“My next guest needs to introduction”... James Crawshaw has been a prolific writer, researcher, and consultant for the Telco industry as long as the modern Telco has existed. In this episode, we talk about the history of technology, what changes and what doesn’t, and what the future holds for investors, consumers, and tech entrepreneurs alike.

In this in-person episode at the Broadband Forum Summer 2026 Member Meeting and BASe Tech Summit in Milan, I finally got Madhura Paduvalli on the show to talk about her life as a CPE engineer and volunteering in the standards world. With some special shout-outs to CDRouter and the team at QA Cafe!

In this episode I got to talk with one of our longest and most favorite CDRouter customers, Carl Wuyts of Telenet, who has been working with broadband gateways and Wi-Fi as both a vendor and a service provider for a long time. We talk about struggles with deploying broadband, customer experience, and more!

In this episode, Ann Olivo from Silicon Labs, who is also the VP of Marketing for Thread Group and Vice Chair of Marketing for Matter at the Connectivity Standards Alliance, have a great conversation about marketing people involved in networking standardization, how important it is for translating technology into value, and why it’s a labor of love.

In this episode, I chat with Jason Thompson of TELUS, one of the major Canadian ISPs, about the customer Internet experience, what ISPs are doing with new tech, and why connecting real people and making their lives better is what broadband networking is all about.

Another person I love to work with that is as passionate about standardization as I am, Cristina Radelscu-Banu and I sit down and talk about the reality of deployed networks vs. bleeding edge, and taking a high-level view of technology.

I have known so many great people who have not just made a difference in the industry, but a difference in my life, and Gavin Young from Vodafone is no exception. In this episode, we discuss a holistic view of technology, the era of smart CPE and smart networks, and how operators face an exhausting goal of ensuring things “just work” for everyone, all the time.

Listeners know that I love diving into the real stories behind who makes your Wi-Fi and Internet work. I can think of few more interesting stories than Aleksandar Radivojša from Serbia Broadband (now Yettel). In this episode we fly all over the map talking about language, being “in between the hammer and the horseshoe” of CPE quality and customer satisfaction, and how even bees have their own network protocols.