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CommsDay Live
by Grahame Lynch
Communications Day's Grahame Lynch keeps telco executives in ANZ up-to-date with essential business intelligence, featuring interviews with C-level executives & government ministers in this weekly podcast. Find show notes at: https://commsday.podbean.com/
Episodes
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#135 Telstra Digital Infrastructure CEO Steven Worrall
In this episode, Telstra Digital Infrastructure CEO Steven Worrall talks about the launch of the Sydney-Perth route on its national Aura fibre network, its longest yet. We talk about the use case for terabit fibre in WA, the challenges in building it, and where Worrall sees the state of the...
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#134 Aussie Broadband Group CTO Brad Parker
In this episode we have a chat with the group CTO of Aussie Broadband, Brad Parker, about the company's Nitrogen wholesale platform which is facilitating the onboarding of hundreds of thousands of customers from new wholesale client More/Tangerine Telecom and acquisition AGL Telco. He explains…
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#133 FibreconX CEO Mark Rafferty
In this episode, Grahame Lynch talks with a telco at the centre of the AI revolution: Mark Rafferty of FibreconX which connects hyperscale and cloud DCs in Sydney and Melbourne with major business customers.
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-#132 Corning ANZ MD Bill Wallace | Shadow comms minister Senator Sarah Henderson | Senderz.ai founder Dan Rosen
In this jumbo edition of CommsDay Live, Grahame Lynch talks with Corning's local head Bill Wallace about how fibre is being deployed in AI infrastructure. Then at 15:30, Grahame talks with Senator Sarah Henderson about the Opposition view of what's happening in comms policy, And from 27.00,...
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#131 Australian Telecommunications Alliance CEO Luke Coleman
Ahead of the CommsDay Summit's Restoring Telecom Reputation session held with the Australian Telecommunications Alliance, we talk with its CEO, Luke Coleman, about how telco can repair its lustre.
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#130 BAI Communications' Stephen Farrugia
In this podcast, Grahame Lynch talks with BAI Communications' Stephen Farrugia about its proposal for reforms in the 600MHz band that could sure up public safety connectivity, as well as the firm's recent acquisition of Titan ICT and its success overseas.
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#129 Kearney's Alex Liu and Sarovar Agarwal
In this episode, we interview visiting Kearney chairman emeritus Alex Liu and managing partner, ANZ Sarovar Agarwal talking AI in the telco, takeouts in MWC and a 10 mile-high look at where the global telecom industry sits right now. It's a fantastic trip through current thinking in the global...
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#128: 40 Years of .au with Dr Bruce Tonkin
Grahame Lynch interviews Dr Bruce Tonkin, CEO of AUDA, about the 40-year history and evolution of the .au domain. They discuss AUDA's unique multi-stakeholder rules, the role of ICANN, the DNS infrastructure, critical infrastructure protections, and how domain names will shape digital identity…
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#127 Corning's Brian Rhoney on AI, optical connectivity and the DC
Brian Rhoney, Director of Data Center Market Development at Corning Optical, explains how optical fibre and new interconnects are critical to scaling AI clusters, shifting data center traffic, and solving the memory and bandwidth challenges posed by modern GPUs. The episode also covers supply and...
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#126 Belinda Dennett of Data Centres Australia
Australia's data centre industry finally has a peak body to represent its interests to governments and the community. We speak with Belinda Dennett, the head of Data Centres Australia, about the new group's plans and why Australia has an opportunity to become a significant player in the AI...
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#125 NBN Co's Accelerate Great explained, with Bec Heap, Brendan Donohoe
In this special podcast, NBN Co execs Bec Heap and Brendan Donohoe take CommsDay's Grahame Lynch through the new Accelerate Great initiative, which sees speeds increase on existing plans, new plans and a push to improve the in-home experience. This is the most extensive interview yet on NBN's plans.
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#124 CommsDay Summit panel: Building Australia's digital infrastructure
From CommsDay Summit 18 June. Chaired by Steve Cannane and featuring Brookfield global data centres CEO Udhay Mathialagan | FibreconX CEO Mark Rafferty | Equinix Australia MD Guy Danskine | NextDC chief operating officer Simon Cooper.
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#123 CommsDay Summit: State of the telecom industry panel
Hear the full panel discussion from this week's CommsDay Summit, moderated by Steve Cannane, featuring: Comms Alliance CEO Luke Coleman | Telsoc president Michelle Lim | Telecommunications Carriers Forum NZ CEO Paul Brislen | regulatory expert Andrew Sheridan | NSW Dep’t of Primary Industries &…
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#122 Telstra's new Connected Future plan | Corning's Kevin Hussey talks data centres
In this episode we look at Telstra's new Connected Future 30 program and how it is attempting to even change the lexicon around how the telco describes itself and we do a deep dive into the world of fibre connectivity and data centres with Corning's Kevin Hussey
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#121 Talking Ericsson's new Cradlepoint X20 5G Router with Pankaj Malhotra & John Boladian
In this new sponsored podcast, Pankaj Malhotra, Head of Enterprise Networking and Security, Enterprise Wireless Solutions, Ericsson and John Boladian, Vice President Partner Sales Asia Pacific, Enterprise Wireless Solutions at Ericsson to talk about Ericsson's new FWA solution and its benefits…
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#120 Nokia Bell Labs celebrates its centennial. Bell Labs' co-presidents, Peter Vetter and Thierry Klein
In this special episode of Comms Day Live, host Grahame Lynch delves into the remarkable history of Nokia Bell Labs, an organisation at the forefront of technological innovation for over a century. Join us for an exclusive interview with Bell Labs' co-presidents, Peter Vetter and Thierry Klein…
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#119 Kearney's Zorawar Singh
In this episode of CommsDay Live, host Grahame Lynch kicks off the year by diving into a critical topic within the telecom industry—its structural transformation. Joined by Zorawar Singh from Kearney, they explore delayering - concept that challenges traditional vertically integrated telecom...
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#118 Corning's Kim Hartwell | Yomojo's James Linton | Optus CEO Stephen Rue
Three great interviewees this week First, we hear from Kim Hartwell, Chief Commercial Officer at Corning Optical, about a groundbreaking partnership with Australia's FibreSense. Next, we catch up with James Linton, the new owner of Yomojo, about his plans to expand its service offering. Finally,...
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#117 Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark
In this episode of CommsDay Live, host Grahame Lynch welcomes a special guest, Pekka Lundmark, the global CEO of Nokia. Joining us from his first visit to Australia as CEO, Lundmark shares his journey with Nokia, starting in the 1990s and returning as CEO four years ago. Lundmark delves into...
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CommsDay turns 30: Tim Marshall talks with NBN Co's Anna Perrin
Welcome back to CommsDay Live! In this episode, host Tim Marshall, former Comms Day editor, sits down with Anna Perrin, Chief Customer Officer at NBN Co. Anna shares her journey in the telecommunications sector, reflecting on the industry's transformation over the past three decades. They discuss...
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30 years of CommsDay: Tim Marshall talks with auDA CEO Rosemary Sinclair
Welcome to CommsDay Live! In this special episode, Tim Marshall, former CommsDay editor, sits down with Rosemary Sinclair, Chief Executive of the Australian Internet Domain Administration (auDA). As part of a series celebrating the first 30 years of Communications Day, they discuss the evolution…
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CommsDay turns 30: Tim Marshall talks with outgoing Comms Alliance CEO John Stanton
Welcome back to CommDay Live, hosted by Tim Marshall, former CommsDay editor and head of TM Advisory. In this episode of a series celebrating the first 30 years of Communications Day, Tim speaks with John Stanton, the outgoing CEO of Comms Alliance. This fantastic interview elicits John's…
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CommsDay Turns 30: Tim Marshall in conversation with David Kennedy
Welcome back to CommDay Live, hosted by Tim Marshall, former CommsDay editor and head of TM Advisory. In this episode of a series celebrating the first 30 years of Communications Day, Tim speaks with David Kennedy, Managing Director at Venture Insights. David shares his unique perspective on the...
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30 Years of CommsDay: Past editors discuss their insights and reflections
Welcome to a special episode of CommsDay Live, celebrating three decades of the Communications Day newsletter. Hosted by former editor Tim Marshall, this episode brings together a unique panel of past editors who have significantly contributed to CommsDay. Join us for an engaging discussion,...
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30 Years of CommsDay; An interview with founder Grahame Lynch part 2
Welcome to the second episode of our special series celebrating the 30th anniversary of Communications Day. Hosted by former Comms Day editor Tim Marshall and featuring Grahame Lynch, the founder and publisher of Comms Day, this episode dives deep into the major themes and events that have shaped...
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30 Years of CommsDay; An interview with founder Grahame Lynch part 1
Welcome to CommsDayLive with Tim Marshall, former editor of CommsDay and now a communications and corporate affairs consultant. This is the first episode in a special series celebrating the 30-year journey of Communications Day, the publication often referred to as the Bible of Australian...
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#116 BAI's Peter Lambourne and Allot's Weiming Li
In this episode, we feature two feature interviews: 00.00 BAI Communications' CEO Peter Lambourne talks about the fascinating evolution of a company that began as a Australian government transmission operation and now provides digital infrastructure services in places such as New York City. 21.00...
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#115 Telstra's Channa Seneviratne on the 3G shutdown and some 4G incompatibilities
Telstra executive, technology development and innovation Channa Seneviratne talks about the impending 3G shutdown and the specific issue of those with older 4G handsets which may default to 3G for emergency calls. he also talks about the efforts being made by Telstra and other telcos to educate...
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#114 MWC wrap with Long Street Advisors' Mohammad Chowdhury & Re Group's Patrick Guerrera
In this special edition we have an extended discussion with two Australian-based sectoral experts who travelled to MWC in Barcelona. First up, Long Street Advisors' CEO Mohammad Chowdhury, a former PWC partner, Vodafone and IBM exec and World Bank economist, who filed a daily column for CommsDay...
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#113 Telstra CEO Vicki Brady at MWC | New iSeek CEO Scott Hicks
In this week's edition, we hear what Vicki Brady, Telstra CEO, had to say at Mobile World Congress, we catch up with the new CEO of iSeek, Scott Hicks, who talks about their service USP and we catch up with CommsDay editor Rohan Pearce to discuss the TPG results
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#112 Accenture's Paolo Sidoti
Mobile World Congress returns to Barcelona from this weekend and to preview some of the major themes of the event we spoke with Paolo Sidoti, ANZ Communications, Media, Technology (CMT) client group lead of Accenture. We cover a gamut of topics including AI and network transformation. Also we…
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#111 NBN CEO Stephen Rue & Zella DC CEO Angie Keeler
In this episode: * we speak with NBN CO CEO Stephen Rue following 1H results, focusing on the increasing uptake of Fibre Connect and the implementation of the new Special Access Undertaking * we also find out about Zella DC, the Perth based micro DC company, which is kicking goals in the US, with...
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#110 AWS' chief telco technologist Ishwar Parulkar on AI, APIs, cloud RAN and more
This week Grahame Lynch chats with AWS chief technologist, telco Ishwar Parulkar from California on his predictions for 2024 including increased use of AI by telcos, more comfort with SaaS and APIs, and a renewed move to cloud RANs. Grahame also chats with CommsDay managing editor Rohan Pearce...
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#109 Kearney's Shivani Parekh and Sarovar Agarwal on network resilience, MEF CEO Dario Betti on his regulatory predictions for 2024
In the first episode of CommsDay Live for 2024: We have an extended chat with Kearney partners Shivani Parekh from Chicago and Sarovar Agarwal from Melbourne from that consulting firm's telecom, media and technology practice on why network resilience is rising rapidly up the list of priorities…
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#108 Capti’s Todd Maunder, Sat.One’s Daniel Fairbairn and shadow comms minister David Coleman
In the last episode of CommsDay Live for 2023, Grahame Lynch speaks with: * Capti CEO Todd Maunder about what he finds compelling about the Vision Network product set which he resells * Sat.One's Daniel Fairbairn on his company's first OneWeb enterprise signing * Shadow communications minister...
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#107 Amplitel CEO Jon Lipton
In this sponsored podcast, Grahame Lynch talks with Amplitel CEO Jon Lipton. Amplitel is one of the new breed of tower companies that have emerged in recent years, but we discuss how it is more than a real estate play, but a company going up the value stack in terms of what it offers to customers...
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#106 A deep dive on cybersecurity with Absolute Software and Rapid7 | Netskope talks borderless WAN
In this episode we hear from: * Rapid7 global chief security officer Jaya Balloo talking about the cyber threats of AI and quantum, * Netskope SVP, borderless WAN Parag Thakore, and * Absolute Software CTO Nicko van Someren on the hype around AI in cybersecurity
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#105 A deep dive into AI with Amdocs and Juniper
In this episode we talk with two visiting executives from the US - Amdocs group president of technology and head of strategy Anthony Goonetilleke and Juniper Networks' Senior Director of Product Marketing for AI-Driven Enterprise Christian Gilby - about artificial intelligence, the impact it is...
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#104 Telstra network executives Nikos Katinakis and Channa Seneviratne
In this episode, Grahame Lynch chats with CommsDay's Rohan Pearce about the future of co-regulation as the minister moves to impose a standard over financial hardship cases and ACMA sets ultimatums over industry code revision. And we hear from Telstra network executives Nikos Katinakis and Channa...
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#103 A new cybersecurity czar, Optus on the MOCN decision and a talk about 6G
In this episode, we hear from * PM Anthony Albanese and cybersecurity minister Clare O'Neil about their new national cybersecurity co-ordinator appointment * Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin and MD marketing and revenue Matt Williams about the reaction to an appeal court's rejection of the...
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#102 Matt Barrie on AI, auDA and Cradlepoint
In this episode: * we hear from the founder of Freelancer.com Matt Barrie and his thoughts on AI * Rosemary Sinclair from auDA talks about the trust premium of the .au domain, and * Visiting Cradlepoint executives Lindsay Notwell and Lisa Guess talk about the rise of 5G slicing and where…
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#101 A chat with Andrew Wildblood of Vocus
Vocus is the diamond sponsor of this year's CommsDay Summit and we took the opportunity to speak with its head of enterprise and government Andrew Wildblood about this year's talking points and developments at the company
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A chat with ENE.HUB’s Adam Beck about frictionless 5G
Grahame Lynch chats with Adam Beck, the head of digital urbanism at ENE.HUB, about the company's vision for frictionless 5G and how its smart pole functionality is building bridges with local communities and government.
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#100 SUPA CEO Geoff Horth and new shadow communications minister David Coleman
In this episode we catch up with former M2 and Vocus boss Geoff Horth to find out about his new converged service provider SUPA and the new shadow communications minister comes to the studio.
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#99 TPG Telecom CEO Inaki Berroeta on his annual results
TPG Telecom returned a good set of numbers this week in an indication that it has turned the corner and now has positive momentum in the years ahead. Grahame Lynch spoke with Inaki Berroeta.
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A conversation with Mansour Karam of Juniper Networks’ Apstra
In this special sponsored edition of CommsDay Live, Grahame Lynch talks with Mansour Karam, the co-founder of Apstra, now a unit of Juniper Networks. In this podcast, they discuss the origin story of Apstra, how Karam saw a shared vision between Apstra and Juniper, what was the original problem...
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#97 Dr Vijay Sivaraman of Canopus and new Vocus CEO Ellie Sweeney
This week we take a look at a new academic paper which finds fault with national broadband measurement programs and suggests alternative ways to get more meaningful data on broadband experiences with co-author Dr Vijay Sivaraman. We also hear from the new CEO of Vocus, Ellie Sweeney, who replaces...
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#96 Catching up with the summer news with CommsDay’s Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux
CommsDay Live, the podcast, is back for 2023. In this episode, host Grahame Lynch catches up with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce to discuss all the top news that happened over the January holidays.
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#95 Vocus’ Andrew Wildblood, Amdocs’ Zoltan Losteiner & Telco Together’s Renee Bowker
In our last episode for calendar year 2022, we chat with: 0.00 Vocus chief executive, enterprise and government Andrew Wildblood about what his company in doing in leosats, private LTE and fibre deployments in the north of Australia 11.45 Amdocs VP, Customer Business Executive for the ANZ region...
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#94 Indara’s Jason Horley and Matt Healy
In this episode we hear from Indara's Jason Horley and Matt Healy on their plan for a regional mobile network in uneconomic markets that could support the needs of all three cellcos and more, as per the NZ RCG model. Our editors Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux look at a series of related announcements...
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Communications Day's Grahame Lynch keeps telco executives in ANZ up-to-date with essential business intelligence, featuring interviews with C-level executives & government ministers in this weekly podcast. Find show notes at: https://commsday.podbean.com/
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