
Explain to Shane
Hosted by Shane and Shane Tews · AEI Podcasts
4.9from 22 ratings
- 153
- Episodes
- 54
- Transcribed
- 22
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Explain to Shane
Technology has become increasingly important to policy debates, but these debates won’t be productive without an understanding of how the technology in question works. AEI Visiting Fellow Shane Tews interviews tech industry experts to explain how the apps, services, and structures of today's information technology systems work, and how they shape our social and economic life.
- Publisher
- AEI Podcasts
- Category
- government · news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Jul 2020
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
54 of 153 episodes have a transcript.

8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Can Broadband Policy Keep Up with Competition? (with Sam Love)
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I think that's kind of where we've been focused in terms of the landscape overall as an industry, the big three, AT&T, Timo, and Verizon, who I'm sure we'll talk about a little bit over the course of this conversation, they're moving into space we've traditionally been in, which is at-home broadband. They're offering really competitive fixed wireless products. And we're now, and I keep saying historic cable industry, because we're moving into the wireless game. And collectively, our industry is now the fourth largest mobile carrier in the country. So It's no longer just about cable for us. […]
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- Sam Love
- David Ulevitch
- Josh Tabish
- Benjamin Alarie
- Milton Mueller
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- 5.0 / 5
- 18 ratings
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- 4.5 / 5
- 4 ratings
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- 85
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Shane and Shane Tews host the show. Published by AEI Podcasts.
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