Joseph Upton
Pres/CEOKabel-X USA
Joby Upton is the President of Upton Consulting and the Pres/CEO of Kabel-X USA. He is experienced in wireline, wireless and emerging broadband services and construction and outside plant engineering. He is knowledgeable in products and broadband services from AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Century Tel, Windstream, Tellabs, Alcatel-Lucent, Dycom, Mastec, Vyyo, Time Warner, Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Adtran, ADC, Embarq, Sprint-Nextel, and Quanta Services. Mr. Upton is also knowledgeable in AT&T's U-verse/Homezone and FIOS broadband plans from Verizon and equipment vendors associated with telecommunications, data, wireless, and video transmission systems. Previously, he was the General Manager- Supply Chain and Network at BellSouth/ATT. He has also held management positions as an emerging market (FTTX) expert at Pirelli Fiber Cable Manufacturing and as a business consultant for OFS Brightwave. (This is me - Update Profile)
| 2007 - present | Pres/CEO Kabel-X USA |
|---|---|
| 2003 - present | President Upton Consulting |
| 2000 - 2003 | Director of Major Accounts/FTTH Pirelli Communications Cables and Systems LLCInc |
| 1996 - 1999 | Gen Mgr Supply Chain Mgt BellSouth Telecommunications Inc |
| 1990 - 1996 | Network General Mgr BellSouth Telecommunications Inc |
| 1987 - 1990 | Division Mgr-Equipment Engineering Support BellSouth Telecommunications Inc |
GLG Study Groups with Joseph Upton(?)
| Study Group Name | Members |
|---|---|
| VOIP Experts (North America) | 218 |
| Wimax Experts (North America) | 114 |
| Telecom Experts who are GLG Leaders,Scholars and Educators | 111 |
| 3G Handsets Experts | 180 |
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Analyses by Joseph Upton(?)
Whoever gets fiber to the customer first wins, or whoever gets future-proofed revenue-producing services to the customer wins, however one wants to say it. Once the CATV MSOs begin seriously investigating FTTP, PON or other fiber-based final customer loop decisions, things are heating up on the...
AT&T's Uverse is doing well, people are buying it, and VOILA! Along comes VZ overbuilding T, AND selling 5 times the AT&T data speed to customers. This puts CATV MSOs and AT&T/Qwest and anyone else not doing FTTP in a quandry. Do they continue to build hybrid fiber-copper...
Verizon appears to be on target to make their financial and customer passings targets with their FIOS FTTP system overbuild. ATT and Qwest are building similar, but not the same FTTNode systems that incorporate copper in the solution. So, who has the better, most salable, more competitive...
The pricing of CATV MSOs has been holding steady in the face of heavy intrusion from both RBOCs and other interlopers, such as CLECs and municipal broadband providers. The main implication of this article and analysis is that perhaps we will begin to see price erosion on the CATV MSO side...
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