In this episode, Dean Brenner and Alice Tornquist of Qualcomm Technologies Inc., come back to provide an update on how U.S. policymakers are working to address the digital divide through a potential adjustment to the E-Rate program that would expand the use of federal funds to subsidize access to broadband and devices for students engaged in remote learning.

Blair Crawford, vice president of National Accounts & Marketing at Vertical Bridge, discusses the company's recent deal with Dish and shares her perspective on what's in store for 2021 as we wait to see the impact from the highly popular C Band auction.

Cathy Borten is a legal associate at Miller, Miller & Canby in Rockville Maryland where her work in real estate transactions and leasing has revealed to her the policy and zoning challenges that telecom providers are up against as they seek to install 5G network infrastructure.

Industry analyst Jim Patterson recaps quarterly earnings from U.S. Tier 1 operators, explores opportunities for operators and cloud providers to sell 5G to enterprises, and predicts the score of the Super Bowl.

On this week's episode, Asha Keddy, Corporate VP at Intel, takes a closer look at the friendly, but fierce, competition between 5G and Wi-Fi both in the enterprise and at home, as well as what is in store for the telecom and wireless industries as they await 3GPP Release 17 and broader adoption of Wi-Fi 6E.

The Co-Founder and CEO of Libelium Alicia Pérez comes on the show to defend her claim that 5G isn't the solution to all of our network and economic woes and to explain how market hyper fragmentation is stunting IoT growth.

Mavenir Chief Strategy Officer Bejoy Pankajakshan reviews the companies latest cloud-focused telecom portfolio expansion, updates on the integration of ip.access, and looks to the future of Open RAN.

This week, Well, technically... caught up with Verizon's SVP of Sales and Operations Krista Bourne for an update on how the carrier and its employees are faring in the continued work from home environment. We also discuss consumer excitement and confusion are around 5G. I even picked up some solid career advice along the way.

IBM's Marisa Viveros, vice president of strategy and offerings for telecom, media and entertainment, discusses the combination of 5G, network automation and mobile edge computing, and gives some insight into increasingly complex enterprise 5G consumption models

Carolyn Hardwick, the president of engineering at SQUAN, comes on the show to explain some of the latest progress and challenges she's experienced in wireless and fiber engineering in telecommunications. She also discusses the importance of female leadership and her role as the President of The Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.