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Dish Wireless: Three Takes as 2019 Wraps Up
Home Sectors Tech & Comm Services Dish Wireless: Three Takes as 2019 Wraps Up Dish Network (DISH) has long relied on one business: selling satellite pay-TV subscriptions. But with cord-cutting shrinking the traditional pay-TV market, Dish wants to diversify its business to safeguard its future. The company has identified an opportunity in the wireless market, and efforts to build Dish wireless business are underway.
Dish hires 2 well-known wireless leaders: Rouanne and Bye
It is still an open question whether Dish really plans to build a wireless network in the United States, or if its moves in wireless are just part of a big chess game on the part of Dish CEO Charlie Ergen to stall until he can cash out his wireless spectrum. But today, Dish announced the hires of two senior wireless industry leaders — Marc Rouanne and Stephen Bye — adding some credibility to Dish’s legitimate network build-out plans.
Breaking: Exec says Bye to Connectivity, Headed to DISH
Connectivity Wireless CEO Stephen Bye, who was featured in a recent issue of Connected Real Estate Magazine is leaving to assume the Chief Commercial Officer role at DISH. “Stephen shares our vision for the transformative power our 5G network will deliver to consumers and enterprises of all types,” DISH Co-Founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen said in a release.
Senior Wireless Industry Leaders Marc Rouanne, Stephen Bye to Join DISH Wireless Executive Team
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- DISH Network Corporation today announced that it has named wireless industry innovators Marc Rouanne and Stephen Bye to its executive wireless leadership team. Rouanne will serve as Chief Network Officer and Bye will serve as Chief Commercial Officer. Both will join DISH as executive vice presidents and report to DISH Co-Founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen.
Senior Wireless Industry Leaders Marc Rouanne, Stephen Bye to Join DISH Wireless Executive Team
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- DISH Network Corporation today announced that it has named wireless industry innovators Marc Rouanne and Stephen Bye to its executive wireless leadership team. Rouanne will serve as Chief Network Officer and Bye will serve as Chief Commercial Officer. Both will join DISH as executive vice presidents and report to DISH Co-Founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen .
Andrew Dugan - CenturyLink
Andrew Dugan is Chief Technology Officer for CenturyLink. In this role, he is responsible for the development, integration and deployment of CenturyLink’s global network supporting Consumer, Wholesale, Government and Enterprise markets. Andrew is a veteran technology executive with more than 30 years of experience in building telecommunications networks, switching platforms and services platforms.
C Spire, Mississippi Delta farmers ready to expand smart agriculture solutions
[January 22, 2019] TCHULA, Miss., Jan. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Buoyed by a highly successful Tech Movement pilot program that uses new automated irrigation techniques to boost row crop yields while conserving water, C Spire is ready to expand its partnership with farmers and smart equipment firms to provide network and information technology support for precision agriculture applications.
C Spire Partners Siklu to Deliver '5G' Fixed Wireless to Homes and Businesses
C Spire, the largest privately held wireless operator in the US announced a partnership with Siklu, a market leader in mmWave wireless solutions, to use multi-gigabit wireless technology to backhaul high speed internet service to thousands of homes and businesses in Mississippi.
C Spire event offers windows to the future
To hear Randi Zuckerberg tell it, she has achieved her career goals in spite of herself. Of course, it didn’t hurt that she had help early in her career from her famous brother, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief officer of Facebook. But Randi really wanted to be a performer. However, that got torpedoed when a performing arts school turned her down. “I wanted to sing on Broadway,” she said in mock sorrow.
MVMT 2018 - May 8 - Jackson Convention Center
Sarah Bond is Microsoft's General Manager of Business Development. She is helping accelerate the pace and direction of innovation in areas of strategic importance to Microsoft. She focuses on growth initiatives, emerging technologies, AI and driving world-class globally managed partner engagements. Prior to Microsoft, Sarah held a variety of leadership roles at T-Mobile.
Sprint's net neutrality position changes with its place in the market - Kansas City Business Journal
When the Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back net neutrality regulations last week - no longer requiring telecommunications companies to treat the internet as a public utility - Sprint Corp. joined several big providers in lauding the repeal as a way to remove regulatory uncertainty.
Mississippi employees and businesses on the move
Dr. Steven Smith, an otolaryngologist, has joined the medical staff and the practice of Otolaryngology Associates in Columbus. A native of Magee, Smith has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Mississippi and earned his medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Galveston, Texas.
C Spire's Bye named rising star in U.S. wireless industry - Mississippi Business Journal
C Spire President Stephen Bye was recently named one of the U.S. wireless industry’s rising stars along with 10 other executives from major telecommunication firms.
Stephen Bye named rising star in U.S. wireless industry
C Spire President Stephen Bye was named one of the U.S. wireless industry’s rising stars Wednesday along with 10 other executives from Qualcomm, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, Telecom Infra Project and OneWeb. Fierce Wireless, an internationally recognized online publication and email newsletter that focuses on the latest trends, analysis and news in the wireless industry, announced the selections in a special report published on its website by Editor Mike Dano.
Executives to watch: 11 rising stars of wireless
This is probably obvious, but it’s worth saying anyway: A lot of really smart people work in the wireless industry. Indeed, one of the best parts of my job is that I get to talk to some of these people about what they’re doing and why. And that’s why putting this list together is so hard: Narrowing a list like this down to a manageable length is no small feat. Nonetheless, here it is: 11 executives the FierceWireless editorial team thinks are on the rise in wireless.
Stephen Bye Named as Rivada Networks CTO
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rivada Networks has announced Stephen Bye will join the company as Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Bye has more than 24 years of senior management experience in network strategy, planning, product development and management, network and technology development, network and device engineering, network operations, construction and deployment, field services, systems integration and testing.
C Spire achieves 2.2 Gbps in 5G test with Nokia at Mississippi HQ
Ridgeland, Mississippi-based C Spire last week became the first company to successfully demonstrate a 5G fixed wireless solution in Mississippi using Nokia (NYSE:NOK) equipment with a direct connection to its fiber-based commercial television service. Nokia, which last month was granted Special Temporary Authorization (STA) from the FCC to conduct tests at C Spire's headquarters, supplied the base station and mobile unit.
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Wireless is becoming an increasingly critical part of the pay-TV business – either through the industry’s growing number of CableWiFi hotspots, which now top more than 400,000 nationwide, or through potential mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deals such as the one Comcast is expected to unveil sometime in 2016. At the same time, consumers are increasingly using their mobile devices to view video whenever and wherever they want.
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