The Week with Roger

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This Week: The Future of Distributed Cellular Networks with Frank Mong of Nova Labs Oct 09, 2023

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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 solve with a distributed network?

13:56 6 months in, what are the lessons of launching a distributed cellular network?

15:50 What does provisioning on the network look like?

18:05 More on the new Helium Mobile cellular hotspot

19:55 How does the backhaul work?

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Helium Mobile, Nova Labs, CBRS, Distributed Cellular, Crypto

This Week: MobileX Launches in Walmart Oct 02, 2023

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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

This Week: The Dish 800MHz Spectrum Saga Continues, The First 5G Call from Space, Verizon C-Band Deployment Details Sep 25, 2023

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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: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH, FCC, 800 MHz , AST SpaceMobile, C-band, DoJ

This Week: T-Mobile gets more 600 MHz Spectrum Sep 18, 2023

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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, 600 Mhz Auction

This Week: Dish and T-Mobile Disagree Over 14 MHz of Spectrum, Verizon Announces New FWA Plans Sep 04, 2023

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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 Entner, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, DISH, Fixed Wireless, FWA, 800 MHz, FCC, ARPU

This Week: The State of Prepaid with John Dwyer of AT&T Aug 28, 2023

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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 announcement - what is going on and what are the details?

7:23: Predictions about how the distribution model will shift moving forward.

9:34: The disconnect between digitizing digital phone service and customers.

11:26: What people need to know about Cricket.

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, John Dwyer, AT&T, Cricket, JD Power, ACSI, Verizon, Tracfone, Mint, prepaid, pandemic, tax refund, tax season,

This Week: Remaining C-Band Spectrum Clears Early Aug 21, 2023

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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 companies will be changing.

6:26: The financial side of FWA.

9:03: The wildcard of Augmented Reality.

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, C-Band, Verizon, T-Mobile, FWA, fixed wireless access, urban, AT&T, US Cellular, augmented reality, AR,

This Week: Dish and Echostar joining forces, Changes at Rakuten Mobile and the Future of OpenRAN Aug 14, 2023

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Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology joined by special guest and new analyst at Recon - Daryl Schoolar.

1:23: DISH and Echostar are joining forces - what this could mean for both companies.

3:57: Building a 5G OpenRAN network from scratch is expensive and tough.

5:10: T-Mobile has shared their first bits of their 5G OpenRAN network with developers.

5:42: Geoff Hollingworth shared a cryptic blog post this past week - what was that about?

9:22: The economics issues with OpenRAN.

10:54: What’s interesting to watch at Rakuten moving forward.

Read Geoff Hollingworth’s post here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/real-problem-open-ran-geoff-hollingworth/

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Daryl Schoolar, Rakuten, Open RAN, Echostar, DISH, satellite, 5G, Geoff Hollingworth, Rakuten Symphony,

This Week: US Cellular for Sale? Aug 07, 2023

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Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

0:27: US Cellular reported their Q2 earnings along with some surprising news.

3:51: US Cellular could be an interesting acquisition for someone.

6:44: US Cellular owns their own towers - the problem with that from an acquisition standpoint.

8:35: Could there be an MVNO that would want to run their own network by buying US Cellular?

10:36: Who else might be interested in buying US Cellular?

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, US Cellular, AT&T, TDS Metrocom, DISH, acquisition, Google, MVNO, MNO, MSO, Verizon, T-Mobile,

This Week: Q2 Earnings Bonanza Jul 31, 2023

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Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology.

0:41: Q2 Earnings reports are out - what Verizon’s numbers tell us.

4:17: How did AT&T do?

5:10: T- Mobile continues to report very strong numbers.

6:58: What did Comcast and Charter do well and not so well?

9:42: The Wall Street Journal ran an article on the wireless industry’s use of lead in cables - how bad is this for the industry?

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, business, wireless, cellular phone, cellular service, Recon Analytics, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Verizon, Q2, Earnings, quarterly reports, AT&T, T-Mobile, Charter, Comcast, MVNO, lead, Frontier, Lumen, lead remediation, lead, EPA,

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