ABOUT
About Digitel Talk.
A podcast about the people using telecoms and technology for good and the stories behind them.
The podcast
Conversations with the people shaping connected life.
Digitel Talk is a long and short-form interview podcast about the ideas, people and technologies quietly rewiring how we live and work with a particular focus on telecoms as a force for good.
Each episode fits into at least two of the categories of impact, leaders and innovation. The majority of our episodes are individuals talking about what they and their companies are doing but occasionally a panel discussion from industry experts. We let the conversations run as long as they need to.
It’s made for operators, regulators, founders, engineers, and the curious listeners who want to understand what’s actually changing beneath the headlines.
How it started
A thought that wouldn't go away.
Digitel Talk began as an idea back in 2023. As a prestigious GloMo Awards judge Ian was involved with entries in the Tech4Good category and saw the amazing work that was being done to make the world a better place. However, there wasn’t a platform to share what these companies and people were doing. So that’s where Digitel Talk came in.
Without much expectation the first few episodes were recorded back in 2024 and listeners tuned in. Within a month, listeners were writing in with stories of their own and more guests. Series one was where we discovered . Season two is the response to season one.
The format hasn’t changed: one guest, one focused theme, however long it takes.
IMPACT & REACH
The show, in numbers
100+
Countries
5,042+
Total Downloads
5★
Average Review Score
75+
Episodes
Partnering with events such as Connected Britain by Total Telecom, Network X by Informa and the ITU AI for Good Summit with an audience of operators, regulators, and technologists across more than one hundred countries.
The host
Ian Ginn - listener first, host second.
Ian has been in the Telco industry for 30+ years and has seen it change and evolve over the years. If you ever have an encounterIan spent fifteen years covering technology for magazines that no longer exist and one or two that still do — the rise of the social web, the platform wars, and the slow dismantling of the open internet. Somewhere along the way he got tired of 800-word answers to questions that needed an hour.
He started recording the after-interviews — the parts that didn’t fit into a column — and Digitel Talk grew out of that habit.
Today he records from a small wood-paneled room above a bookshop, answers his own email, and edits his own audio. He’s most interested in the conversations he hasn’t had yet.