The Five Nine

Feb 26 2025 65 ep. 24 mins 7

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Join host Diana Goovaerts and other Fierce Network editors as they explore the stories behind some of the hottest topics in tech and telecom. Want the inside scoop on broadband, wireless, artificial intelligence and cloud? You'll find it here.

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The Five Nine: MWC 2025 pre-show bingo board

Feb 26 2025 12 mins

The hotels are booked, the bags are packed and at the end of this week, the flights will be boarded. But what will we find when we get there? That’s the question we’re going to tackle today and the answers just might surprise you. With me are Fierce Network’s editor-in-chief Liz Coyne, executive editor Monica Alleven, Senior Reporter Dan Jones and our Research gur

The Five Nine: Frontier’s CEO talks coming back from the brink

Feb 20 2025 33 mins

This week, we delve into the nitty gritty of one of the biggest turnaround stories in telecom in recent years: that of Frontier Communications. Frontier recently made headlines when Verizon agreed to pay $20 billion in cash to acquire the company as part of a bid to drastically expand its fiber footprint. That deal is now expected to close in Q1 of 2026. But while it&rs

The Five Nine: Bending the knee to the sovereign cloud

Feb 13 2025 23 mins

This week, we explore the rise of sovereign clouds across the globe. You’ve probably heard of GDPR by now, or at least data privacy. And while sovereignty is sort of in a similar sphere, it’s more about data direction than privacy. We sat down with Vultr’s Kevin Cochrane to examine what sovereignty means, how it’s accomplished and the impac

The Five Nine: The birth – and death – of ideas in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO

Feb 06 2025 33 mins

This week, we sat down to pull back the curtain on the idea factory chugging along behind the scenes at one of the largest hyperscalers: Google Cloud. CTO Will Grannis heads up Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO, or OCTO, which is comprised of senior Google technology experts and former enterprise CTOs. Together, this team sifts through the company’s big ideas to fi

The Five Nine: Alianza’s CEO talks what’s next for the mobile core

Jan 31 2025 25 mins

This week, we’re taking a look at what the future holds for operators when it comes to the mobile core. The march to the cloud has been a steady but rather slow journey for operators. And nowhere is this more true than for mobile core services. But that could soon change, thanks to a recent deal Alianza struck to acquire Metaswitch from Microsoft. Here

Scaling Up: Texas A&M's 5G Expansion with CommScope's Tech Expertise [Sponsored]

Dec 02 2024 20 mins

Explore Texas A&M University System’s 5G journey as they partner with CommScope to elevate campus connectivity, enhance student life, and boost game-day experiences.

What does Trump mean for telecom and tech policy?

Nov 21 2024 31 mins

This week, we’re taking a look at what the recent U.S. election means for telecom and tech policy in the years ahead. Donald Trump just won a second term in the White House, but this go around could be very different from the first thanks in part to the entrance of new key characters - like Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy – into the equation. To sift through the implications

Zeroing in on Zero Trust and the cloud security landscape

Nov 15 2024 21 mins

This week, we’re venturing into the thorny territory that is cloud security. In a newly issued security report, Google Cloud noted that new tools are lowering barriers to entry for malicious actors, and will make it easier for them to launch attacks in the year ahead. The report also noted that something as seemingly small as a compromised identity can have an outsized impact on

What happens to the network when AI moves to the edge? Featuring Zayo

Nov 07 2024 22 mins

This week, we’re returning to the intersection of AI and network transport. We recently spoke with Lumen Technologies CEO Kate Johnson about how AI is impacting the network, demanding ever-larger pipes for data transport and training. That’s, of course, a boon for a company like Lumen, which has now signed partnership deals with cloud companies and AI pioneers Amazon, Microsof

Here’s why private networks have become so popular

Oct 31 2024 20 mins

This week, we're getting a behind the scenes look at the private networks that power our ports and industrial campuses and keep us connected both underground, in the subway, and inside stadiums. As consumers, we're used to being connected to sprawling cellular networks from the likes of AT& T and Verizon in the U. S., BT, and Deutsche Telekom in Europe. SK Telecom, Telstra, Vod