The Week with Roger

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

1:00 Convergence is real, and it's great for customers

6:20 Fixed Wireless Access is the 5G killer app

7:00 The shift to premium wireless plans

11:35 Industry-wide churn at record lows - people are happy

13:00 Postpaid grows at the expense of prepaid

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Fixed Wireless Access, FWA, Net Promoter Score, NPS, Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Mint, MobileX

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Denny Strigl, retired president and CEO of Verizon wireless.

1:00 How to be a disruptor as a leader rather than as an insurgent

2:50 The Verizon Wireless credo

4:00 Culture is the lifeblood of an organization

5:00 Translating the credo to action

7:15 Building a deep bench with a decentralized organization

8:00 The key to dealing with failure

10:15 Competing fiercely with competitors but working together for the industry

12:15 Making big changes for the benefit of the customer

16:45 How does the organization execute on the vision of the leader

17:45 John Legere’s leadership at T-Mobile

18:30 How to make mergers work

22:30 Recommendations for young leaders

24:45 The shadow of the leader

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, Recon Analytics, Roger Entner, Don Kellogg, Denny Strigl, Verizon Wireless, Leadership, CTIA, Bell Atlantic, Nynex, competition

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

0:30 Roger recently presented at the New Street Research / BCG Future series conference- what the Recon Analytics data says about Net Promoter Score

4:30 What the industry has learned with FWA

7:00 The relationship between ARPU and NPS

14:00 Verizon FWA has separated from the rest of the industry in the last several months

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Fixed Wireless Access, FWA, Net Promoter Score, NPS, Verizon, T-Mobile

Analysts Roger Entner, Daryl Schoolar and Brett Clark discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Bejoy Pankajakshan, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Mavenir.

1:00 Key themes and takeaways from the 2023 Mavenir industry analyst day

5:45 Where AI ties in for OpenRAN 

7:30 The scope of Mavenir’s offerings within the CSP ecosystem

12:45 Looking at the year ahead for OpenRAN and Mavenir

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, OpenRAN, Mavenir, Artificial Intelligence, Packet Core, Virtualized RAN, Cloud Native, Recon Analytics, Roger Entner, Daryl Schoolar, DISH, Telefonica, 5G, 6G

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

0:30 The Whitehouse announces new spectrum policy, but where is the beef?

5:00 The economic benefits of licensed and unlicensed spectrum

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, cellular phone, wireless spectrum, FCC, whitehouse, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, MVNO

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