Study Group: Telecommunications Council Members in Member Programs(?)
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Michael CotePresident
Independent Consultant (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....
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,...
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....
Tim FarrarPresident
Telecom, Media & Finance Assoc.
Tim Farrar is the President of Telecom, Media and Finance Associates Inc., a consulting company specializing in business planning and financial and technical analysis for satellite services. He has over 13 years of experience in global telecom consulting, specializing in analyzing the impact of technical...
William StueberIndependent Consultant
Bill Stueber
William Stueber is an Independent Consultant. He is a former Chief Executive Officer in the telecommunications industry with over 25 years of experience. He is knowledgeable in the wireless industry including wireless carrier distribution, marketing, prepaid, postpaid, wholesale, retail, MVNO, MVNE,...
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AT&T first terminating DirecTV and now Dish might not be intended to drop satellite-television from bundled marketing, but instead to adopt mutual-selling roles in the relationship.
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...
The pool of potential customers likely to choose Clearwire’s WiMax network will likely be severely limited by the availability of alternative broadband wireless services that already offer wide coverage, as well as the characteristics of many of their demands and expectations which WiMax-based services...
Verizon Wireless’s announced agreement with Brightpoint to support handsets for indirect retail channels appears to be an attempt to separate company-owned direct distribution.
Virgin Mobile USA’s acquisition of Helio is favorable for platform efficiencies, handset inventories and cash infusion, but the saturated teen market trends are questionable for retention and growth.
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