The Week with Roger

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner dissect the recent Verizon sell side analyst event as well as discuss the future of wireless retail stores. 00:26 Verizon's sell side analyst event 00:47 Roger's thoughts on the event 01:11 Don's thoughts on the event 02:20 Big management changes at Verizon 03:45 Verizon's reversion to a regional structure 04:47 The wireless industry shedding personnel 05:19 T...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner dive into the 4th Quarter earnings for both telecom and cable. They also discuss the impact of FWA, customer satisfaction in the cable industry, and Roger's exciting purchase of the new Apple Vision Pro. 00:38 Verizon's Q4 Earnings 03:24 FWA's impact 05:28 Verizon's postpaid adds 06:41 AT&T's Q4 Earnings 09:15 T-Mobile's Q4 Earnings 10:16 Customer satisfac...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner are joined Jeff Blum, EVP of External & Government Affairs at Dish, Chip Pickering, CEO of Incompas, and former FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly to discuss changes in the 12 GHz band and the expanding role of fixed wireless in the marketplace. 00:48 Roger explains the FCC's decisions on the 12 GHz band 01:05 Jeff Blum's view on the FCC decisions 02:06 Chi...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the 2024 price increases set to affect wireless customers, as well as the current state of the streaming industry. 00:48 AT&T price increases and service upgrades 02:28 Verizon price increases for both consumer and business legacy plans 03:18 T-Mobile abandons their Price Lock guarantee 05:35 T-Mobile passes “Netflix On Us” increases onto consumers...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:30 Roger's CES impressions 1:50 Thoughts on Samsung exiting the low-end device space 5:00 By getting out of low-end Android devices, is Samsung getting a smaller piece of a smaller pie? 7:45 Aspects of the device experience that are improving 10:30 What about foldables? Tags: telecom, telecommunicati...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:35 MaxLinear debuts DOCSIS 4.0 chipset  1:38 Consumer applications for super high speeds  3:09 T-Mobile’s 6 carrier aggregation  4:28 - What is carrier aggregation and what are its use cases?  Relevant Articles: T-Mobile News: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-deliver...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 1:00 Convergence is real, and it's great for customers 6:20 Fixed Wireless Access is the 5G killer app 7:00 The shift to premium wireless plans 11:35 Industry-wide churn at record lows - people are happy 13:00 Postpaid grows at the expense of prepaid Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Denny Strigl, retired president and CEO of Verizon wireless. 1:00 How to be a disruptor as a leader rather than as an insurgent 2:50 The Verizon Wireless credo 4:00 Culture is the lifeblood of an organization 5:00 Translating the credo to action 7:15 Building a deep bench with a decen...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:30 Roger recently presented at the New Street Research / BCG Future series conference- what the Recon Analytics data says about Net Promoter Score 4:30 What the industry has learned with FWA 7:00 The relationship between ARPU and NPS 14:00 Verizon FWA has separated from the rest of the industry in th...

Analysts Roger Entner, Daryl Schoolar and Brett Clark discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Bejoy Pankajakshan, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Mavenir. 1:00 Key themes and takeaways from the 2023 Mavenir industry analyst day 5:45 Where AI ties in for OpenRAN  7:30 The scope of Mavenir’s offerings within the CSP ecosystem 12:45 Looking at the ye...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:30 The Whitehouse announces new spectrum policy, but where is the beef? 5:00 The economic benefits of licensed and unlicensed spectrum Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, cellular phone, wireless spectrum, FCC, whitehouse, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, MVNO

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:45 Reintroduction of Net Neutrality rules 2:45 Recent history of FCC implementing Net Neutrality 6:30 Regulations on ISPs and Operators vs Tech companies 8:15 Greater threats to free and open internet 11:20 Impact on Network Operators

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Nico Girard, CEO of OXIO 0:45 What is Oxio and how is it different? 3:05 How Oxio got started 4:30 How Oxio delivers advanced services for MobileX 8:00 How can Oxio help invigorate the MVNO market and extend telephony services across borders 12:00 How Oxio creates a custom telecom ser...

Analysts Daryl Schoolar and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Alok Shah Vice President, Networks Strategy, BD, & Marketing at Samsung Electronics America. 1:25 Samsung’s approach to OpenRAN and VRAN 4:00 OpenRAN vs VRAN and how are operators choosing between the two 7:30 Samsung’s view on what constitutes OpenRAN 12:00 Outlook for In-line...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:24 - Altice releases information about how much of their free mobile customers are converting to paid plans 6:00  FWA  a discussion of FWA bundling versus cable bundling 8:45 Verizon names a new CFO Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Rec...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:40 An overview of AT&T’s earnings 3:25 Roger’s article on who is winning on iPhone 15 so far https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/whos-leading-iphone-upgrade-game-entner 7:15 Verizon’s Q3 ‘23 earnings 10:37 Discussion on Verizon’s prepaid strategy & MobileX MobileX endcap - courtesy of Jef...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Joe Russo, EVP and President of Global Networks & Technology at Verizon. 0:45 An update on the state of the Verizon network 1:40 Verizon’s network gets high grades on the Recon Analytics Pulse tool- particularly for FWA and mobility in urban areas. What is the timeline to expand C...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. This week Roger and Don are joined by the Recon Analytics team, live from the 5G Americas analyst forum: Brett Clark, Mitch Klaassen, Jake Hawkridge and Jared Chavez. Peter Linder of Ericsson also joined the podcast to talk about what he saw at the event. 0:45 5G Americas is the premier analyst event i...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with Frank Mong, COO of Nova Labs.  0:40 What is Nova Labs trying to solve for? 4:34 Building a hybrid distributed cellular infrastructure on CRBS spectrum alongside WiFi and the T-Mobile macro network 6:50 Where are we on the adoption curve for a distributed cellular network? What problems can we...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:20 MobileX is launching in Walmart. What are the implications for the prepaid ecosystem? Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH, Tracfone, MobileX, Walmart, Prepaid

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:30 Dish is back in the news, this time the DoJ is backing an extension for the 800 MHz spectrum purchase from T-Mobile 3:50 AST Makes the first 5G voice call from space 6:30 Verizon provides more details around the C-Band deployment progress 12:00 Verizon's pricing strategy vis a vis the MSOs Tags: t...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:35 T-Mobile is going to buy Comcast's 600 MHz spectrum 3:30 Will we see a return of the spectrum screen? Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner,  AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH, FCC, Spectrum Screen,...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:30 T-Mobile and Dish are having trouble coming to an agreement about Dish buying 14 MHz of T-Mobile's 800 MHz spectrum 7:00 Verizon announces new Fixed Wireless Access plans Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger En...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest John Dwyer, President of Prepaid and Cricket Wireless at AT&T. 0:48:  John shares a “State of the Union” in prepaid and specifically for Cricket. 3:10:  How have customer expectations changed today versus before the pandemic? 4:33:  AT&T has an exciting new anno...

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology. 0:26:  Verizon just released news about their C-Band deployment - what is their news and how it affects the rest of the industry. 1:44:  How Verizon compares to T-Mobile currently. 3:41:  What are the real-world uses for mid-band spectrum right now? 4:49:  How AT&T and the other...