Business disruption, telco transformation and big-league bowling. Crack open a cold one and listen to our podcast chat with former CenturyLink explainer-of-things Bill Walker.

Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief

June 28, 2019

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Podcast Interview: IT & Telco Vet Bill Walker

Bill Walker, former senior director of strategy and advancement at CenturyLink, is probably reading this on his phone, in a bowling alley.

Here at Light Reading, we know Bill as a professional explainer-of-all-things virtualization and cloud. He's a good interview subject and we look forward to hearing what he'll do next. "I want to work for someone with the right vision and the right opportunity," he explained to Light Reading earlier this week.

But Bill will go bowling. A lot. He's a card-carrying member of the Professional Bowlers Association. And, yes, after we talk telco stuff, Bill helps us bowling novices with some tips on how we can look a little less ridiculous when we go on our next corporate outing at the lanes.

As a former engineer at Oracle and Sun Microsystems, Bill has a background in the IT side of things and understands the challenges of working in a big telco. Listen to the whole podcast to find out his fresh-from-CenturyLink thoughts on what telcos are good at, what needs to change in telco culture and what kinds of companies he sees becoming bigger competitors to the traditional network operators.

The Light Reading podcast is available on Google Play, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and SoundCloud.

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About the Author(s)

Phil Harvey

Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

Phil Harvey has been a Light Reading writer and editor for more than 18 years combined. He began his second tour as the site's chief editor in April 2020.

His interest in speed and scale means he often covers optical networking and the foundational technologies powering the modern Internet.

Harvey covered networking, Internet infrastructure and dot-com mania in the late 90s for Silicon Valley magazines like UPSIDE and Red Herring before joining Light Reading (for the first time) in late 2000.

After moving to the Republic of Texas, Harvey spent eight years as a contributing tech writer for D CEO magazine, producing columns about tech advances in everything from supercomputing to cellphone recycling.

Harvey is an avid photographer and camera collector – if you accept that compulsive shopping and "collecting" are the same.

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