CommsDay Live

In this week's podcast, Grahame Lynch discusses the latest TPG Telecom results with CEO Inaki Berroeta and does a deep dive into the future of the NBN Co with Symbio CEO Rene Sugo

Both Telstra and NBN Co released their financial results this week. We hear from Michael Ackland, Brendon Riley and Andy Penn of Telstra about fixed wireless, national fibre trunk and network sharing topics while we also have an extended chat with NBN CEO Stephen Rue about his results.

In this special edition of Commsday Live, we chat with Julian Todd, the great great grandson of Sir Charles Todd, who pioneered the overland telegraph cable from Adelaide to Darwin which connected the Australian colonies to the world for the first time. This month sees the 150th anniversary of this massive 19th century engineering feat.

In this episode, CommsDay's Grahame Lynch and Rohan Pearce cogitate over minister Michelle Rowland's decision this week to ask the NBN, ACCC and RSPs to try again and come up with a mutually agreeable Special Access Undertaking.

In this week's CommsDay Live, the editors team of Grahame Lynch, Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux look at NBN, Starlink, ACMA's new spectrum auction, Victrak and More Telecom.

This week CommsDay editors Grahame Lynch, Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce discuss:
* TPG's response to Optus' criticisms of the Telstra network sharing pact
* NBN Co's HFC triumph
* Cellular industry embraces satellite delivery of 5G
* Whats happening at Circles.Life
* and much much more

In this special edition of CommsDay Live, we bring you Gladys Berejiklian's first interview with media since she stepped down as NSW Premier to join Optus as managing director of enterprise, business and institutional. In this interview, she talks about why she chose to work in telecoms - and specifically Optus - for her post-political career, how she sees tough economic times impacting telecom spend and what she thinks about the proposed Telstra-TPG network sharing pact. 

In this podcast we take a deep dive at TPG's investor day this week and listen to excerpts of what CEO Inaki Berroeta and consumer head Kieren Cooney had to say about the telco's trajectory as they consolidate following their merger with Vodafone. And then later on in the show (15:00) we hear more from Cooney on the Telstra regional network tie-up and a fulsome response from Optus' VP regulatory and public affairs Andrew Sheridan who contends the deal will be bad for competition. 

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.

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