Study Group: Telecom/Cable Service Purchasers, Evaluators, and Pricing Trend Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 199
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Telecom Strategic Visions
Stephen Sutkowski is the President of Telecom Strategic Visions, a consultant firm. He has working knowledge of business processes (service activation, provisioning, service assurance, and customer care), network functional and performance requirements, evaluation and analysis of suppliers for routing,...
Michael CotePresident
Michael Cote
Michael Cote is an Independent Telecommunications Consultant. He specializes in enterprise mobility, sales and distribution strategy, online strategy, smart phones, and customer care and billing. Mr. Cote has over 15 years of sales, marketing, and operational experience in the telecommunications industry....
Samuel GreenholtzPrincipal
Telecom Pragmatics
Sam Greenholtz is the Co-Founder and Principal of Telecom Pragmatics, Inc., a consulting and market research company specializing in the telecom market. He has expertise inc FTTx, optical networking, VoIP, ethernet and wireless technologies including WiMAX, 3G, CDMA and EV-DO. Prior to joining the consulting...
Chief Executive Officer
Alpha Media
James Meyers is the Chief Executive Officer at Alpha Media, an entertainment media company with international sales and distribution operations, US sales and distribution operations, cable television assets, plus international production operations. He is responsible for managing corporate strategy...
George KaadiVP & Chief Information Officer
SOMPO JAPAN INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA
George Kaadi is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Sompo Japan Insurance Company of America. Prior to Sompo he was CTO at AboveNet, co-location and Optical Fiber provider. Prior to AboveNet he was CIO at Marvel Entertainment Group "Publishing and Studios". Prior to Marvel, Mr. Kaadi...
Chief Information Officer and President
Austin CiO Partners
Roland Icard is the Chief Information Officer and President at Austin CIO Partners, a strategy consulting firm. He specializes in technology planning, project portfolio management, IT governance, application portfolio optimization, enterprise architecture, compliance management, business continuity...
Sr. Director of IT and Facilities
GENESIS MICROCHIP INC.
Paul Massie is the Senior Director of Information Technology at Genesis Microchip, a fabless semiconductor firm with 1,200 employees. He is responsible for all IT functions at a growing US$ 300MM company based in multiple countries. Previously, Mr. Massie was the Director of IT Infrastructure at Openwave...
CIO
JOHANSON DIELECTRICS, INC
Ralph Behar is the Chief Information Officer of Johanson Dielectrics, a discrete components manufacturer with 10,000 employees. He is an acknowledged authority on mini-computers (HP3000), security, data storage, network products and services. He has held senior IT positions at Johanson Dielectrics,...
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1. Ciena has been getting 10 percent or more of its business from Sprint. 2. One may as well say that Ciena’s DWDM boxes are going to be in the carrier’s network forever. 3. The deployment of more Cisco Systems CRS-1s at Sprint will probably result in additional business for Ciena.
QChat is good news for Dan Hesee and Sprint. This is a positive and consumer visible first step towards disconnecting the Sprint network from the Nextel network. A potential buyer for Nextel is Morgan O’Brien.
I am not even going to bother opining on the merits of the case. There are plenty of companies over the years that have been involved in similar circumstances. However, this case is getting so much attention that whatever trade secrets they were trying to keep are now going to be publicly known....
1. The attitude by smaller independent telcos tends to be they are not going to mess around with old copper plant that is up for sale from the RBOCs. 2. They will just overbuild these areas with fiber at a lower cost. 3. ...
1. Lawsuits are a reflection that the market competition is very intense. 2. Craigslist needs to focus on product solutions
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