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Study Group: Telecommunications Council Members in Member Programs

Council Members in this Study Group: 3443

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as IT Services, consumer electronics, wireless devices, software, hardware, information technology, semiconductors, media, cable, satellite, internet, broadband, global positioning systems, advertising, online media, telecommunications, networking, wireless, and data storage, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Michael Cote, President, The Cote CollaborativeMichael Cote

President
The Cote Collaborative
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Michael Cote is an Independent Telecommunications Consultant and Principal of the Cote Collaborative. 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...

Stephen Sutkowski

President
Telecom Strategic Visions
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

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 Greenholtz, Principal, Telecom PragmaticsSamuel Greenholtz

Principal
Telecom Pragmatics
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Sam Greenholtz is a retired manager from Verizon and the Co Founder and Principal of Telecom Pragmatics, a consulting and research firm specializing in the telecommunications market. He has expertise in FTTx, optical networking, VoIP, Ethernet and wireless technologies including LTE, Wi-MAX, 3G, CDMA,...

Jacob Larsen, VP, Global Operations and Business Transformation, Alcatel-Lucent - CCJacob Larsen

VP, Global Operations and Business Transformation
Alcatel-Lucent - CC
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Jacob Larsen is the Vice President, Global Operations and Business Transformation at Alcatel-Lucent. He oversees the company's global real estate portfolio across all practice areas including sales, R&D, manufacturing, and logistics. Post-merger, he coordinated the consolidation of Alcatel's and Lucent's...

Steve Fortuna, President, Fortuna ConsultantsSteve Fortuna

President
Fortuna Consultants
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Steve Fortuna is the President of Fortuna Consultants, providing consulting engineering and feasibility studies to the telecommunications industry. Previously, he was a Network Architect with Charter Communications since October 2007. He has more than 18 years of experience in designing and implementing...

William Stueber, Senior Partner, Telecom Partners Group LLPWilliam Stueber

Senior Partner
Telecom Partners Group LLP
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

William Stueber is Senior Partner at Telecom Partners Group LLP. He is a Consultant with over 26 years of experience in the telecom industry. Mr. Stueber is knowledgeable about the developments with AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint, Metro PCS, Leap, Virgin Mobile, Motorola, Nokia,...

Steve Ospalak

Senior Executive Consultant
Breen Management Group
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Steve Ospalak is the Senior Executive Consultant of Breen Management Group, specializes in mobile device technology. He helps operators, mobile device OEM/ODMs, and technology companies with technology and device aggregation. Prior, Steve was the Director-Subscriber Equipment and Channel Support at...

Joseph Upton, President, Upton ConsultingJoseph Upton

President
Upton Consulting
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Joby Upton is the President of Upton Consulting and the former Presi/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, CenturyTel,...

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Has RIM become the AOL of the handset market?

November 6, 2009

Blackberry Offers Low-Hanging Fruit (WSJ Thursday, 11/5/2009) | wsj.com

The release of the Motorola's Droid Smartphone was predicted to impact Apple's iPhone business. This article points out that it is Research in Motion ("RIM's") Blackberry business that is threatened. The article provides facts and figures on the iPhone, Android devices on impact on RIM's Blackberry...

Google’s Voice Service – Needs Help From Carriers – So What!

November 5, 2009

P.J. Louis, President, PJ Louis LLC

The eight telecom companies behind Google Voice - and what it means | blog.telephonyonline.com

Anyone remember the Reseller Carrier (some use to refer these carriers as Wholesalers), the CAP, or the CLEC?

Nokia, Apple and Google - Driving the Mobile Revolution

November 5, 2009

Tal Raeside, Managing Director, Insight Strategic Services

Google, Nokia, Apple - who will win the mobile wars? | www.guardian.co.uk

Nokia, Apple and Google, along with several other companies, will shape the next phase of the mobile revolution.

Dangers And Limitations Of Shareholder Value - Cisco And The Fate of Lucent

November 5, 2009

breakingviews.com - cisco’s run of spending - nytimes.com | www.nytimes.com

The ideology of shareholder value has dominated the thinking of many U.S. companies for at least two decades, to the detriment of longer-term strategies and internal investments, and often in practice mostly to the benefit of management's compensation packages. This article questions whether even Cisco...

NSN's HLR is not yet up to the task

November 5, 2009

T-Mobile US suffers another network outage | www.telecomseurope.net

T-Mobile US suffered a major network outage where a large number of subscribers could not send or receive voice or text messaging due to an outage in Nokia-Siemens' Home Location Register (HLR) as a result of an overload condition. This was the second incident that NSN has with their HLR that could...

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