The Week with Roger

By Roger Entner

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Each week, join Roger Entner and the Recon Analytics team for an analysts perspective on the world of telecom.

Episode Date
This Week: Verizon’s New Network Leader and the Growing AI Memory Crunch
Jun 08, 2026
This Week: 5 Gig Cable, BEAD Shakeups, and the Starlink Opportunity
Jun 01, 2026
This Week: Modular Pricing, Network Strain, and California's Copper Standoff
May 26, 2026
This Week: AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile Join Forces on Satellite Connectivity
May 18, 2026
This Week: Promises, Promises, Promises - Price Locks and the Cost of Predictability
May 11, 2026
This Week: Q1 '26 Earnings - Verizon, T-Mobile, and Key Takeaways from Deutsche Telekom
May 04, 2026
This Week: Q1 '26 Earnings - AT&T, Comcast, and Charter and the Rise of Fiber Castles
Apr 27, 2026
This Week: What Comes Next When All Networks Are Good Enough?
Apr 20, 2026
This Week: Churn and the Future of Loyalty with Jay Cary and Dave Whetstone
Apr 13, 2026
This Week: AT&T’s OneConnect Plan
Apr 06, 2026
This Week: The Telecom Value Story, The FCC Router Ban Threatens a New Digital Divide
Mar 30, 2026
This Week: Of Fiber Castles, Cable Forts, FWA Camps, and Satellite Warbands
Mar 23, 2026
This Week: Recon Analytics Acquires Atom Insights adding Device Data dimension
Mar 16, 2026
This Week: AI, 6G, and Satellites- What Really Mattered at Mobile World Congress
Mar 08, 2026
This Week: Fiber, Phones, and Farewells: The Reshaping of Telecom's Landscape
Mar 01, 2026
This Week: It’s Not Complicated More Transparency Is Better. AT&T vs T-Mobile
Feb 23, 2026
This Week: T-Mobile - AI, Live Translation, and Key CMD Takeaways
Feb 16, 2026
This Week: Verizon Consumer's Shakeup and the Search for a New Leader
Feb 09, 2026
This Week: Q4 '25 Earnings - AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, & Charter - Convergence Takes Center Stage
Feb 02, 2026
This Week: Comcast’s Xfinity Membership and the True Nature of Rewards Programs
Jan 26, 2026
This Week: Verizon — Two Major Wins and One Temporary Setback
Jan 19, 2026
This Week: T-Mobile’s Better Value Plan & Who Loyalty Plans Really Target
Jan 12, 2026
This Week: The Anxiety Premium and the US Device Insurance Market
Jan 05, 2026
This Week: Genius Myopia - Why Smarter Models Aren't Enough
Dec 29, 2025
This Week: Christmas Episode - A Spirited Discussion on Wireless Industry Economics with Peter Adderton and Ronan Dunne
Dec 22, 2025
This Week: Super Owner Economics - Comcast & Charter’s Network Jiu-Jitsu
Dec 15, 2025
This Week: Starlink’s Victory Lap, Amazon’s Sprint, and GEOs Crashing
Dec 08, 2025
This Week: A New C-Band Auction & What It Means for Wireless and Satellite
Dec 01, 2025
This Week: Vegas Baby! T-Mobile Easy to Switch Un-carrier Event
Nov 24, 2025
This Week: Verizon’s Cost-Cutting Drive - A Difficult Step to Ignite Growth in 2026
Nov 17, 2025
This Week: EchoStar’s AWS-3 Deal with SpaceX & T-Mobile’s Text-to-911 Move
Nov 10, 2025
This Week: Q3 '25 Earnings - Verizon, Comcast, and Charter - The Problem Children
Nov 03, 2025
This Week: Q3 '25 Earnings - Breaking Down AT&T and T-Mobile’s Results
Oct 27, 2025
This Week: Change is Afoot- All About Verizon's New CEO Dan Schulman
Oct 19, 2025
This Week: ZTE’s Analyst Summit - AI, 6G, and Global Network Innovation
Oct 13, 2025
This Week: Honoring Pioneers at the 2025 Wireless Hall of Fame Induction
Oct 06, 2025
This Week: T-Mobile’s New CEO Srini Gopalan and What to Expect Next
Sep 29, 2025
This Week: Inside Ericsson’s Enterprise Push and AI-Driven 5G Solutions
Sep 22, 2025
This Week: SpaceX’s Spectrum Deal, EchoStar’s Exit, and the Future of Satellite Wireless with Tim Farrar
Sep 15, 2025
This Week: Echostar's Spectrum Sale and the Road Forward
Sep 08, 2025
This Week: T-Mobile’s Business Push, Technology Advantages, and 5G Slicing with Daryl Schoolar
Sep 01, 2025
This Week: Cricket President Angela Rittgers on the Company's Growth Strategy & Prepaid-Postpaid Convergence
Aug 25, 2025
This Week: Deutsche Telekom's New AI Phone & the Future of AI-Device Integration
Aug 18, 2025
This Week: AT&T’s Customer-First Strategy with Jenifer Robertson
Aug 11, 2025
This Week: Q2 '25 Earnings from Cable Giants Charter and Comcast
Aug 04, 2025
This Week: Q2 '25 Earnings & T-Mobile's Deal with Comcast & Charter
Jul 28, 2025
This Week: MobileX & Boost - Golden Hand Shackles or a Golden Opportunity?
Jul 21, 2025
This Week: US Cellular's Final Chapter & the Impending Rural Telecom Consolidation Wave
Jul 14, 2025
This Week: Innovating Fixed Wireless Services for Enterprises with Eric Watko, CEO of BroadbandOne
Jul 07, 2025
This Week: Elevating Customer Service, Rewards, and Loyalty with Verizon Consumer Group CEO, Sowmyanarayan Sampath
Jun 30, 2025
This Week: Titans of Prepaid with MobileX's Peter Adderton
Jun 23, 2025
This Week: Discussing the Future of the CBRS Band with Federated Wireless CEO, Iyad Tarazi
Jun 16, 2025
This Week: Recent Regulatory Changes & Recon launches Spanish-Language Telecom Insights Service
Jun 09, 2025
This Week: Takeaways from the Latest Telecom Investor Conferences
Jun 02, 2025
This Week: Catching up with CellSite Solutions CEO, Jim Patterson
May 26, 2025
This Week: The New Spectrum Pipeline Proposal & Charter's Acquisition of Cox
May 19, 2025
This Week: What a Recession Would Look Like for Telecom & European Cautionary Tales
May 12, 2025
This Week: T-Mobile Experience and Beyond - The Not-So-Un-Carrier's New Plans
May 05, 2025
This Week: Q1 Earnings Recap and Looming Tariffs
Apr 28, 2025
This Week: Comcast's New Price Plan and Use Cases for Starlink
Apr 21, 2025
This Week: Sunshine and Roses in Telecom-land
Apr 14, 2025
This Week: Innovations for First Responders with the Vice President of Verizon Frontline, Cory Davis
Apr 07, 2025
This Week: Innovating MVNO Creation with Hermann Frank, CEO of Gigs
Mar 31, 2025
This Week: Crown Castle, Zayo, Grain Management, Recession Fears, and Handset Trends
Mar 24, 2025
This Week: Connecting First Responders with FirstNet President Scott Agnew
Mar 17, 2025
This Week: T-Priority & the BEAD Program
Mar 10, 2025
This Week: The Future of Large-Scale Data Infrastructure with Zayo's Bill Long
Mar 03, 2025
This Week: Origins of Prepaid and Lessons from Former Tracfone CMO, Robert Dandrea
Feb 24, 2025
This Week: The Video Conferencing "Eye Contact Problem" with Casablanca.ai Founder Carsten Kraus
Feb 18, 2025
This Week: Verizon's Consumer Connections Report with Consumer Group CEO Sampath
Feb 10, 2025
This Week: Q4 '24 Earnings Recap, Changes at the FCC
Feb 03, 2025
This Week: Consumer Perception vs. Reality in Wireless
Jan 27, 2025
This Week: AI's Impact on Data Storage with Mitch Klaassen
Jan 20, 2025
This Week: Will AT&T's Guarantee Change the Game?
Jan 13, 2025
This Week: The Future of Cloud and AI with Brandon Larson of Mavenir
Jan 06, 2025
This Week: 2024 Year in Review & The Year Ahead
Dec 30, 2024
This Week: The Origins of the Verizon Credo with Jim Gerace
Dec 23, 2024
This Week: Titans of Prepaid with Mint Mobile's Aron North
Dec 15, 2024
This Week: AT&T Analyst & Investor Day
Dec 09, 2024
This Week: The Dish/TPG Deal Falls Through, T-Mobile Bids on BEAD
Dec 02, 2024
This Week: Titans of Prepaid with Nancy Clark of Verizon Value
Nov 25, 2024
Ep 218: Q3 Earnings Recap
Nov 18, 2024
This Week: ZTE's Perspective on 5G Across the Globe with Daryl Schoolar
Nov 11, 2024
This Week: AI's Impact on Telecom Customer Service wth Anthony Goonetilleke of Amdocs
Nov 04, 2024
This Week: Verizon Q3 Earnings, Sell Side Analyst Day
Oct 28, 2024
This Week: Verizon Spends $1B on Spectrum from US Cellular
Oct 21, 2024
This Week: CBRS and Mid-Band: What is the Optimal Solution?
Oct 14, 2024
This Week: The next chapter for Dish?
Oct 07, 2024
This Week: Another Lifeline for Dish
Sep 30, 2024
This Week: The Road Ahead for T-Mobile
Sep 23, 2024
This Week: Cell Sites in Space - Live from Cape Canaveral with Chris Sambar of AT&T
Sep 16, 2024
This Week: Verizon Innovates in Satellite Comms with Srini Kalapala
Sep 09, 2024
This Week: The Value Segment Heats Up
Sep 02, 2024
This Week: Pulling Back the Curtain on Mint Mobile
Aug 26, 2024
This Week: Earnings Wrapup, Pixel Review Controversy, Industry Exec Updates
Aug 19, 2024
This Week: Disruption and the War between Cable and Wireless
Aug 12, 2024
This Week: All about Starlink
Aug 05, 2024
This Week: Earnings from AT&T, Charter, Comcast & Verizon
Jul 29, 2024
This Week: Will the FCC Mandate Handset Unlocks?
Jul 22, 2024
This Week: What will Become of T-Mobile's 800 MHz Spectrum?
Jul 15, 2024
This Week: The End of Chevron Defference, What does it mean for Telcom?
Jul 08, 2024
This Week: Verizon Rebrands: New logo, New plans & Handset deals, Verizon Access and More
Jul 01, 2024
This Week: Digital Transformation World: from AI to APIs
Jun 24, 2024
This Week: Microsoft Azure for Operators Shakeup, Carlos Slim buys part of BT
Jun 17, 2024
This Week: Best Plans for the Best Customers, NVidia Dabbles in OpenRan
Jun 09, 2024
This Week: T-Mobile Buys A Portion of US Cellular
Jun 02, 2024
This Week: 5G Factory Insights with Mitch Klaassen, T-Mobile raises legacy rates, the march towards convergence
May 27, 2024
This Week: Business Fixed Wireless Trends with Jake Hawkridge
May 20, 2024
This Week: The State of Broadband with Jonathan Chaplin
May 13, 2024
This Week: USCC Earnings, Mint Joins the T-Mobile Family
May 06, 2024
This Week: Q1 '24 Earnings Recap
Apr 29, 2024
This Week: Data Caps for FWA, Comcast Goes Prepaid
Apr 22, 2024
Tihs Week: Spectrum Mobile's New Anytime Upgrade Plan, Roger gets stuck in traffic
Apr 15, 2024
This Week: Here we go again - Net Neutrality is back in the news
Apr 08, 2024
This Week: Can FWA Help to Bridge the Digital Divide?
Apr 01, 2024
This Week: Verizon 5G event, Apple Antitrust
Mar 25, 2024
This Week: Verizon B2B Analyst Event
Mar 17, 2024
This Week: Dish, USCC & Altice Earnings, T-Mobile turns on more 2.5GHz
Mar 11, 2024
This Week: Thoughts on Mobile World Congress 2024
Mar 03, 2024
This Week: AT&T Outage, Dish Reaches 200M with VONR, Does Retail Still Matter?
Feb 25, 2024
This Week: Comcast Converge
Feb 19, 2024
This Week: Verizon's Sell Side Analyst Event
Feb 12, 2024
This Week: Q4 Earnings Recap, Roger Gets a Vision Pro
Feb 05, 2024
This Week: 12GHz Spectrum Update with Jeff Blum, Chip Pickering and Michael O'Rielly
Jan 28, 2024
This Week: Tis the Season.... for Price Increases
Jan 22, 2024
This Week: CES Impressions, Device Retail in Wireless
Jan 15, 2024
This Week: The Need for Speed - Broadband and Wireless Connections get even Faster
Jan 08, 2024
This Week: 2023 Telecom Year in Review
Jan 01, 2024
This Week: Lessons in Leadership from Denny Strigl
Dec 25, 2023
This Week: All about Broadband and Wireless Net Promoter Score
Dec 18, 2023
This Week: The State of OpenRAN with Bejoy Pankajakshan of Mavenir
Dec 11, 2023
This Week: New Spectrum Policy??
Dec 04, 2023
This Week: Net Neutrality Back in the News
Nov 27, 2023
This Week: Innovations in Telecom as a Service with Nico Girard of Oxio
Nov 20, 2023
This Week: The Status of OpenRAN with Alok Shah of Samsung Networks
Nov 13, 2023
This Week: Cable's Continued Growth in Wireless, Verizon Names a Permanent CFO
Nov 05, 2023
This Week: Q3 Earnings Spectacular- AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast & Charter
Oct 30, 2023
This Week: Joe Russo on the Future of Verizon's Network
Oct 23, 2023
This Week: Impressions of the 5G Americas Event with the Recon Team and Peter Linder of Ericsson
Oct 16, 2023
This Week: The Future of Distributed Cellular Networks with Frank Mong of Nova Labs
Oct 09, 2023
This Week: MobileX Launches in Walmart
Oct 02, 2023
This Week: The Dish 800MHz Spectrum Saga Continues, The First 5G Call from Space, Verizon C-Band Deployment Details
Sep 25, 2023
This Week: T-Mobile gets more 600 MHz Spectrum
Sep 18, 2023
This Week: Dish and T-Mobile Disagree Over 14 MHz of Spectrum, Verizon Announces New FWA Plans
Sep 04, 2023
This Week: The State of Prepaid with John Dwyer of AT&T
Aug 28, 2023
This Week: Remaining C-Band Spectrum Clears Early
Aug 21, 2023
This Week: Dish and Echostar joining forces, Changes at Rakuten Mobile and the Future of OpenRAN
Aug 14, 2023
This Week: US Cellular for Sale?
Aug 07, 2023
This Week: Q2 Earnings Bonanza
Jul 31, 2023
This Week: Our View into the Streaming Wars
Jul 24, 2023
This Week: All About Fixed Wireless Access
Jul 17, 2023
This Week: Comparing Wireless CEOs - Which Strategies are Working?
Jul 10, 2023
This Week: More C-Band Mess with the FAA, China Allocates 6 GHz to 5G and 6G
Jul 03, 2023
This Week: Owners Economics Across Network Types: MNO, MVNO and Hybrid
Jun 26, 2023
This Week: Dish Hits an Important Milestone, but What Does the Future Look Like?
Jun 19, 2023
This Week: Apple Vision Pro - Has AR/VR Finally Arrived?
Jun 12, 2023
This Week: The Happiest and Unhappiest Broadband Customers
Jun 05, 2023
This Week: Why the FCC's Spectrum Authority Matters
May 29, 2023
This Week: The Future of Fiber with Gigapower CEO Bill Hogg
May 22, 2023
This Week: News from the ConnectX conference, Gigapower deal closes
May 15, 2023
This Week: Closing out Q1 Earnings, Mint and the DoJ
May 08, 2023
This Week: Q1 Earnings roundup - Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast & Charter
May 01, 2023
This Week: T-Mobile's New Uncarrier Event, AT&T releases Q1 Earnings
Apr 24, 2023
This Week: Inside Verizon's New Innovation Lab
Apr 17, 2023
This Week: Verizon Expands C-Band Coverage; An In-Depth Look at the National Broadband Map
Apr 10, 2023
This Week: Connected America Takes Off
Apr 03, 2023
This Week: Did Huawei and Deutsche Telekom try to evade US Sanctions?
Mar 27, 2023
This Week: Mint Sells to T-Mobile
Mar 20, 2023
This Week: Value vs Premium Players in Wireless - a Deep Dive on ARPU & ARPA
Mar 13, 2023
This Week: Another Shakeup at Verizon
Mar 06, 2023
This Week: Dish Makes Progress, but is it Enough?
Feb 27, 2023
This Week: Neville Ray Retires, Xfinity follows Spectrum's Lead
Feb 20, 2023
This Week: Changing the MVNO Game with Peter Adderton of MobileX
Feb 13, 2023
This Week: Q4 Telecom Earnings in Review
Feb 06, 2023
This Week: Driving Growth by Putting Customers at the Center with Jenifer Robertson of AT&T
Jan 30, 2023
This Week: T-Mobile Hacked.... Again
Jan 23, 2023
This Week: Leadership Shakeup at Dish, Is Mint Mobile for Sale?
Jan 16, 2023
This Week: Carriers Preview '23 Strategy & Q4 results
Jan 09, 2023
This Week: 2022 Year in Review & Trends for 2023
Jan 02, 2023
This Week: Getting Down to Business- The Wireless B2B Landscape
Dec 26, 2022
This Week: Charter Investor Day 2022 Recap - How Cable will Compete with Fiber & FWA
Dec 19, 2022
This Week: Leadership Changes in Verizon's Consumer Group
Dec 12, 2022
This Week: The Future of Spectrum Licensing with Nick Ludlum
Dec 05, 2022
This Week: Will eSIM Increase Wireless Competition?
Nov 28, 2022
This Week: Diving Deep into the FCC's New Broadband Maps
Nov 21, 2022
This Week: How might Electoral Results Impact Tech and Telecom Policy?
Nov 14, 2022
This Week: Q3 Earnings Roundup- Dish, US Cellular & Altice
Nov 07, 2022
This Week: T-Mobile Earnings, FWA Growth and First Responders
Oct 31, 2022
This Week: A Tale of Two Carriers - Verizon and AT&T Report Q3
Oct 24, 2022
This Week: How to Charge for New Business Models in 5G with Marc Price
Oct 17, 2022
This Week: How do Wireless Carriers Respond to Hurricanes and other Natural Disasters?
Oct 10, 2022
This Week: Live from Mobile World Congress with Mike Dano
Oct 03, 2022
This Week: Verizon Rolls out a New Prepaid Brand
Sep 26, 2022
This Week: Satellite Technology and Phones with Peter Rysavy
Sep 19, 2022
This Week: iPhone 14 Promotional Environment with Patricio Paucar
Sep 12, 2022
This Week: Q2 Predictions Recap, iPhone Launch, Starlink in the News
Sep 05, 2022
This Week: The FCC's Spectrum Auction Authority ; Policy Considerations with Jeff Westling
Aug 29, 2022
This Week: How Should We Use 12GHz? with Michael O'Rielly
Aug 22, 2022
This Week: Impact of Economy on Telecom Industry
Aug 08, 2022
This Week: Verizon C-Band Update
Aug 01, 2022