The Week with Roger

This Week: Verizon's Yago Tenorio on Designing the Future of 6G

The Week with Roger

Show Notes

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner are joined by Yago Tenorio, SVP and CTO at Verizon, to discuss the coming of 6G and the future of networks, as well as exciting real world use cases happening right now.

00:00 Episode intro 00:24 6G Innovation Forum overview 01:21 Lessons learned from 5G 03:59 What players are needed for 6G? 05:24 Actual test cases for 6G 07:34 Spectrum issues and ISAC 08:48 Future network infrastructure and monetization 12:44 6G Innovation Forum developments 13:20 Episode wrap-up

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Yago Tenorio, Verizon, 6G, 5G, FWA, drones, crowd detection, AI, LLMs, wearables, ISAC, network, spectrum, Google, devices, data centers, latency

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