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Telco in 20 — 141 episodes

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Ep 140 - Will telco let AI write its code? (Roy Chua)

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Ep 139 - Can telco build an AI grid? (NVIDIA’s Kanika Atri)

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Ep 138 - From programmable networks to agentic AI (Chris Wade)

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Ep 137 - Hyperscalers' $2T bet (Charles Fitzgerald)

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Ep 136 - MWC26 Wrap Up (Mobile World Live)

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Ep 135 - Telco has a context problem (John Abraham)

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Ep 134 - Show me the money (MWC)

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Ep 133 - What’s up with Totogi: The biggest AI use case for telco

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Ep 132 - Microsoft's framework for autonomous networks (Rick Lievano)

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Ep 131 - Two takes on telco’s biggest bets for 2026 (Dean Bubley)

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Ep 130 - Best of 2025: AI for networks and networks for AI (Gabriela Styf Sjöman)

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Ep 129 - Goji Mobile: The Expedia of mobile phones (Thad Hwang)

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Ep 128 - Talking AI with Telecoms.com (Scott Bicheno/Iain Morris)

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Ep 127 - The courage to change (Jim Abolt)

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Ep 126 - AI for networks and networks for AI (Gabriela Styf Sjöman)

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Ep 125 - What’s up with Totogi: The power of vertical AI (Michael Walker)

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Ep 124 - The innovation inertia of MVNOs (Allan Rasmussen)

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Ep 123 - Talking telco transformation with Tech Mahindra (Amol Phadke)

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Ep 122 - Microsoft’s hypervelocity engineering for hypervelocity telcos (Robin Cole)

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Ep 121 - Building AI-driven autonomous networks with Google Cloud (Angelo Libertucci)

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Ep 120 - The $300 billion question: Can telcos monetize network APIs? (Shkumbin Hamiti)

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Ep 119 - The 4 Strategic Imperatives Turning Etisalat into Tech Company e& (Harrison Lung)

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Ep 118 - Telefónica Germany moves the network to the public cloud (Mallik Rao)

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Ep 117 - Vodafone's new rules with open APIs, cloud-native, and AI (Lester Thomas)

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Ep 116 - You CAN run the network on AWS’ public cloud (Ishwar Parulkar)

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Ep 115 - Telstra is disrupting the status quo (Mark Sanders)

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Ep 114 - What’s up with Totogi: The ontology of BSS Magic

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Ep 113 - AI’s power problem (Roy Illsley)

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Ep 112 - AI agents are transforming telco, with Microsoft (Kevin Shatzkamer)

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Ep 111 - Building an AI-first telco (MWC)

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Ep 110 - Hyperscaler CapEx is going nuclear (Charles Fitzgerald)

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Ep 109 - The power of agentic AI with Appledore Research (John Abraham)

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Ep 108 - Wake up and smell the BSS with Ray Le Maistre from TelecomTV

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Ep 107 - Wrapping your head around Responsible AI (Ferry Grijpink)

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Ep 106 - Alianza rescues Metaswitch (Brian Beutler)

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Ep 105 - NVIDIA’s vision for AI and the RAN (Chris Penrose)

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Ep 104 - Get ready for re:Invent with AWS (Jillian Forde)

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Ep 103 - How to build an AI-first organization (Jim Abolt)

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Ep 102 - 3 ways to maximize hyperscaler discounts (Brandon Pizzacalla)

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Ep 101 - Anthropic’s BIG PLANS for telco (Neerav Kingsland)

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Ep 100 - The SPECIAL 100th episode of Telco in 20

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Ep 99 - Will TM Forum’s idea of interoperability really work? (Caroline Chappell)

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Ep 98 - Safaricom: On the hunt for revenue (Fawzia Ali)

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Ep 97 - The big trends in BSS with Appledore Research (John Abraham)

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Ep 96 - How TELUS turned its data swamp into an AI oasis (Jaime Tatis)

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Ep 95 - African telcos: forge a new path! (Ali Hussein Kassim)

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Ep 94 - Are you ready for Singtel? (Anna Yip)

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Ep 93 - The NETWORK will be the reason telcos move to the public cloud (Juha Korhonen)

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Ep 92 - The state of cloud in telco with Iain Morris from Light Reading

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Ep 91 - Exploring AIOps with Microsoft Azure (Jason Hogg)

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Ep 90 - Ali Talks Tech with Totogi and Zain on Sudan's telecom crisis

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Ep 89 - What’s up with Totogi: The public cloud is perfect for Africa

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Ep 88 - Cloud CAPEX: Not for the faint of wallet (Charles Fitzgerald)

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Ep 87 - Scaling telcos’ cloud mountain with Alianza (Brian Buetler)

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Ep 86 - Reinventing BSS (MWC)

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Ep 85 - What’s up with Totogi: 2degrees, a modern telco

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Ep 84 - MobileX's AI-driven approach (Peter Adderton)

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Ep 83 - Monetizing Network APIs (Ferry Grijpink)

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Ep 82 - Beam me up, BT (Josie Smith)

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Ep 81 - Best of 2023: The cloud-first mindset, with Mobi CEO Justen Burdette

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Ep 80 - What’s up with Totogi? How Totogi is bringing AI to charging

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Ep 79 - Weaving through the public cloud with Ribbon (Bruce McClelland)

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Ep 78 - Visionary telcos use the public cloud (Andrew Walker)

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Ep 77 - Why do subscribers churn: network coverage or price? (Stetson Doggett)

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Ep 76 - Into the Nexus of GenAI with Microsoft (Rick Lievano)

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Ep 75 - Nokia’s journey to becoming cloud native (Azfar Aslam)

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Ep 74 - It’s time to take on Twilio! (TMF DTW)

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Ep 73 - Can telco compete in CPaaS? (Yesmean Luk)

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Ep 72 - Mats Granryd talks Open Gateway

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Ep 71 - Save bookoo bucks with CloudFix (Rahul Subramaniam)

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Ep 70 - Unleashing telco potential with AWS (Chivas Nambiar)

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Ep 69 - Appledore Research sits down with Totogi (Robert Curran/John Abraham )

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Ep 68 - giffgaff is 1,000 times faster with AWS (Steve McDonald)

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Ep 67 - How to create shareholder value (Aaron Chan)

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Ep 66 - Anyone can be an MVNO with Gigs (Hermann Frank)

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Ep 65 - The new guard in telco tech (Erlend Pretgard)

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Ep 64 - The cloud-first mindset (Justen Burdette)

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Ep 63 - Ante up to be a public cloud contender (Charles Fitzgerald)

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Ep 62 - Running your network on the public cloud with Juniper Networks (Ben Baker)

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Ep 61 - SUPERCHARGE your MVNO with personalization (MWC)

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Ep 60 - The American dream: Building a killer MVNO (Ahmed Khattak)

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Ep 59 - Get ready for MWC 2023! (Lara Dewar)

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Ep 58 - Live and Learn: A new MVNO approach with Peter Adderton

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Ep 57 - Catch the public cloud train with TELUS (Hesham Fahmy)

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Ep 56 - Best of 2022 - DISH: The Telco Pioneer (Marc Rouanne)

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Ep 55 - Supercharge your MVNO (and your ARPU) by delivering a personalized subscriber experience (MVNO Nation Live)

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Ep 54 - Bye-bye, private cloud; hello, public cloud (Davide Bellini)

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Ep 53 - I scream, you scream, we all scream for MVNOs (Scott Venuti)

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Ep 52 - Born to run (in the cloud) with Nathan Bell (Nathan Bell)

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Ep 51 - Catching up with Azure and AT&T (Shawn Hakl)

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Ep 50 - The public cloud is PERFECT for India (Voice & Data Conference)

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Ep 49 - What’s up with Totogi? What it takes to deploy a telco charging system

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Ep 48 - Tips for a successful cloud transformation (Teena Piccione)

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Ep 47 - Half measures (Shaun Whalon)

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Ep 46 - The nitty gritty about public cloud security (Amy Zwarico)

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Ep 45 - Drumming up ways to increase ARPU with McKinsey (Ferry Grijpink)

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Ep 44 - DISH: The Telco Pioneer (Marc Rouanne)

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Ep 43 - Telco’s Pinball Wizard: Neil McRae

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Ep 42 - Talking Telco with Google Cloud (Amol Phadke)

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Ep 41 - Telco Religious Wars: Charging Databases (Alex DeBrie)

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Ep 40 - New ways to build your future-ready workforce (Kamal Ahluwalia)

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Ep 39 - Hacking Cloud Costs (Michael Kearns)

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Ep 38 - What’s Up with Totogi? The Future of Charging

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Ep 37 - A Chat with AWS about the Future of Telco Tech (Claus Verner)

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Ep 36 - The Public Cloud is NOW (MWC)

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Ep 35 - Azure has private networks, too! (Shriraj Gaglani)

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Ep 34 - Get ready for CLOUD CITY 2022! (David Haselwood)

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Ep 33 - Quick and easy real-time communications with Amazon Chime SDK (Sid Rao)

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Ep 32 - 2022 Predictions: All aboard the public cloud train

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Ep 31 - Verizon’s public cloud journey (Nanda Kumar)

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Ep 30 - What’s up with Totogi? Achieving Feature Velocity with the Totogi APIs

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Ep 29 - Telco in 20’s Best of 2021 (Juha Korhonen)

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Ep 28 - Talking public cloud with GSMA (Mats Granryd)

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Ep 27 - Talking public cloud with Telecoms.com (Scott Bicheno/Iain Morris )

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Ep 26 - Avoid vendor lock-in with TM Forum Open APIs (TMF DTW)

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Ep 25 - Get ready to use the public cloud… in Afghanistan (Imtiaz Esmail)

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Ep 24 - What’s up with Totogi?

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Ep 23 - DynamoDB: A tier 0 database (Rick Houlihan)

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Ep 22 - Meet mediation vendor Digital Route (Jonas Wallenius)

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Ep 21 - How we rocked MWC21 (David Haselwood)

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Ep 20 - The paradox of the public cloud (MWC)

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Ep 19 - Double your ARPU with customer ❤️❤️❤️ (MWL)

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Ep 18 - A digital telco: Meet Yaqoot (Juha Korhonen)

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Ep 17 - The Software Series: LastMileXchange (James Grant/Andrew Hoskin)

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Ep 16 - #SaveMWC (David Haselwood)

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Ep 15 - Totogi: The new ant at the picnic (DSP Leaders World Forum)

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Ep 14 - The Software Series: PortaOne (Andriy Zhylenko)

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Ep 13 - The Software Series: CSG (Jon Fagan)

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Ep 12 - Monetizing 5G and IoT (Pete Bernard)

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Ep 11 - The Software Series: MATRIXX (Marc Price)

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Ep 10 - 2021 Forecast: cloudy with a chance of OpenRAN

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Ep 09 - Microsoft’s big move (Yousef Khalidi)

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Ep 08 - The HR Series: Pair programming - the most powerful tool you’ve never used (Farhan Thawar)

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Ep 07 - The HR Series: Telcos, get ready for workforce transformation (Jim Abolt)

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Ep 06 - The BFCs: Is Google Cloud Platform (GCP) right for telcos? (Neil Bunn)

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Ep 05 - The BFCs: Putting Microsoft Azure to the test for telcos (Rick Lievano)

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Ep 04 - Lift Off: Right-size your public cloud spending (Corey Quinn)

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Ep 03 - Lift Off: Telcos moving to the public cloud - beware of lift and shift (Forrest Brazeal)

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Ep 02 - Lift Off: Taking the first step (Troy O’Brien)

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Ep 01 - It starts with...transformational leadership (Jim Abolt)

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