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The Wireless Watch Podcast complements the Wireless Watch weekly strategy bulletin, as we dive deeper into the dynamic factors of the wireless market. We discuss the week’s key issues, while providing insight into our own research and forecasts to give clearer direction of where momentum is building through the industry. From 5G deployments, to Open RAN and the road to 6G, we’ll be keeping track of all the important developments in the global wireless communications market. Guests welcome for future episodes. Write to [email protected] for details.

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18 October 2024

Wireless Watch Weekly Wrap - Episode 1

Join Alex Davies for a blitz through the latest edition of Wireless Watch, our venerable industry newsletter that provides analysis of the most important events in the cellular industry. For more in-depth article discussions, subscribe to the Wireless Watch Podcast, and be sure to check out RAN Research for market forecasts, as well as as our free webinars.

17 October 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 37: Network X draws crowds in Paris, we review Meta’s multi-billion dollar bet on smartglasses, semiconductor scare averted in the US

Join Elly, Phil, and Alex as they discuss the latest happenings in the cellular and wireless industry – as covered in Wireless Watch.

1.  ⁠Big names lured to Paris by Network X while MWC fries in Las Vegas
2. ⁠Orion teases future beyond mobile duopoly, Meta in $63bn hole
3. ⁠Semiconductor scare avoided by Covid pandemic lessons⁠

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10 October 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - MTN & Tecnotree, Mazen Mroue & Padma Ravichander

Join Alex Davies for the first dual-guest Wireless Watch podcast – where pan-African MNO MTN and software platform vendor Tecnotree explain how ‘centers of excellence’ can be used to advance MNO operations.

For MTN, the CoE is a special unit that attracts talents and resources from different entities, including the vendors, which then enables MTN to experiment how best to deploy a new technology or trend.

So, what’s the relationship like between vendor and operator in this dynamic? Tune in to find out.

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9 October 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 36: AT&T pits 6G against Open RAN, ‘event-based processing’ with BrainChip, Bloxtel the private network startup, WiFi shenanigans

Join Elly and Alex as they discuss the latest happenings in the cellular and wireless industry – as covered in Wireless Watch.

  1. AT&T pits Open RAN against 6G
  2. BrainChip IP core approach targets massive low-power opportunity
  3. Bloxtel and the 6G network-in-a-box utopia
  4. WiFi 7 wins, Nokia announces prpl LCM launch
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3 October 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 35: Is Ericsson et al right about the EU’s AI Act? Why we are sick of hearing about Nvidia and AI, SpaceX is bullying the FCC

Join Elly, Phil and Alex as they discuss the latest happenings in the cellular and wireless industry – as covered in Wireless Watch.

  1. Ericsson condemns EU AI Act as anti-competitive, it might be right
  2. Nvidia cozies up to T-Mobile, as AI enthusiasm falters
  3. SpaceX bullies the FCC to get its own way for LEO satellites
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25 September 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 34: What's next for Intel, wireless charging and asset tracking for MNOs, VR headsets for football fans with sight loss

Join Elly, Phil, and Alex as they reunite to discuss the latest happenings in the cellular and wireless industry.

1.    Intel struggles to manage foundry transition but gains US backing

2.    Energous on cusp, as MNOs evaluate RAN-delivered wireless power

3.    VR headsets in stadiums provide hope for more UK private 5G

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19 September 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 33: Ericsson’s latest network API venture, China’s LEO satellite plans, review of the Connected Britain event

Join Elly, Phil, and Alex as they reunite to discuss the latest happenings in the cellular and wireless industry.

1.     Network API ambitions flail, land on Ericsson JV as the answer

2.     China preps for LEO mega constellations and direct to device services

3.     Connected Britain: a playdate for the UK telco community

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12 September 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 32: Post-Olympic 5G Broadcast, EU technocrats, Samsung-Nokia rumor-mill, and resurgent operator share prices!

Join Alex and Phil, as they delve into the first edition after the summer break, awaiting Elly’s return from Connected Britain.

  1. Europe seeks to build on Olympics momentum for 5G Broadcast
  2. Another EU technocrat calls for telco consolidation
  3. European ambitions draw Samsung to Nokia mobile takeover – FREE TO READ
  4. Stock Tracker & Financials – Operators twist the knife, as Vendors fall back to earth

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9 September 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Kush Parikh, Hiya

Join Alex Davies for a slightly different format – a rip from an interview done for Wireless Watch, to tide you over while Wireless Watch takes its summer break!

Hiya publishes some reports that make for great reading, outlining the size of the spam and fraud market, and this conversation was kicked off by UK regulator Ofcom’s new requirements.

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28 August 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Liz Parry, Lifecycle Software

Join Alex Davies as he talks to Liz Parry, CEO of Lifecycle Software – a company that provides an ‘MVNE’ service that lets anybody create an MVNO.

In a market where tension is building between the MNO and the MVNOs, there are great swathes of data that could help shine a light on the problems and opportunities. Lifecycle can help firms with that problem, but as you’ll hear, nothing is simple when dealing with the MNOs and their wholesale departments.

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