Symbio, IAA and TPG said
Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
In this week's podcast, Grahame Lynch recaps what the telcos said at CommsDay Summit this week about policy and regulation. With an election brewing there are concerns about investment disincentives and excessive regulation. We hear from Vocus CEO Kevin Russell, Symbio CEO Rene Sugo, Optus' Andrew Sheridan, IAA CEO Narelle Clark and TPG CEO Inaki Berroeta.

Friday Apr 08, 2022
#67 NEC’s Patrick Lopez talks Open RAN
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
In this episode we have an extended chat with NEC VP Patrick Lopez from Canada about Open RAN as well as the week that was in Australian telecom news with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce including Labor's new regional comms policy.


Friday Apr 01, 2022
#66 Incoming Telstra CEO Vicki Brady and auDA CEO Rosemary Sinclair
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
This week we have two feature interviews.
We catch up with Telstra's next CEO Vicki Brady who was announced as the successor to Andy Penn when he steps down later this year.
And we find out all about the new auDA domain range "direct AU" from CEO Rosemary Sinclair

Friday Mar 25, 2022
#65 The debate around the NBN SAU + NBN’s new fixed wireless upgrade
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
In this week's podcast:
We revisit last week's CommsDay Melbourne Congress and the discussions on the impending process to update NBN Co's special access undertaking which governs its wholesale terms and conditions. We hear from ACCC commissioner Anna Brakey, NBN head of strategy and transformation Will Irving and Aussie Broadband MD Phil Britt.
And NBN Co's Gavin Williams takes us through the technology behind the $750 million fixed wireless upgrade announced this week


