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In this episode: * we hear from the founder of Freelancer.com Matt Barrie and his thoughts on AI * Rosemary Sinclair from auDA talks about the trust premium of the .au domain, and * Visiting Cradlepoint executives Lindsay Notwell and Lisa Guess talk about the rise of 5G slicing and where Australia is at in wireless enterprise use cases

Vocus is the diamond sponsor of this year's CommsDay Summit and we took the opportunity to speak with its head of enterprise and government Andrew Wildblood about this year's talking points and developments at the company

Grahame Lynch chats with Adam Beck, the head of digital urbanism at ENE.HUB, about the company's vision for frictionless 5G and how its smart pole functionality is building bridges with local communities and government.

In this episode we catch up with former M2 and Vocus boss Geoff Horth to find out about his new converged service provider SUPA and the new shadow communications minister comes to the studio.

TPG Telecom returned a good set of numbers this week in an indication that it has turned the corner and now has positive momentum in the years ahead. Grahame Lynch spoke with Inaki Berroeta.

  In this special sponsored edition of CommsDay Live, Grahame Lynch talks with Mansour Karam, the co-founder of Apstra, now a unit of Juniper Networks. In this podcast, they discuss the origin story of Apstra, how Karam saw a shared vision between Apstra and Juniper, what was the original problem that Apstra sought to solve, the idea behind intent-based networking and how Apstra performs in blind end-user studies. They conclude by discussing what lies in the future for Apstra.

This week we take a look at a new academic paper which finds fault with national broadband measurement programs and suggests alternative ways to get more meaningful data on broadband experiences with co-author Dr Vijay Sivaraman. We also hear from the new CEO of Vocus, Ellie Sweeney, who replaces the retiring Kevin Russell in a few weeks.

CommsDay Live, the podcast, is back for 2023. In this episode, host Grahame Lynch catches up with Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce to discuss all the top news that happened over the January holidays.

In our last episode for calendar year 2022, we chat with: 0.00 Vocus chief executive, enterprise and government Andrew Wildblood about what his company in doing in leosats, private LTE and fibre deployments in the north of Australia 11.45 Amdocs VP, Customer Business Executive for the ANZ region Zoltan Losteiner and hear what he has to say about trends in enterprise communications and network automation, and 24.15 Telco Together founder Renee Bowker on their tenth anniversary, highlights and plans from here on. It's a big final episode for the year!

In this episode we hear from Indara's Jason Horley and Matt Healy on their plan for a regional mobile network in uneconomic markets that could support the needs of all three cellcos and more, as per the NZ RCG model. Our editors Rohan Pearce and Simon Dux look at a series of related announcements and views from Amplitel, the NT government and NSW Gig State.

In this episode we hear from Amplitel CEO Jon Lipton and chat with CommsDay editors Simon Dux and Rohan Pearce about the week that was

CommsDay held its Wholesale Forum this week in Sydney: Directions for Australian telecom wholesale with panellists Zia Bhadiar partner, Oliver Wyman, Venture Insights MD David Kennedy, Vocus GM - Wholesale national sales Tristan Clash, Symbio GM Products Dylan Brown, Superloop chief commercial officer Nick Pachos and Swoop CTO Tom Berryman. This panel looks at the big trends in Australian wholesale markets: NBN resale, dark fibre and private access networks, 5G, leosat and more The moderator is James Linton, formerly of Exetel

This week, we speak with: * Executive editor Rohan Pearce about the government's post budget regional comms roadshow * Swoop's chief revenue officer Sean Clarke joins us to talk about his company and its wholesale strategy, and * Vocus dir, government relations Luke Coleman on the problems with overlapping and expensive universal service subsidies and how LEOsats may come to the rescue

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