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Joseph Upton

Joseph Upton, Pres/CEO, Kabel-X USAPres/CEO
Kabel-X USA
Member of the Telecommunications Council

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)


Employment History
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

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COX Communications, Inc.: Bellwether to the Bells? | 06-24-2008
Analysis of: Cox Flirts With Fiber | www.lightreading.com
Author: Joseph Upton, Pres/CEO, Kabel-X USA

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...

Love is 50mbs FIOS Data for Working From Home, etc.: Hear That AT&T? | 06-19-2008
Analysis of: Verizon Takes 50-Mbit/s FIOS to the Masses | www.lightreading.com
Author: Joseph Upton, Pres/CEO, Kabel-X USA

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 FTTP: On Target VS. Qwest/ATT FTTN: On Target? | 06-17-2008
Analysis of: Verizon Winning FIOS Bet | cable.tmcnet.com
Author: Joseph Upton, Pres/CEO, Kabel-X USA

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...

Is Competitive Triple Play Bringing CATV MSO Prices Down? | 06-17-2008
Analysis of: Greenlight Prices Attract Customers | www.wilsontimes.com
Author: Joseph Upton, Pres/CEO, Kabel-X USA

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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