Telecoms.com Podcast

Our team of talkative telecoms trouble-makers turn their sceptical gaze onto the turmoil at the top of TIM this week, where Vivendi is exercising far more control than its 24% shareholding would seem to allow. Later they wrestle with the many challenges surrounding the smart home, which in Scott’s case includes even being able to say it properly. Lastly the guys tackle the age-old question of how operators can best move with the times and ask whether they’re even capable of change.

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Jamie’s back and he, Scott and Iain from Light Reading discuss the decision to kick Uber out of London, which threatens to make going out on the piss until the small hours significantly more expensive in the capital. Meanwhile Deutsche Telekom has launched an offensive on the content market as the two worlds increasingly collide. Lastly the team have a look at Google’s latest smartphone move, which involves grabbing the cream of HTC’s engineering talent, and wonder what this means for the future of HTC.

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In the absence of Jamie, Scott becomes the filling in a Light Reading sandwich as he’s outnumbered by Ray and Iain. The three discuss long overdue big investments in fibre from the likes of Vodafone and Verizon, and why they matter. Talking about big investments they move on to the exceptional sum Apple wants for its latest shiny thing and to what extent that’s taking the piss. The gang concludes by reflecting on the necessity of the distributed cloud and how paying for it is nearly as expensive as buying an iPhone X.

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Scott and Jamie are joined by Ray from Light Reading and the team start by reflecting on the amount of moaning the impending UK 5G auctions have caused. They then ponder how little control we have over our digital live and ask whether there should be a limit on the power of the dominant digital utilities. Lastly Ray derides dirty data, which is bad, naughty and needs to be thoroughly spanked to teach it a lesson, prompting one of Scott's paranoid AI tangents.

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Scott and Jamie put the band back together with the help of Iain of Light Reading. The telecoms tyrants pick up where they left off by arguing the toss over net neutrality, Europe’s 5G progress and some new gadgetry for IFA. In classic journalistic tradition they end up debating whether any of it actually matters and completely fail to come to a unanimous conclusion on anything.

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On this weeks’ episode, Scott and Jamie discuss Huawei’s money problems, the pros and cons of own brand vs. Heinz baked beans, Jio’s latest efforts to shake things up in India, WhatsApp’s entry into mobile money and where in the world AI is going to have the biggest negative impact. Long-time listeners will also have a chance to put a voice to the name, as we drag Brad out in front of the mic for his final podcast :(

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Scott and Jamie are joined by Ray and Iain from Light Reading as the elite of global telecoms journalism apply their collective wisdom to the week’s burning issues. The gang start by dissecting Ericsson’s new cunning plan but opinion is divided on the new CEO and specifically when he’s going to get his magic wand out. They move on to the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8 by DJ Koh, feat. MC Bixby and once more the team struggle for consensus, especially on the matter of placing potentially volatile devices next to their old chap, and ponder what can be done about dirty data.

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It’s ‘just the two of us’ as Scott and Jamie go it alone on the general topic of devices. They are left bored by the lack of excitement around the delayed Samsung Galaxy S8 launch, awed by Apple’s ability to take people to the cleaners and floored by an attempt to charge ten grand for a phone. Later the lads discuss jostling in the connected car market, the Yahoo ballyhoo and the curious case of the connected sex toy.

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In the first podcast of the post-Skinner era, the team is joined by super-sub Iain Morris from Light Reading. Among the key conversation-points of the week include BT finally caving in to Ofcom’s demands for the ‘legal separation’ of Openreach – whatever that means. The guys also mull over the pros and cons of accelerating 5G NR by itself and reflect on the apparent ability of the CIA to hack our devices in order to keep an eye on us.

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The team is joined once more by the incomparable Mary Clark, who is no longer living on the edge but still has plenty to say about roaming. With talk at the recent MWC 2017 trade show dominated by 5G they try to reel in the hype and question the return on investment from all this 5G-ness we’re supposed to be getting so excited about. Later they conclude Nokia is the Sri Lankan bus driver of the telecoms industry, discuss the pros and cons of walls and Tim walks out for the very last time.

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