The Week with Roger

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

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

0:35 T-Mobile is going to buy Comcast's 600 MHz spectrum

3:30 Will we see a return of the spectrum screen?

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH, FCC, Spectrum Screen, 600 Mhz Auction

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

0:50 Overview of Ericsson’s enterprise telecom analyst event

4:50 What role should network providers play in mobile APIs?

10:00 Congress approves Anna Gomez as FCC commissioner

12:05 Don and Roger disagree about the limits of net neutrality

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH, Fixed Wireless, FCC, Net Neutrality, Anna Gomez

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

0:30 T-Mobile and Dish are having trouble coming to an agreement about Dish buying 14 MHz of T-Mobile's 800 MHz spectrum

7:00 Verizon announces new Fixed Wireless Access plans

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH, Fixed Wireless, FWA, 800 MHz, FCC, ARPU

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest John Dwyer, President of Prepaid and Cricket Wireless at AT&T.

0:48:  John shares a “State of the Union” in prepaid and specifically for Cricket.

3:10:  How have customer expectations changed today versus before the pandemic?

4:33:  AT&T has an exciting new announcement - what is going on and what are the details?

7:23:  Predictions about how the distribution model will shift moving forward.

9:34:  The disconnect between digitizing digital phone service and customers.

11:26:  What people need to know about Cricket.

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, John Dwyer, AT&T, Cricket, JD Power, ACSI, Verizon, Tracfone, Mint, prepaid, pandemic, tax refund, tax season,

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

0:26:  Verizon just released news about their C-Band deployment - what is their news and how it affects the rest of the industry.

1:44:  How Verizon compares to T-Mobile currently.

3:41:  What are the real-world uses for mid-band spectrum right now?

4:49:  How AT&T and the other companies will be changing.

6:26:  The financial side of FWA.

9:03:  The wildcard of Augmented Reality.

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, C-Band, Verizon, T-Mobile, FWA, fixed wireless access, urban, AT&T, US Cellular, augmented reality, AR,