Carrier 2.0 goes beyond the headlines to uncover the future of telecom. Hosted by Fierce Network’s Steve Saunders, the show brings you inside the minds of the executives rewriting the rules of connectivity. Each episode delivers unfiltered conversations with industry leaders as they confront today’s biggest challenges, share hard-won lessons, and offer bold predictions about what comes next. From 5G and AI to the cloud and open networks, Carrier 2.0 cuts through the hype to reveal the real signals shaping tomorrow’s connected world.
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Signup to Generate a PitchCarrier 2.0 goes beyond the headlines to uncover the future of telecom. Hosted by Fierce Network’s Steve Saunders, the show brings you inside the minds of the executives rewriting the rules of connectivity. Each episode delivers unfiltered conversations with industry leaders as they confront today’s biggest challenges, share hard-won lessons, and offer bold predictions about what comes next.
Recent episodes include "Extensibility at Scale" (16 September 2026, 9 minutes), "Industry Already Knows the Future of Networking" (24 August 2026, 8 minutes), and "Trust Is the New Perimeter" (3 August 2026, 9 minutes).
Carrier 2.0 publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 11 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for Carrier 2.0 is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Carrier 2.0 requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Carrier 2.0's contact route on record: verified email.
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Carrier 2.0 is a technology podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Episode #6
Building one successful deployment proves a technology. Building a thousand proves a business. In this episode of Carrier 2.0, Steve Saunders explores one of the communications industry's biggest challenges: how...
If you want to understand the future of networking, don't just look to Silicon Valley. Look inside the factories, utilities and critical infrastructure environments where technology simply cannot afford to fail. In this...
Episode #4
<p>As AI reshapes enterprise networks, traditional security models are reaching their limits. The old assumption that networking and security are separate disciplines is giving way to a new reality: trust must be built...
Episode #3
<p>As agentic AI moves from experimentation to deployment, the conversation is shifting beyond intelligence to something even more fundamental: governance.</p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, Steve Saunders explores...
Episode #3
As agentic AI moves from experimentation to deployment, the conversation is shifting beyond intelligence to something even more fundamental: governance. In this episode of Carrier 2.0, Steve Saunders explores what...
Episode #2
<p>As AI becomes embedded into critical infrastructure, the debate around sovereignty is rapidly moving from policy discussion to business necessity.</p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, Steve Saunders explores one of...
Episode #2
As AI becomes embedded into critical infrastructure, the debate around sovereignty is rapidly moving from policy discussion to business necessity. In this episode of Carrier 2.0, Steve Saunders explores one of the...
Episode #1
<p>Carrier 2.0 returns for Season 2 with a defining question for the telecom industry: what kind of service provider survives the next decade?</p><p>Hosted by Steve Saunders, this opening episode explores the strategic...
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, host Steve Saunders argues that the real competitive advantage in the AI era isn’t hype, scale, or autonomy, it’s execution.</p><p>As hyperscalers dominate...
Episode #7
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, host Steve Saunders reframes artificial intelligence not as a product or application, but as a full-stack systems problem spanning power, cooling, water...
Episode #6
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, host Steve Saunders looks at how carriers are moving beyond AI hype and into execution. Drawing on new research from Fierce Network and interviews with...
<p>Episode Summary</p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, host Steve Saunders examines how AI is reshaping security for carriers and widening the threat surface. Cisco’s Tom Gillis and Martin Lund explain why...
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, host Steve Saunders explores what it really takes to build an AI driven network. In a rapid expert montage, Cisco’s Guru Shenoy, Rana El Desouky Kazamel...
<p><b>Episode Summary</b></p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, host Steve Saunders talks with Masum Mir, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Provider Mobility Business, about the next wave of...
<p>Episode Summary</p><p>In this episode of Carrier 2.0, host Steve Saunders talks with Santiago ‘Yago’ Tenorio, CTO of Verizon, about the defining forces shaping the next generation of carriers. From how telecoms can...
<p>In this first episode of Carrier 2.0, host Steve Saunders sits down with Ryan Asdourian, EVP and Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Lumen, to discuss how Lumen is reinventing itself as a technology...
Carrier 2.0
<p>Carrier 2.0 is the podcast where Fierce Network’s Steve Saunders sits down with the people shaping the future of telecom. From AI and 5G to culture, strategy, and bold predictions, each episode cuts through the noise...
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