Linda Hardesty

Linda Hardesty is Chief Analyst, Communications Technologies, for Fierce Network Research, covering wireless and wireline networks, broadband and communications service providers. She oversaw broadband coverage as former Editor in Chief of Fierce Telecom and Executive Editor for the award-winning Fierce Network. She's been a trade journalist since the mid-1990s covering the business and technology of telecommunications networks. Her editorial content for Fierce Network won a 2024 Eddie and Ozzie Award in the Planned or On-location Coverage category for Fierce Network's 2024 reporting from Mobile World Congress. Prior to Fierce, she wrote for SDxCentral, Communications Technology/CableFax, and Cable World.