Stephen Bye named one of most powerful in U.S. wireless industry

C Spire executive one of 26 senior managers, regulators in mobile spotlight

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Nov 27, 2018, 14:22 ET

DENVER, Nov. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- C Spire President Stephen Bye was named one of the U.S. wireless industry's most powerful persons Tuesday along with 25 other executives from public and private telecom, cable and technology firms, along with chip maker senior leaders, government agency officials and regulators.

Fierce Wireless, an internationally recognized online publication and email newsletter that focuses on the latest trends, analysis and news in the wireless industry, announced the selections in its third annual special report published by Editor-in-Chief Mike Dano.

C Spire President Stephen Bye was named one of the U.S. wireless industry’s most powerful persons Tuesday by Fierce Wireless along with 25 other executives from public and private telecom, cable and technology firms, along with chip maker senior leaders, government agency officials and regulators.

The most powerful leaders list was compiled by the Fierce editorial staff through internal deliberations. "These are the 26 people we believe can legitimately lay claim to be the most powerful person in the U.S. wireless industry," Dano wrote in the report.

In a new wrinkle this year, Fierce has created a bracket and is pairing off each of the executives against one another to determine who will eventually be named the most powerful person in the U.S. mobile industry. T-Mobile CEO John LeGere won in 2016 and One Web's Greg Wyler won the vote last year.

Joining Bye on the list are executives from the nation's leading telecommunications, cable, satellite, smartphone manufacturers and wireless firms along with industry-leading chip makers and government agencies and regulators.

"I'm honored and humbled to be selected as part of this prestigious list," said Bye, who was named president of C Spire by longtime CEO Hu Meena in December 2016 after an earlier stint as chief technology officer of the Mississippi-based diversified telecommunications and technology services company.

Bye oversees operations for the company, which includes three lines of business, serving approximately 1 million consumer and business customers with wireless, fiber-to-the-home services and enterprise voice, data, managed cloud and IT services in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and parts of Florida.

A well-known and widely respected 26-year veteran in the telecommunications industry, Bye served previous stints as CTO at Sprint, vice president of wireless at Cox Communications and executive director of converged services at AT&T. Fierce said Bye is helping guide 5G and fixed wireless efforts at one of the nation's most innovative regional wireless operators.

About C Spire
C Spire is a leading technology company committed to transforming its service areas through the C Spire Tech Movement, which includes the massive deployment of broadband internet to homes and small businesses, technology innovation leadership and the creation and retention of a 21^st century technology workforce in its region. The company provides world-class, customer-inspired wireless communications, 1 Gigabit consumer Internet access as well as a full suite of dedicated Internet, wireless, IP Voice, data and cloud services for businesses. This news release and other announcements are available at www.cspire.com/news. For more information about C Spire, visit www.cspire.com or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cspire or Twitter at www.twitter.com/cspire.

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