Rub Elbows with Industry Pioneers
09.14.2010 by Andrew M. Seybold
This is the place to be to meet and rub elbows with many of the industry pioneers. You don’t have to be a long-time participant in wireless to attend...
On October 5, 2010 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, the night prior the CTIA fall event, there will be a gathering of between 250 and 300 people to honor the induction of four people (one posthumously) into the Wireless History Foundation’s (WHF) Wireless Hall of Fame.
This is the first dinner for the organization since it hosted the Cellular 25 dinner in Chicago of 2008 that was organized by the then fledgling Wireless History Foundation to mark the 25th anniversary of the start of cellular phone service in the United States. Now the WHF is a 501(c) corporation, and its mission is twofold: To track and record the history of wireless communications, and to honor those who have contributed to the industry’s success.
The event starts with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m. followed by a dinner and awards ceremony. Tickets are available until October 2, and the dinner is certain to be a sell-out. This is the place to be to meet and rub elbows with many of the industry pioneers. You don’t have to be a long-time participant in wireless to attend, and it is a great venue to honor not only the new Hall of Fame Inductees, but those who are already members of the Hall of Fame as well as all of the others in attendance who have helped shape the cellular and land mobile industries.
I hope you will join those of us who will be attending this great event. This year’s inductees are LeRoy Carlson, Sr., who was the founder and first CEO of TDS (Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.) and serves on the Board of Directors of United States Cellular Corporation; Ted Rogers (deceased), creator of Canada’s largest cable and mobile phone company; Stan Sigman, the retired President and CEO of AT&T Wireless and SBC Communications before that; and Ray Trott, who in 1978 formed Trott Communications Group and has contributed to design work in the areas of antenna and inference technologies.
As you can see, this is a sterling group of people who will be joining the likes of Jay Kitchen, Arlene Harris, John Stanton, Mal Gurian, Tom Wheeler, Jai Bhagat, Martin Cooper, and a host of others previously inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame.
The Wireless History Foundation is also asking for donations of items, articles, and other things that will help preserve the history of our wonderful industry so future generations will be able to better understand how our industry evolved and more about those who contributed to it.
I hope to see you there.
Andrew M. Seybold