Centennial Communications Appoints New President and Chief Operating Officer.Business and Technology Editors WALL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002 Centennial Communications Centennial Communications (NASDAQ: CYCL) and its subsidiaries (Centennial Wireless (U.S.), Centennial Dominicana and Centennial de Puerto Rico) provide wireless and broadband telecommunications services to wireless telephone subscribers in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CYCL) today announced the appointment of Paget L. Alves to the position of president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Centennial Communications. Most recently, Mr. Alves was president and chief executive officer of PointOne Telecommunications, Inc., a provider of voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) services to telecommunications carriers. Prior to that, he spent four years at Sprint Communications Corporation where he rose to President, Sales and Support - Business Services Group and oversaw a 5,000 person organization with over $8 billion in annual revenue. Prior to Sprint, Mr. Alves spent eight years at Murata Business Systems in increasing roles of responsibility, eventually serving as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Alves also worked at IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) for six years as an attorney. Mr. Alves holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor relations from Cornell University as well as a J.D. from Cornell Law School The Cornell Law School was formally opened in 1887, but was moved to its present-day location at Myron Taylor Hall in 1937. The law school building, an ornate, Gothic structure, was the result of a donation by Myron Charles Taylor, a former CEO of US Steel, and a member of the Cornell . "We are fortunate to add a talent like Paget to our team," said Michael J. Small, chief executive officer of Centennial. "We spent much of the last two years making acquisitions and building state-of-the-art CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. digital networks in the Caribbean. With this phase behind us, it's time to focus even more intently on providing the best possible service to all our customers both in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Paget's proven track record as a skilled operator will improve our ability to provide our customers with reliable, affordable and innovative telecommunications services." Centennial is one of the largest independent wireless telecommunications service providers in the United States and the Caribbean with approximately 18.5 million Net Pops and 826,500 wireless subscribers. Centennial's U.S. operations have approximately 6.0 million Net Pops in small cities and rural areas. Centennial's Caribbean integrated communications operation owns and operates wireless licenses for 12.4 million Net Pops in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and provides voice, data, video and Internet services on broadband networks in the region. Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and an affiliate of The Blackstone Group are controlling shareholders of Centennial. For more information regarding Centennial, please visit our website at www.centennialcom.com. |
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