Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

0:45 Reintroduction of Net Neutrality rules

2:45 Recent history of FCC implementing Net Neutrality

6:30 Regulations on ISPs and Operators vs Tech companies

8:15 Greater threats to free and open internet

11:20 Impact on Network Operators

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Nico Girard, CEO of OXIO

0:45 What is Oxio and how is it different?

3:05 How Oxio got started

4:30 How Oxio delivers advanced services for MobileX

8:00 How can Oxio help invigorate the MVNO market and extend telephony services across borders

12:00 How Oxio creates a custom telecom service for a ride hailing service in LATAM

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, OXIO, Telecom as a Service, Nicolas Girard, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, MVNO

Analysts Daryl Schoolar and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Alok Shah Vice President, Networks Strategy, BD, & Marketing at Samsung Electronics America.

1:25 Samsung’s approach to OpenRAN and VRAN

4:00 OpenRAN vs VRAN and how are operators choosing between the two

7:30 Samsung’s view on what constitutes OpenRAN

12:00 Outlook for In-line vs Look-aside architectures

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Daryl Schoolar, Roger Entner, Samsung America, OpenRAN, Virtual RAN

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

0:24 - Altice releases information about how much of their free mobile customers are converting to paid plans

6:00  FWA  a discussion of FWA bundling versus cable bundling

8:45 Verizon names a new CFO

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  FWA,  Cable, Altice USA, Comcast, Charter, Spectrum Xfinity, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile 5G, Fixed Wireless Access, Tony Skiadas

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

0:40 An overview of AT&T’s earnings

3:25 Roger’s article on who is winning on iPhone 15 so far

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/whos-leading-iphone-upgrade-game-entner

7:15 Verizon’s Q3 ‘23 earnings

10:37 Discussion on Verizon’s prepaid strategy & MobileX

MobileX endcap - courtesy of Jeff Moore of Wave 7 @wave7jeff

https://twitter.com/wave7jeff/status/1716861085817426203

12:35 T-Mobile earnings

16:12 Comcast and Charter earnings results

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Charter, Comcast, Spectrum, Xfinity, 5G, C-Band, mmWave, Fixed Wireless Access, earnings, net adds, postpaid phone

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Joe Russo, EVP and President of Global Networks & Technology at Verizon.

0:45 An update on the state of the Verizon network

1:40 Verizon’s network gets high grades on the Recon Analytics Pulse tool- particularly for FWA and mobility in urban areas. What is the timeline to expand C-band and mmWave to more rural and suburban areas?

3:30 What are Verizon’s plans for building out more mmWave spectrum?

4:45 What is the most surprising thing about mmWave?

8:40 Verizon’s perspective on 5G standalone core

11:00 Where are we with Mobile Edge Compute and Private Networks?

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  Joe Russo, Verizon, 5G, Mobile Edge Compute, C-Band, mmWave, Fixed Wireless Access

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

This week Roger and Don are joined by the Recon Analytics team, live from the 5G Americas analyst forum: Brett Clark, Mitch Klaassen, Jake Hawkridge and Jared Chavez. Peter Linder of Ericsson also joined the podcast to talk about what he saw at the event.

0:45 5G Americas is the premier analyst event in the Americas

4:50 Fixed Wireless Access and the Enterprise

7:20 5G use cases beyond FWA and connected smartphones

8:45 Mobile devices have changed from content consumption devices to content creation devices

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH,  FCC, 5G Americas

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with Frank Mong, COO of Nova Labs. 

0:40 What is Nova Labs trying to solve for?

4:34 Building a hybrid distributed cellular infrastructure on CRBS spectrum alongside WiFi and the T-Mobile macro network

6:50 Where are we on the adoption curve for a distributed cellular network? What problems can we solve with a distributed network?

13:56 6 months in, what are the lessons of launching a distributed cellular network?

15:50 What does provisioning on the network look like?

18:05 More on the new Helium Mobile cellular hotspot

19:55 How does the backhaul work?

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Helium Mobile, Nova Labs, CBRS, Distributed Cellular, Crypto

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

0:20 MobileX is launching in Walmart. What are the implications for the prepaid ecosystem?

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH, Tracfone, MobileX, Walmart, Prepaid

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

0:30 Dish is back in the news, this time the DoJ is backing an extension for the 800 MHz spectrum purchase from T-Mobile

3:50 AST Makes the first 5G voice call from space

6:30 Verizon provides more details around the C-Band deployment progress

12:00 Verizon's pricing strategy vis a vis the MSOs

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH,  FCC, 800 MHz , AST SpaceMobile, C-band, DoJ