CommsDay Live

This week, Grahame Lynch and Simon Dux discuss the impact on the telecom sector of the federal budget. We also chat with Dominic Morrow and Michelle Peter from Aussie Broadband about what their company is doing in the wholesale space, while we also catch up with newly appointed head of Ciena in ANZ, Ivan Polizzi.

In this edition, we chat with Mark Rafferty, the CEO of FibreconX and we hear from communications minister Michelle Rowland who delivered the Charles Todd Oration today.

In this episode we hear some of the highlights of Telstra chairman John Mullan's statements at this week's AGM and we talk about the news of the week with CommsDay chief editor Simon Dux

This week Grahame Lynch talks about the Optus data breach and we hear from Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, communications minister Michelle Rowland and treasurer Jim Chalmers. Grahame also talks with the visiting SVP from Ribbon Communications, David Hiscock.

This week we listen in to Telstra CEO Vicky Brady and shadow minister Sarah Henderson at the annual ACCAN event, discuss the rather bleak view of the ACCC of the telco sector and discuss Australian plays on satellite-to-mobile. We return in two weeks

Telstra made two big tech announcements this week around the AFL and NRL rights. We get the lowdown from Simon Dux who interviewed Telstra CFO Michael Ackland.

In this episode of CommsDay Live: * what Telstra CEO Vicki Brady said in her first speech in the role * Senator Jim Molan talks physical threats to telecom infrastructure * Telegeography analyst Marvin Tan on trans Pacific capacity * Nokia President of Network Infrastructure Federico Guillen on supply chain issues

In this edition we play the highlights of Telstra CEO Andy Penn's NPC address on cybersecurity and what Optus' Gladys Berejiklian said at the Daily Telegraph Bush Summit in Griffith.

In this week's podcast, Grahame Lynch discusses the latest TPG Telecom results with CEO Inaki Berroeta and does a deep dive into the future of the NBN Co with Symbio CEO Rene Sugo

Both Telstra and NBN Co released their financial results this week. We hear from Michael Ackland, Brendon Riley and Andy Penn of Telstra about fixed wireless, national fibre trunk and network sharing topics while we also have an extended chat with NBN CEO Stephen Rue about his results.

In this special edition of Commsday Live, we chat with Julian Todd, the great great grandson of Sir Charles Todd, who pioneered the overland telegraph cable from Adelaide to Darwin which connected the Australian colonies to the world for the first time. This month sees the 150th anniversary of this massive 19th century engineering feat.

In this episode, CommsDay's Grahame Lynch and Rohan Pearce cogitate over minister Michelle Rowland's decision this week to ask the NBN, ACCC and RSPs to try again and come up with a mutually agreeable Special Access Undertaking.

In this week's CommsDay Live, the editors team of Grahame Lynch, Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux look at NBN, Starlink, ACMA's new spectrum auction, Victrak and More Telecom.

This week CommsDay editors Grahame Lynch, Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce discuss: * TPG's response to Optus' criticisms of the Telstra network sharing pact * NBN Co's HFC triumph * Cellular industry embraces satellite delivery of 5G * Whats happening at Circles. Life * and much much more

In this special edition of CommsDay Live, we bring you Gladys Berejiklian's first interview with media since she stepped down as NSW Premier to join Optus as managing director of enterprise, business and institutional. In this interview, she talks about why she chose to work in telecoms - and specifically Optus - for her post-political career, how she sees tough economic times impacting telecom sp...

In this podcast we take a deep dive at TPG's investor day this week and listen to excerpts of what CEO Inaki Berroeta and consumer head Kieren Cooney had to say about the telco's trajectory as they consolidate following their merger with Vodafone. And then later on in the show (15:00) we hear more from Cooney on the Telstra regional network tie-up and a fulsome response from Optus' VP regulatory a...

This week we take a look at what happened at the Australasia Satellite Forum and from Australia's first astronaut Paul Scully-Power on what is about to happen in what he terms Space 2.0 and the Space Internet. It's a bold vision he paints. We also discuss other highlights of the event with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce.

Grahame Lynch talks about the news of the week with Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux including free NBN from the CBA for some loan customers, new builds from Marchnet and Nexthop, and the latest in Victorian government telco funding

In this episode, Grahame Lynch talks with Simon Dux about CPI-linked price rises in mobile and the creation of a new no 3 telco in New Zealand, as well as Rohan Pearce about opposition to the Telstra-TPG network sharing pact and a new role for the NSW Telco Authority

In this episode of CommsDay Live we hear from Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin and CFO Michael Venter on their annual results, talk about the NBN SAU and Quad telecom developments with Rohan Pearce and China's latest foray into Pacific telecoms with Simon Dux

In this episode, we speak with Oliver Wyman partner Steven Hall about a new global telco consumer survey that has some interesting and perhaps contrarian findings about Australian consumers. We also discuss new sub cables and ground-to-air broadband networks with our editors Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce

It's the last week of the federal election campaign and this week we hear what comms minister Paul Fletcher and shadow comms minister Michelle Rowland had to say at CommsDay Summit last week. We also chat with Rohan Pearce about the latest regional comms grants and a rather extraordinary state government gift to solar eclipse watchers in Western Australia. 

In this week's podcast, Grahame Lynch recaps what the telcos said at CommsDay Summit this week about policy and regulation. With an election brewing there are concerns about investment disincentives and excessive regulation. We hear from Vocus CEO Kevin Russell, Symbio CEO Rene Sugo, Optus' Andrew Sheridan, IAA CEO Narelle Clark and TPG CEO Inaki Berroeta.

In this episode we have an extended chat with NEC VP Patrick Lopez from Canada about Open RAN as well as the week that was in Australian telecom news with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce including Labor's new regional comms policy.

This week we have two feature interviews. We catch up with Telstra's next CEO Vicki Brady who was announced as the successor to Andy Penn when he steps down later this year. And we find out all about the new auDA domain range "direct AU" from CEO Rosemary Sinclair