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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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4 July 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 24: Mid-band vs mmWave for customer satisfaction, Ericsson claims big power and efficiency gains with new designs, Juniper's Neil McRae talks AI hype

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

  1. Mid-band makes customers happy but mmWave even better
  2. Ericsson sings energy praises, as 5G passes 1.58 billion subscriptions
  3. Juniper’s Chief Network Strategist discusses Mist AI hype

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27 June 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 23: CBRS 2.0 enters the thunderdome, India's regulator meets post-election fallout, and the Germans are coming ... to upturn the patent landscape

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

  1. CBRS gets closer to best of both worlds with second release
  2. Indian government enacts contentious telecoms legislation
  3. Germans rock the patent boat with first united campaign

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21 June 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Paul Hendriks, Gamgee

Join Alex Davies as he chats to Paul Hendriks, CEO of Gamgee, a provider of WiFi management and sensing software, targeted at operators.

With convergence on the horizon, and the overlap between wired and wireless operator models collapsing, consumers are going to have markedly different relationships with their wireless networks in the near future.

So, how do these operators view the opportunity of additional WiFi-based capabilities and revenue? Tune in to find out.

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19 June 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 22: Thales sees iSIM on backburner, DT has high hopes for wholesale, Apple AI very risk-averse

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

  1. Thales flags eSIM progress while downplaying iSIMs, for now
  2. “Not a revolution… yet” – DT’s wholesale division to sell APIs
  3. Apple Intelligence debuts in very risk-averse fashion

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14 June 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Emir Aboulhosn, NetLync

Join Alex Davies as he chats to Emir Aboulhosn, CEO of NetLync – a startup that provides Entitlements-as-a-Service.

This is a section of the operator-smartphone stack that gets little coverage, but which ties into the larger trend of cloudification and the squeeze on operator spending.

With heaps more devices coming online, and a boom in MVNO debuts, the eSIM and entitlements overlap is a strong opportunity for the likes of NetLync – as part of the broader upheaval in the operator workflows, brought about by the cloud.

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12 June 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 21: Groans at the Rakuten presser, HAPS lifted by renewed interest, Qualcomm hopes for bright PC future

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

  1. Japanese consortium give HAPS a commercial boost
  2. Qualcomm rides AI wave into PCs, promises wins in smartphones

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5 June 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 20: Rohde & Schwarz event, 5G in primary healthcare, and TXO's circular economy findings

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

  1. Rohde & Schwarz bemoans 5G split and stresses security issues
  2. 5G ready for bigger impact in primary healthcare
  3. TXO gets evangelical about decommissioning opportunity

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29 May 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 19: 6G Summit gets cold water dunking, Elisa explores 5G SA janitors, EU backs Lettas's single market overhaul

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

  1. BT, ComReg pour cold water on 6G at London summit
  2. Elisa extends 5G SA to include ‘Super Janitor’ use cases
  3. EU backs Letta competition report, kicks next deadline into 2025

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24 May 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Tiago Rodrigues, Wireless Broadband Alliance

Join Alex Davies as he chats to Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) – an industry organization that promotes technologies that enable WiFi collaboration convergence with cellular.

The conversation spans the journery from standalone networks to collaborative ones, and given the needs for cellular densification, WiFi plays a very important role in network offload. So, tune in to learn the challenges at play, and the future roadmap.

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22 May 2024

The Wireless Watch Podcast - Episode 18: 5G Broadcast and compression speculation, BT finally proves shortsellers wrong, Nvidia underwhelms with energy metric

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

  1. 5G teams up with ML to deliver rich content, 5G Broadcast Collective emerges
  2. BT strategy finally wins over investors
  3. Nvidia calls for new energy metrics, but nothing up empty sleeves

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