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Light Reading Podcasts episodes

September 24 SCTE's TechExpo will pack plenty of tech, with a bigger focus on the 'experience'
SCTE's Janelle Morse joins the podcast to preview themes at this year's TechExpo in Atlanta, including what's next for broadband and how AI is being implemented as operators put more weight into the overall customer experience.
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22 min
September 09 The Divide: How Oklahoma is meeting digital needs with Community Access Portals
This week: Mike Sanders, executive director, Oklahoma broadband office, discusses progress made toward the state's connectivity goals and a new ARPA-funded effort to roll out 175 Community Access Portals in libraries statewide.
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34 min
September 01 Unpacking 6G with Omdia's Gabriel Brown
Omdia's Gabriel Brown joined the Signal Strength podcast to discuss and dissect Qualcomm's '6G Leadership Day,' which dug into emerging use cases, potential moneymakers and anticipated product timelines.
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39 min
August 04 The Divide: Why digital inclusion needs a new funding model
This week: Connect Humanity's Samantha Schartman and Mission Telecom's Mark Colwell discuss their 'Alt Funding Field Guide,' which explores a new approach to co-investing in digital adoption initiatives focusing on six sectors.
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33 min
July 21 Policy, tech and convergence to collide at The Independent Show
NCTC's Lou Borrelli and ACA Connects' Grant Spellmeyer hop on the podcast to preview The Independent Show, set for July 26-29 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, which will dig into top policy issues and tech trends for small and midsized operators.
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51 min
July 07 The Divide: SHLB's Joey Wender on the fight to save E-Rate
This week: Joey Wender, executive director of the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB), joins to discuss the FCC's 'war on the E-Rate program' and what advocates can do to help save it.
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26 min
June 16 The Divide: NDIA's Angela Siefer on the fight to restore the Digital Equity Act
This week: NDIA's Angela Siefer returns to the podcast to discuss what's happened in the digital inclusion space since the Digital Equity Act was 'ended' by President Trump last year as well as ongoing efforts to restore funding.
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28 min
June 02 The Divide: Gigi Sohn on how to defeat opponents of public broadband
This week: Gigi Sohn discusses how 'dark money' defeated a public broadband plan in Longmeadow, Mass., why anti-muni-broadband efforts work in some towns but not others and why grassroots buy-in is key to public broadband success.
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29 min
May 08 The Divide: How permitting problems delay broadband builds
This week: Execs with Brightspeed, Ziply Fiber and CentraCom discuss the biggest problems with broadband permitting; how inconsistent timelines, requirements and costs cause deployment delays; and what reforms are most needed.
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32 min
April 21 Wireless Infrastructure Association CEO braces for the AI and 6G era
Patrick Halley, the president and CEO of the Wireless Infrastructure Association, discusses the top trends in the industry and how AI and 6G are poised to come together.
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35 min