This week's edition takes a step back from the latest news and looks at the two year horizon with technologist Kevin Bloch. What are the trends impacting telcos in areas such as edge, the metaverse, automation and hyperscale.

This week we have an extended chat with Telstra's GE networks and IT Nikos Katinikas on the view from MWC Barcelona and where mobile networks are heading.

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In this episode, we hear from NBN Co at Senate Estimates talking about the meteorite hit on its satellite and the status of its fibre upgrade plans as well as Telstra's 1H analyst call where it talked about conditions in a COVID-influenced market and what satellite might do to stem its costs in universal service areas.

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This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of Optus gaining the second telecom carrier license and the introduction of competition. We speak with the founding CEO of Optus, Bob Mansfield about those early days and times subsequent heading the boards at Telstra and Vocus. 

In our last episode of the year we talk with Nokia's chief customer experience officer, Ricky Corker, an Aussie expat in North California who talks about how he sees the state of telecoms as we head into 2022.

Weeks ahead of his departure from NBN after eight years as chair, Grahame Lynch conducts an extensive interview with Dr Ziggy Switkowski about his record at the national operator and what lies ahead.

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