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Jon Adams

Director- Wireless Technology and Strategy
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Member of the Technology Council

Jon Adams is a Director - Wireless Technology and Strategy at Freescale Semiconductor Inc, a company specializing in semiconductors ASIC. He specializes in wireless, including ZigBee, WI-Fi, WiMax, Ultra Wideband, NFC/RFID and Cellular technologies. He is experienced in circuit-level implementation, regulatory policy, and market strategy in the handheld, mobile connectivity, multimedia, industrial, residential control and monitoring markets. He is on the Board of Directors of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization, the Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council, is Freescale's delegate to the cellular-operator-led Open Mobile Terminal Platform organization, and the handset-OEM-led Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance. He is knowledgeable in the automotive, cellular, embedded control and network infrastructure markets. Mr. Adams has recently been a voting member of various IEEE802 groups and was recent Vice-Chair of the ZigBee Alliance. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
2004 - present Director- Wireless Technology and Strategy
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
2000 - 2004 Director, Systems Engineering
Motorola
1990 - 1998 Seawinds SES/NSCAT Project Manager and Cognizant E
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1983 - 1990 Cognizant Engineer
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1983 - 2000 Project Manager 2
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Verizon Stupid? No - Apple Smart. | 07-25-2007
Analysis of: Was Verizon Really Wrong To Pass On The iPhone? | telecom.seekingalpha.com
Author: Jon Adams, Director- Wireless Technology and Strategy, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

Verizon's decision to pass on the iPhone is a pragmatic battlefield decision and delaying tactic, hoping that Apple's impact on the cellular industry's walled garden concept will be minimal.   AT&T's assent to hosting the iPhone and Apple will bring valuable short-term growth, but in the...

AT&T Adds Prepay Data and Messaging - So What? | 06-15-2007
Analysis of: AT&T Rolls Out GoPhone Pay As You Go Feature Packages | www.att.com
Author: Jon Adams, Director- Wireless Technology and Strategy, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

Why did it take AT&T so long? Billing should not be rocket science. The demand for prepay voice is well proven, SMS has been a winner for a long time; data is the biggest unknown, but MMS (photo and media) messaging could be a driver to push data volumes, but the price seems high.

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