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When a Competitor Moves Into Your Market: What Really Happens Inside Your ISP
If you’ve ever run an ISP, you know the moment it happens. A new competitor rolls into town, and suddenly your phone...
Bandwidth Podcast
The most honest podcast in broadband.
Real stories. Straight talk. No buzzwords.
Running an ISP means you deal with late-night alerts, tangled infrastructure, burnout, and constant pressure to keep communities connected. And yet, most of what's out there glosses over the hard parts.
Bandwidth is different.
It's a podcast for people who do the work, build networks, fix outages, lead small teams, and try to stay ahead of the next shift in tech, policy, or customer expectations. In every episode, you'll hear from folks who've lived the chaos and kept going.
WHAT TO EXPECT
What Listeners Can Expect
Whether you’re managing installs, directing network ops, running support, or leading strategy, here’s what you’ll get.
No jargon. No filler. We skip the corporate speak and get to what matters. Story-driven conversations! Each episode feels like a conversation at the diner after a long day in the field—direct, honest, and surprisingly useful. Segments that go beyond talk. Hot takes in Love It or Hate It, worst-case scenarios in What If, and straight questions that get real answers.
Why This Show Exists
Because most broadband conversations skip the hard stuff. Because policy summaries don't help when your field truck just rolled into a bad install. Because leading through complexity is easier when you know someone else has done it, too. Bandwidth was built for the people, keeping the signal alive and the business running.
If you've ever:
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Lost sleep over an outage or staffing gap
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Argued over alert thresholds
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Had to make the budget work when the tech doesn’t
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Wondered if other ISPs are dealing with the same pain
This show is for you.
Meet the hosts
Rick Seemann | Georgette Lopez-Aguado | Paul Dasbach | Larry Weidig
Operators, founders, tech leads, and longtime ISP leaders who’ve worn every hat—from field boots to boardrooms.
Podcast Episodes
2 min read
Outsourcing, Call Centers, and AI: Scaling Without Losing Your Identity
When ISPs grow, they eventually face the same question: What do we keep in-house, and what do we hand off? Outsourcing...
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When Culture Becomes a Punchline: Protecting Your ISP’s Values Through Growth
When you're in the early days of building an ISP, culture isn’t always top of mind. You’re focused on solving a...
3 min read
Building Better Broadband Starts With Building Better Partnerships
In broadband, we like to say we’re connecting communities—but what does that really mean if we’re not also connecting...
3 min read
When the Infrastructure Breaks, So Do Communities. That’s Why We Show Up.
It’s one thing to fix fiber. It’s another to show up for a community that’s just lived through crisis. Imagine losing...
4 min read
Data That Doesn’t Get Used Is Just Clutter
Let’s skip the buzzwords. If data isn’t helping your team fix issues faster, answer questions better, or see problems...
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