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Kelly Richards, senior vice president of sales at Raycap, talks the importance of future proofing our networks and of incorporating sustainable products into network architecture. We also discuss how mysteriously short the women's restroom lines at telecom trade shows tend to be.

On this week's episode, Suruchi Gupta, Samsung's senior professional of sales and head of 5G collaboration, discusses the company's commitment to helping create an open telecom ecosystem that supports multi-vendor interoperability.

T-Mobile's John Saw, executive vice president of advanced and emerging technologies, discusses the operator's latest 5G milestones; how T-Mo is investing in innovation via its T-Mobile Accelerator and the 5G Open Innovation Lab; and how the work of Viktor Frankl informs his own search for meaning.

On this week's episode, Verizon Chief Customer Officer Aparna Khurjekar explores what being a leader in the communications industry has been like during COVID-19 and more specifically, how Verizon has approached delivering a more digital customer experience.

On this week's episode of Well, technically... CommScope's Director of Product Line Management for Metro Cell Solutions Iris Troiano and CommScope's MetroCell Sales Manager Kat Folger have a conversation about how proper concealment solutions facilitate small cell adoption and scalability.

This week we talk to Tareq Amin, Rakuten Mobile CTO and Group EVP and CAO of Rakuten, about his vision for (and reality of) a fully-virtualized, cloud-native network. Amin reflects on his time at Reliance Jio, discusses the future of Open RAN, and shares his motto--which doesn't easily translate to Japanese.

On this week’s episode, Julie Purves, CEO and founder of B2M Solutions, discusses mobile analytics in the time of COVID-19, the growing role that mobile devices play the workplace, and explores the question: Are failing devices making your employees sick? She also shares some insights she’s gained from Maya Angelou.

Janet Giesen, VP of operations at Metallic, discusses how the SaaS company adjusted its approach to marketing security products once COVID-19 hit, as well as what enterprises need to keep in mind as their networks expand into employee homes.

Facebook Connectivity Vice President Dan Rabinovitsj discusses the company's participation in Telecom Infra Project initiatives with an emphasis on Open RAN and how it fits into the larger 5G deployment strategies. Rabinovitsj also looks at rural Open RAN trial activity and reflects on his most treasured possession.

On this week's episode of Well, technically... prominent Tech Analyst Carolina Milanesi discusses her new company The Heart of Tech, which aims to help technology providers in two key areas that should be on the minds of every tech company: education and diversity.

Glenn Lurie, president and CEO of Synchronoss Technologies, discusses the pressure operators face to monetize 5G network investments and how they can accelerate time to revenue. He also looks at how to strike a balance between incremental revenue gains and long-term innovation, and paints a picture of a 5G-enabled future.

Boingo's Rachel Rea, senior director of carrier sales, discusses distributed antenna system (DAS) in more detail, specifically focusing on the role these systems will play in the 5G era. Amazon's Alexa also makes a surprise appearance.

5G brings a new level of complexity to smartphone designs. To help its OEM partners, Qualcomm has honed its focus on RF front-end technologies to create a modem-to-antenna solution that simplifies the design process. Christian Block, Senior Vice President and General Manager, RFFE, QUALCOMM Germany RFFE GmbH, discusses operative parts of the RFFE business, links OEM design simplification to consumer adoption, and shouts out Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler.

This week's guest is RCR Wireless's very own Executive Editor Kelly Hill. She takes us through some of her CBRS spectrum auction coverage and explains why she thinks streaming is the best recent technological advancement.

On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, former Qualcomm Director of Product Marketing, Mobile Gaming and XR Technologies Leilani DeLeon talks XR and mobile gaming trends, as well as how her new company My Legacy is using the latest technology to build and preserve family histories.

Just as LAA made it possible for many operators to provide gigabit-class LTE, NR-U is poised to open the unlicensed 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands to mobile services in both a non-standalone and standalone mode. Qualcomm's Xiaoxia Zhang discusses the company's focus on NR-U and what its inclusion in 3GPP Rel. 16 means for the industry.

On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, Qualcomm's CIO Mary Gendron explores the three different definitions of digital transformation, how Qualcomm is tackling the "new normal" and what it was like being a woman following in her father's engineering footsteps.

Corning's Michelle Engarto, vice president of wireless solutions and product line management, reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the role of cellular into sharp focus. She discusses how 5G can be applied in vertical industries like manufacturing and logistics, then pulls the lens back to consider the compounding value created when 5G solutions are adopted in adjacent verticals.

On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, Heather 'Mo' Williams, network solutions analyst at CommScope, discusses Wi-Fi 6E, the challenge of bringing connectivity to rural America and her love of honey badgers.

Intel's Caroline Chan talks through how 5G, when combined with edge computing and artificial intelligence, will serve as pillars for future innovation. Chan, who serves as vice president of the Data Platforms Group and general manager of the Network Business Incubator Division for the Network Platforms Group at Intel, also touches on industry trend lines around open RAN and private networking, and reflects on her love for Austin, Texas.