Study Group: Telecom Experts who are GLG Leaders,Scholars and Educators (?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 111
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President
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,...
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...
Director - Subscriber Equipment & Channel Support
TELUS
Steve Ospalak is the Director of Subscriber Equipment and Channel Support in the Products and Services Division of Telus Mobility, a wireless CDMA (3G- 1X) and iDEN network service provider. He is experienced in subscriber equipment devices (voice and data), product acquisition and development, specifications,...
Hong JiangPresident and Chief Executive Officer
Montina, Inc.
Hong Jiang, Ph.D., is the President and CEO at Montina, a technology consulting firm. Dr. Jiang is an expert in the Chinese mobile industry. She has been closely following the Chinese operators’ reorganization efforts, 3G wireless developments including the domestic standard TD-SCDMA and wireless value-add...
Ian WoodPartner
Wireless Foundry
Ian Wood is the Founding Partner of Wireless Foundry, a telecom and IT consultancy founded in 1998. His clients include France Telecom/Orange, SonyEricsson, Vodafone, Openwave and Qualcomm. He was among the first employees of Motorola Cellular Communications in Europe, where he joined in 1985, and rose...
Jacob LarsenVP Merger Integration, Carrier Business Group
Alcatel - Lucent - CC
Jacob Larsen is the Vice President Merger Integration for the Carrier Business Group at Alcatel-Lucent. He oversees the consolidation of Alcatel’s and Lucent’s activities in broadband access, optical networking, carrier routing, wireless networking (CDMA, GSM, 3G UMTS, WiMax, and LTE) and NG networking....
Joseph UptonPres/CEO
Kabel-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,...
Sheldon MeredithSenior Director National Radio Network Strategy
AT&T Mobility
Sheldon Meredith is the Senior Director of National Radio Network Strategy and Development at AT&T Mobility, formerly Cingular Wireless, a company providing mobile voice and data communication services. He has over 23 years experience in mobile communications product R&D; telecom manufacturing, deployment...
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The market is still fragmented. In the big five we still see a wide spread of take up as consumers are yet to be won over. The mobile networks are still to discover a range of products that make the investment pay off. This talks about terminals rather than handsets and so a slowing of sales of phones...
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1. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that Verizon is hell-bent on taking full control of its wireless business. 2. The acquisition of Alltel was only kind of a half victory. 3. Verizon might be signaling...
This was what I feared – distraction and lack of coordination. We may be seeing the beginning of the end of Sprint’s WiMAX plans.
Verizon has a lot going on right now. Verizon is inviting Vodafone to leave the Verizon Wireless venture. Verizon is acquiring Alltel. What did people think Strigl was going to say? However, Sprint may be its own worse enemy.
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