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December 18, 2007
Dan Hesse is now the CEO of Sprint
Congrats to Dan Hesse, now CEO of Sprint. Dan led off Fall VON showing how Embarq was doing the quadruple play. To me the significant point was the landline company that was divested was still looking like a fully integrated service.
Per the Wall Street Journal “Mr. Hesse, who has served as CEO of Embarq Corp., a local phone company that spun out of Sprint last year, is a telecom veteran who is well known to Sprint's board and has strong wireless experience.”
The WSJ continues “Now it will fall to Mr. Hesse to finally wring synergies out of the 2005 merger of Sprint and Nextel – a deal that has proved a huge disappointment thus far – and lift the company out of the industry's doldrums.”
At Spring VON Ali Tabassi will be speaking regarding the WiMax roll out. While the WSJ in previous reports declared the WiMax business dead but the truth is Sprint sees it as a strategic asset they are still looking to deploy.
Hesse, may be charged with finding the monies buy consolidating the less than perfect merger of Sprint Nextel into a cohesive company.
Dan Hesse
http://www.vontv.net/default.cfm?vid=9083&clip=2
http://pulcom.ning.com/group/fallvonIPS/forum/topic/show?id=897424%3ATopic%3A4145
Ali Tabassi
http://www.tvworldwide.com/showclip.cfm?id=9173&clip=2
http://pulcom.ning.com/group/fallvonIPS/forum/topic/show?id=897424%3ATopic%3A4169
Posted by carl at December 18, 2007 02:55 PM