Beyond the Cable with Brad Randall

Rob Chambers, the Managing Director of Total Telecom , says Connected Britian has evolved with the growth of the market in the United Kingdom. "What started as being a conversation purely about fiber rollout has now moved on to a more complete discussion about connectivity and what people do with it," he said, speaking to Beyond the Cable in London. Similar to Total Telecom's U.S. ev...

As a vendor in the business support systems (BSS) space, Ryan O'Hanlon said MDS Global has built a diverse portfolio of customers, including BT and Virgin Media O2. O'Hanlon, the VP of global sales for MDS Global, said mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are also included among MDS Global's customers. His comments came during a recent appearance on the Beyond the Cable podcast at...

Joel Ogren, the CEO and founder of Assured Communications, says building partnerships with tribal communities is about listening and understanding history from different perspectives. With a lengthy career that includes years spent working with the Pacific Islander community in Hawaii, Ogren has now applied his relationship-building skills to build lasting partnerships in Washington State. Namely,...

John Duncan is the Connected Places Lead for Greater Manchester, which encompasses the largest metropolitan area in Northern England. Recently, at Connected Britain in London, Duncan appeared on Beyond the Cable, a Broadband Communities podcast, to discuss Greater Manchester's cutting-edge work to better connect the area's nearly 3 million residents. Leading strategic policy initiatives fo...

Multifamily properties that aren't meeting the connectivity needs of residents remains a major gap in 2025, but it's one that Ed Wolff, the CEO of Aerwave, hopes to help fill. As a symbol of Aerwave's recent success, the company took home the trophy for Multifamily Partner of the Year at the 2025 Broadband Communities Awards in Houston. Wolff said Aerwave was honored to receive the rec...

Abby Crawford, a podcasting and marketing specialist with FiberCom Engineering, is the host of Field Notes - a podcast that introduces her audience to public and private sector leaders in the communications industry. Through her role, Crawford said she gets to lead the storytelling efforts of FiberCom Engineering, a telecom engineering firm. Crawford said one of her missions is to elevate voices t...

Ebony Cooksey says NextLink Internet has made it their mission to expand service to rural America, especially in the Heartland. As they expand, beyond fixed wireless to fiber, she said the ISP is focused on deploying "the right tool for the toolkit," depending on the needs of individual communities. In her job, Cooksey said she deals with local officials who are very interested in enhanc...

Mark Campagna, the CEO of gaiia, says ISPs who don't adopt software technology offerings that can help enhance efficiencies may face extinction. In this episode of Beyond the Cable, Campagna talks about how technology is evolving to help ISPs offer great customer service, something he says is a massive differentiator in a crowded marketplace.

In this episode, Kate Grutzmacher, who manages community partnerships with Blue Stream Fiber as a senior vice president, joins us to discuss Houston, which is one of the fastest markets in the nation with respect to multifamily communities. "When we were looking at expansion markets, we looked at Houston very hard," Grutzmacher said on a recent episode of Beyond the Cable. Houston's...

Adlane Fellah, the chief researcher for Maravedis, says the MDU connectivity market has become attractive for companies seeking to disrupt incumbent vendors. Speaking to Beyond the Cable at Broadband Communities Summit last month in Houston, Fellah says he sees a big opportunity for brownfield deployments in the coming months and years. He said his company, a boutique research firm that provides i...

Kevin McGuire, a VP of broadband policy at Great Plains Communications (GPC), says 2025 is a big year for broadband. We caught up with Kevin on Day 1 of the Broadband Communities Summit last month in Houston to discuss GPC's ongoing efforts to expand their footprint to additional unserved and underserved locations.

Chris Curtin, the president of Ubiquity's smart buildings division, says Ubiquity is making a big play for MDU brownfield communities that have been passed over by other providers. By partnering with ISPs that possess their own fiber backhaul, Curtin said Ubiquity is able to put together an economic profile that benefits multiple parties, including MDU owners/operators, and their ISP partners....

Jeff Johnson, who leads Quantum Fiber's Connected Communities teams, says the importance of pre-planning evaluations before fiber-to-the-unit or premises builds cannot be understated. He said Quantum Fiber's sales engineers are highly involved in the process, identifying the best solutions for a given property. Once plans are set, Johnson said Quantum Fiber's construction teams take ov...

Ripple Fiber has made some big moves lately, including the completion of a strategic merger with Hyperfiber and debt capacity increase to $350 million. We sat down with Greg Wilson, the ISP's CEO, at Fiber Connect in Nashville, to discuss what's next for Ribble Fiber.

Fiber is a futureproofed technology that can adapt with innovative breakthroughs, according to Mike Janssen, a senior manager of sales and engineering at Quantum Fiber. "It's a great investment, it increases your property value," Janssen said. As a sales engineer, Janssen said his team is responsible for pre-planning work, communicating with customers, and trying to understand techni...

In this episode we speak with Felix Dialoiso, a founding partner at Harbor Link Holdings LLC. As we'll find out, Harbor Link is undertaking an ambitious fiber build in the D.C. Metro, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia area. Their network, built for the demands of tomorrow, is 100% underground. Felix explains the complexities that have come with that, and how Harbor Link has managed the checkerb...

Brandon Dinsmore is a tribal outreach and workforce development specialist at the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. In this episode of Beyond the Cable, Brandon talks to us about how members of tribal communities are being empowered to take the future into their own hands with career paths in telecommunications.

Policy decisions regarding tariffs coming from the White House can have enormous effects on supply chains but, as Total Telecom Editor Harry Baldock explained recently on Beyond the Cable, the dust is still settling regarding the impacts of those decisions.  Baldock said it appears folks still don't know how thought out the White House's trade policies are, which is causing anxiety. "...

We caught up with Sachin Gupta, of Centranet, to discuss their milestone in Oklahoma. Recently, Centranet provided one of the fastest connections globally to a pilot member of the Sac and Fox Nation. Nokia later called the achievement the first live commercial trial of 50G PON technology in a tribal nation. In this episode of Beyond the Cable, we discuss what the achievement means for the future o...

The rise of digital infrastructure needs has led telecom workforces to have a unique role in communities across America. As such, telecom workforces often have a unique opportunity to spot the telltale signs of human trafficking, according to Josh Loaiza, of the 3Strands Global Foundation . In this episode, we speak with Loaiza about a 3Strands initiative known as Telecommunications Against Traffi...

We speak with Stephen Rose, the newly named CEO of Render Networks, to discuss AI's potential to streamline deployments, which could lead to big savings for internet service providers (ISPs). Plus, hear Rose's take on why AI doesn't pose a risk as an industry job killer on this episode recorded from the exhibition floor of Connected America 2025 earlier this month in Dallas.

Arbitrary decision making has shaken the confidence of workers at the NTIA, according to Evan Feinman, the former director of the BEAD Program. According to Feinman, who resigned his post on Friday, March 14, that fear hurt the culture within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which advises the president on telecommunications policy. Hear why that, and reviews w...

In Part 1 of our two-part series of Beyond the Cable from Connected America we interview Kelly Colman, the CEO of a startup named Xenesis, Bob Lamb, the VP of Global Sales at Aprecomm, and Megan Steckly, the CEO of Compudopt. Catch Part 2 of this series on Tuesday, March 25, when we bring you our interviews from Day 2 of Connected America.

Questions are swirling around the future of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program since the administration of President Donald J. Trump has taken the helm. On this episode of Beyond the Cable, Dr. Nathan Smith, the Director of Economics and Policy for Connected Nation, joins us to talk about the future of the BEAD program, which has been the subject of some criticism from Rep...

Charles Thomas, the Chief Strategy Officer for Rural Broadband Partners (RBP), says he tells ISPs in rural areas not to view themselves as rural providers. Instead, he asks them to look at urban providers and to examine the resources those entities have. "You want to build that into your location," he says. On this episode of Beyond the Cable, we discuss more strategy, and Thomas' mi...