Study Group: Telecommunications Services Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 311
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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,...
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....
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...
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GLG NewsSMAnalyses by this Study Group's Experts(?)
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...
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.
The strong initial sales of the $130 Samsung Instinct indicate that Sprint Nextel can thwart churn with handset upgrades and that there could be a price war of smartphones and unlimited data.
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