Natasha Tamaskar, head of global marketing and sales enablement at Radisys,

explains how open telecom is built into the company's DNA and how an open telecom ecosystem represents a new and different model, which brings a number of challenges and opportunities for carriers, vendors and customers.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of 'Private Wireless', a monthly podcast series where we explore the various aspects of private cellular. For the next few episodes, we’ll be speaking with Stephane Daeuble, head of marketing for Nokia's enterprise solutions division. In this episode, we discuss how to assess and calculate the cost of critical wireless connectivity options, which introduces Nokia's Private Wireless TCO calculator.

Kelly Richards, senior vice president of sales at Raycap, talks the importance of future proofing our networks and of incorporating sustainable products into network architecture. We also discuss how mysteriously short the women's restroom lines at telecom trade shows tend to be.

On this week's episode, Suruchi Gupta, Samsung's senior professional of sales and head of 5G collaboration, discusses the company's commitment to helping create an open telecom ecosystem that supports multi-vendor interoperability.

T-Mobile's John Saw, executive vice president of advanced and emerging technologies, discusses the operator's latest 5G milestones; how T-Mo is investing in innovation via its T-Mobile Accelerator and the 5G Open Innovation Lab; and how the work of Viktor Frankl informs his own search for meaning.

On this week's episode, Verizon Chief Customer Officer Aparna Khurjekar explores what being a leader in the communications industry has been like during COVID-19 and more specifically, how Verizon has approached delivering a more digital customer experience.

On this week's episode of Well, technically... CommScope's Director of Product Line Management for Metro Cell Solutions Iris Troiano and CommScope's MetroCell Sales Manager Kat Folger have a conversation about how proper concealment solutions facilitate small cell adoption and scalability.

On this week's episode of Well, technically... CommScope's Director of Product Line Management for Metro Cell Solutions Iris Troiano and CommScope's MetroCell Sales Manager Kat Folger have a conversation about how proper concealment solutions facilitate small cell adoption and scalability.

This week we talk to Tareq Amin, Rakuten Mobile CTO and Group EVP and CAO of Rakuten, about his vision for (and reality of) a fully-virtualized, cloud-native network. Amin reflects on his time at Reliance Jio, discusses the future of Open RAN, and shares his motto--which doesn't easily translate to Japanese.

On this week’s episode, Julie Purves, CEO and founder of B2M Solutions, discusses mobile analytics in the time of COVID-19, the growing role that mobile devices play the workplace, and explores the question: Are failing devices making your employees sick? She also shares some insights she’s gained from Maya Angelou.