Sprint adds new executives to senior leadership

As the competition heats up between Sprint and T-Mobile, two mobile carriers that are both sitting very close to 60 million customers each and thus fighting over the #3 largest carrier spot in the United States, Sprint announced the addition of three new executives to its senior leadership.

The line-up at Sprint includes a new chief financial officer, chief operating officer of technology, and chief technology officer. Respectively, they are: Tarek Robbiati from FlexiGroup, Günther Ottendorfer from Telekom Austria Group, and John Saw, who is being promoted from Sprint’s chief network officer position.

An interesting thing to note is that Tarek Robbiati and Günther Ottendorfer have both spent considerable time serving in leadership positions in the Australian market. Ottendorfer was a managing director of Optus Singtel in Sydney, Australia.

According to Sprint, its goal with this new senior leadership is to work on strengthening its existing network, while expanding into new markets. One of the pieces of technology it specifically hopes to focus on is Network Virtualization, which Sprint claims in its public relations release, “…a prime example of the advanced technology that offers the company the ability to increase the power of its wireless network, deploy improvements rapidly, manage it with greater flexibility and more easily introduce new services over the network.”

Source: Sprint

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