This Week: The Telecom Value Story, The FCC Router Ban Threatens a New Digital Divide

The Week with Roger · Mar 30, 2026 · 5m

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner unpack this week’s top telecom news, including the FCC’s new foreign router ban, the digital divide in switching, and how telecom delivers value amid an inflationary environment.

00:00 Episode intro

00:26 Effects of the foreign router ban

02:21 Router ownership may represent a new digital divide

03:34 Telecom has bucked the affordability crisis

05:00 Value has increased regardless of price

05:38 Episode wrap-up

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, routers, FCC, chips, China, supply…