Light Reading Podcasts

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This feed is Light Reading's main podcast feed for "The Light Reading Podcast," "The Divide," "The Light Reading Extra," and "What's the Story?"

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Light Reading Podcasts episodes:

February 04, 2025 The Divide: How the end of Affordable Connectivity Program is hurting low-income Americans
Danielle Perry, board member at the National Lifeline Association (NaLA), joins the podcast to discuss the results of NaLA's consumer survey showing the significant consequences felt by low-income Americans since the ACP ended.

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21min
January 28, 2025 How and why telcos are spinning gold out of copper
Copper network retirement and transition initiatives are 'definitely picking up,' says TXO's Dave Evans. TXO, which aids such projects, believes this represents a $7 billion opportunity to telcos based on current copper prices.
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28min
January 22, 2025 The Divide: NDIA's Angela Siefer on the importance of digital equity funding
This week: Angela Siefer, executive director, National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), joins the podcast to discuss the group's plans to use federal grant funding to support digital navigator programs and more.
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23min
January 21, 2025 What's the Story? Unclear ROI for D2D satellite messaging
Many direct-to-device messaging services remain in the development stage, and the market for D2D messaging is small. That makes the ROI for these services hazy.
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27min
January 17, 2025 Evolution Digital breaks out a new broadband ARPU booster
Evolution Digital CEO Chris Egan on why his company's investment in Ubiety could clear a new way for Evolution's broadband partners to differentiate and generate more value from their services.
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18min
January 15, 2025 Xumo's Marcien Jenckes talks TV shipments, 'deep interest' in operator-distributed TVs
At CES, Light Reading chatted with Xumo President Marcien Jenckes about the performance of Xumo's smart TV business, plans for retail and market expansion, and the company's 'deep interest' in exploring the operator distribution model for Xumo TVs.

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20min
January 14, 2025 CES 2025: The shifting smart TV sector, MobileX's sales tilt and robot risings
On the Light Reading Extra podcast, Phil Harvey and Jeff Baumgartner discuss Jeff's CES travels, some smart TV updates, MobileX's apparel play and the rise of the robots.
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27min
January 07, 2025 CES 2025: AI everywhere, 'NextG' and the specter of more tariffs
Brian Comiskey, senior director and futurist at the Consumer Technology Association, discusses the top tech themes expected at CES 2025 and offers some thoughts about how a new wave of tariffs might impact the CE industry.
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23min
December 18, 2024 How Downdetector tracks network outages during natural disasters
Ookla CSO Chip Strange joins the podcast to provide a postmortem analysis of the impact of hurricanes Helene and Milton on the East Coast networks. Strange explains how Ookla's Downdetector site keeps the market informed of both telecommunications and power outages, and how the site analyzes different types of service disruptions.

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32min
December 18, 2024 SoftBank's plans for AI-RAN expansion
In Telecom East this week, Light Reading contributing editor Robert Clark and Ross O'Brien, analyst-in-chief at Delta Analysis, discuss Huawei’s Android exit, China’s ambitious 10G program and the slowing growth of mobile worldwide. Then, they talk to Ryuji Wakikawa, vice president and head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology at SoftBank Corp, about the Japanese telco’s pioneering AI-RAN plans.

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38min

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How many episodes does Light Reading Podcasts have?

The podcast currently has 931 episodes available.

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