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LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey to discuss LoRaWAN’s ten-year journey and its role in powering massive IoT. They also examine why leading operators are investing in LoRaWAN alongside 5G, and where the technology shines.

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SCTE's Maria Popo and Janelle Morse join the podcast to talk themes and topics that will dominate TechExpo 2025 in Washington, DC. Atlanta will host TechExpo 2026, then the show will be in Denver for the foreseeable future.

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Amid GFiber's ongoing network expansions, the company's COO, Rocco Laurenzano, digs into the company's approach to prioritizing projects and allocating resources. 'The real killer of productivity are half-done projects,' he says.

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New Street Research policy analyst Blair Levin joins the podcast to discuss the outcome of BEAD's 'benefit of the bargain' bidding and how federal policy changes may exacerbate the digital divide despite increasing access.

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In this podcast, Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin explains why many communications service providers (CSPs) believe AI will increase connectivity demand at a greater rate in their long-haul networks and why they expect wavelength services to be the dominant transport service for AI connectivity.

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Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to discuss AT&T's decision to scoop up a swath of EchoStar's low- and mid-band spectrum for $23 billion, what this means for the broader telecom industry and what to expect next.

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• Why Ciena acquired Blue Planet (01:37)
• How Blue Planet's strategy has evolved from addressing service provider requirements for network management (04:17)
• How Blue Planet is applying agentic AI technologies to OSS (14:53)

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• Some background on Zappi and how it provides brands like PepsiCo, McDonald's and Heineken with consumer data and insights to help fuel their advertising (01:00)
• A review of the celebrity MVNO sector and some other product areas endorsed or owned by celebrities (3:30)
• Celebrity-focused ads are distinctive, but they don't necessarily provide a near-term sales bump (7:45)
• How and why the effectiveness of celebrity advertising varies by age group (21:40)
• Brand recall also differs among age groups (27:30)
• How Trump Mobile and its golden T1 phone might resonate in the market (30:00)
• Other ways celebrity MVNOs may try to stand out in the market (35:40)

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