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Legend
George O'Neal Learned to Say 'I Don't Know.' Then He Built Networks That Could Not Bluff.
Executive · Operator · Engineer

George O'Neal Learned to Say 'I Don't Know.' Then He Built Networks That Could Not Bluff.

The Aureon chief spent a career replacing copper with fiber. His harder conversion began at West Point, where a reluctant speaker learned that leadership starts with preparation, candor, and the nerve to answer later.

george-oneal · aureonRead →
Company
Mobily sells phone plans. Its bigger bet is under the surface.
Consumer · Enterprise · Fintech

Mobily sells phone plans. Its bigger bet is under the surface.

The company that broke Saudi Arabia’s mobile monopoly is building a business in fiber, data centers and cables beneath the Red Sea. Getting there has meant a costly license, an accounting reckoning and a new test of what a telecom operator can sell.

telecommunications · saudi-arabiaRead →
Company
ZTE survived the cutoff. Now it wants the computing business.
Enterprise · Hardware · Consumer

ZTE survived the cutoff. Now it wants the computing business.

A supplier ban stopped ZTE’s major operations in 2018. Today, the telecom equipment maker is chasing AI infrastructure while keeping a hand in everything from Mexico’s mobile networks to gaming phones.

telecommunications · 5gRead →
Legend
Cliff Dinwiddie Put Sales and Marketing on One Scoreboard
Executive · Operator · Author

Cliff Dinwiddie Put Sales and Marketing on One Scoreboard

After three decades in telecom, Uniti and Kinetic CMO Cliff Dinwiddie has a plain-spoken operating system: share the numbers, start with the customer’s problem, admit when you are wrong, and let AI make the humans more useful.

cliff-dinwiddie · telecommunicationsRead →
Company
The Quiet Roll-Up Wiring Brazil's Interior, One Bought-Out ISP at a Time
Consumer · Enterprise · Media

The Quiet Roll-Up Wiring Brazil's Interior, One Bought-Out ISP at a Time

A decade of acquisitions turned a scattered handful of small-town providers into Brazil's second-largest ISP in Sao Paulo state. Here is how Alares built a fiber network out of everyone else's leftovers.

fiber-optic · brazilian-ispRead →
Company
Millicom (Tigo)
Fintech · Media · Consumer

Millicom (Tigo)

Millicom, operating under its Tigo brand, is a Luxembourg-headquartered telecommunications and digital services group that connects more than 46 million customers across nine Latin American markets with mobile, fiber-cable broadband, pay TV, and Tigo Money mobile financial services. Listed on Nasdaq under the ticker TIGO, the company describes its purpose as building the digital highways that connect people, improve lives, and develop communities.

telecommunications · latin-americaRead →