Light Reading Weekly 31
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#TheDivide: Jonathan Spalter, CEO of USTelecom, joins the show to discuss how the telecommunications industry is working toward closing the #digitaldivide, and what it will take to make the BEAD program a success.
"We have no radio manufacturing in China," Mavenir wrote in response to questions from Light Reading. Other #5G equipment vendors made similar assurances, but the devil remains in the details.
Nokia's Peter Vetter joins the podcast to discuss challenges to deploying and reaping the benefits of #6G. He explains progress toward developing 6G standards and how 6G will fuse digital and physical environments.
Dish shares spiked Friday following a Bloomberg report that Dish is among the mobile network operators negotiating with Amazon. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have also been linked to the talks.
American Tower and IBM execs join us to discuss how the tower company's acquisition of CoreSite has impacted its data center business, how the edge computing market is evolving, and why sustainability and energy consumption is a growing concern for both companies.
Google Fiber is in expansion mode, but the unit apparently won't chase after funds set aside for BEAD and other rural-focused government subsidy programs. Or at least it won't pursue those dollars on its own.
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