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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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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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21 August 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 31: Lebara - MVNO M&A, AI governance, and wireless power

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

  1. Lebara, a canary in coal mine for PE incursion into MVNO sector
  2. AI governance still in its Wild West era
  3. Wireless power has missed the mark, but is a launchpad imminent?

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19 August 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Eugina Jordan, Telecom Infra Project (TIP)

Join Alex Davies as he chats to Eugina Jordan, CMO at the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) – an industry organization advancing both wireless and wired infrastructure.

This conversation spans organizational challenges, Open RAN, WiFi, and dips into the question of how AI will affect future workloads – both in the network, as well as your own personal tasks.

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14 August 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 30: Backhaul – the unsung hero, Intel’s much-needed overhaul, a tour of the TXO warehouse

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

  1. Mobile backhaul grows as satellite comes into equation
  2. Intel lays out overhaul plans, lays off 15%, raising telco viability questions
  3. TXO and the mucky business of the circular RAN economy

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