8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#1982567 at 2018-07-01 12:28:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2500: (You)'re the Reason God Made Oklahoma Edition
>>1982482
yes, lots going on with Verizon and interesting dates
Vestberg, the company's chief technology officer, will succeed Lowell McAdam, who has been CEO since August 2011. He joined the company last year and was viewed as a potential successor to McAdam, along with two executives who had risen through Verizon's ranks: Marni Walden, Verizon's head of media, and John Stratton, president of global operations. Walden left the company earlier this year, and Verizon said on Friday that Stratton would retire by the end of 2018.
"They picked an outsider with a little bit more new experience compared to John Stratton, who has been nurtured and groomed for this position for 20 years," said Roger Entner, an analyst at Recon Analytics.
He added, "I think this is a logical culmination of a strategy for the last five, six, seven years of Lowell and Verizon in general bringing in more and more people from the outside."
Verizon's chief marketing officer Diego Scotti, who joined the company in 2014, came from the retailer J. Crew. Ronan Dunne, who some industry insiders also saw as a potential successor to McAdam, became president of Verizon Wireless after serving as CEO of Telefonica UK. And CFO Matthew Ellis started at Verizon in 2013 after more than a decade at Tyson Foods.
Verizon has reason to make big changes. It has been facing more competition for subscribers in a saturated market for U.S. wireless subscribers where most people already have cell phone service.
The company and its No. 2 rival AT&T have pursued different strategies in search of growth. AT&T is trying to distinguish itself through ownership of content with an $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, which owns channels such as HBO and CNN. At the Code conference in May, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that he feels the company needs to pursue a vertically integrated strategy, incorporating both content and distribution, to remain relevant against tech giants with multifaceted businesses such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/08/verizons-ceo-pick-shows-the-company-is-banking-on-5g-over-content.html
#1674077 at 2018-06-09 02:11:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2106: Qrowing Libræry
repost from last bread:
https:// www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/6/8/17442518/verizon-hans-vestberg-new-ceo-announced-5g-fiber-lowell-mcadam
two big names out at Verizon. current ceo and a vp. Lowell McAdam and John Stratton.
#1674053 at 2018-06-09 02:09:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2105: Gœ?fœ??
https:// www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/6/8/17442518/verizon-hans-vestberg-new-ceo-announced-5g-fiber-lowell-mcadam
two big names out at Verizon. current ceo and a vp. Lowell McAdam and John Stratton.
#1667070 at 2018-06-08 11:40:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2097 Have (you) Thanked Your BO/BV Lately? Edition
New CEO coming to Verizon. What's strange is the board bypassed the heir-apparent (John Stratton, chief of global ops) to name the Chief Technology Officer as new CEO. All of this incestuous shit has got me wondering if it has something to do with Vestberg's former position at Ericsson. Also looks to be 5G related.
BUSINESS NEWS
JUNE 8, 2018 / 6:19 AM / UPDATED 12 MINUTES AGO
Verizon names former Ericsson chief as new CEO
(Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) named Chief Technology Officer and former Ericsson boss Hans Vestberg as its new Chief Executive on Friday, saying he will replace current CEO Lowell McAdam on Aug. 1.
McAdam, 64, plans to retire at the end of the year and will serve as executive chairman of the board until then and then become non-executive chairman, the company said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-verizon-ceo/verizon-names-former-ericsson-chief-as-new-ceo-idUSKCN1J41GC
Verizon CEO to Retire, Succeeded by a Newcomer (Paywalled WSJ piece, notable portions of article relating to 5G and network architecture)
Mr. Vestberg was "a better match for where Verizon was going to go," Mr. McAdam said in an interview. "With 5G in front of us, we are at a huge inflection point. Whoever is at the head of the business should be able to see that through."
Mr. Vestberg, who spent more than years at Ericsson, is an expert in network architecture. Mr. McAdam cited Mr. Vestberg's global experience at the helm of Ericsson and age as factors he and the board considered.
It is also investing in a faster network, though it is unclear how network providers will commercialize 5G. Mr. Vestberg said in an interview that Verizon's 5G residential service is his top priority.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-ceo-to-retire-replaced-by-a-newcomer-1528455600
8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (1)
#19111447 at 2023-07-02 16:41:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19111438
>>19110654
>Convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti, left, who turned state witness against late former police commissioner Jackie Selebi and stood trial for Brett Kebble's 2005 murder,
"Cops obstruct Selebi investigation"
https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-05-cops-obstruct-selebi-investigation/
5 JUL 2008
Police and National Intelligence Agency leaders appear to be waging a war of attrition against the National Prosecuting Authority and the Scorpions.
Evidence at Jackie Selebi's court appearance and at the Ginwala Inquiry suggests acting police commissioner Tim Williams and NIA boss Manala Manzini have instituted a campaign to frustrate the Selebi case.
Selebi's lawyers last week tabled a series of letters between Williams and acting National Director of Public Prosecutions Mokotedi Mpshe as part of their unsuccessful application to oppose the postponement of Selebi's case.
The correspondence shows Williams has blocked access by Scorpions investigators to crucial evidence needed for the Selebi prosecution.
In January and May Mpshe wrote to Williams asking him to facilitate the handing over of information in police hands, including:
- details of alleged mobster Glenn Agliotti's role and payments as a police informer;
- police videos on which Agliotti is recorded;
- information on whether John Stratton, the Australian accused of planning Brett Kebble's murder, was a police informer;
- the diaries of key players, including Selebi and members of crime intelligence, who interacted with Agliotti; and
- Selebi's travel records.
Williams's responses are sarcastic and hostile. In his first reply, he said the request was so "vague and filled with discrepancies" that it was impossible for him to assist.
"My willingness at our informal meeting to assist you with a request for further material related to your already instituted prosecution of Commissioner Selebi did not amount to a willingness to conduct a further investigation on behalf of the DSO," he wrote.
"I was under the impression, gleaned from media statements issued by yourself and your media relations officer - that you were already in a position to proceed with your prosecution against the national commissioner.
"Your request at this late stage is unreasonable and I would not want to become a reason for or a stumbling block preventing you from commencing with your prosecution without delay."
On May 27 Mpshe repeated the request in more detail, providing explanations for how each piece of evidence would be useful to the prosecution.
Conveniently for Selebi, Mpshe's correspondence and Williams's reply were leaked to the media and some of it was published on June 22, allowing Selebi's lawyers to write to the police on June 23 asking for it.
Contrasting starkly with their response to the NPA, the police sent Selebi's lawyers the full correspondence on the same day, including Williams's second reply, also dated June 23. Selebi may have seen the response before Mpshe did.
In his second reply Williams lectured Mpshe on the role of the crime intelligence division (CID), emphasising the prohibition on the disclosure of intelligence sources and methods.
He complained that the CID's requests to the Scorpions for details of their investigation were denied: "In fact the [Scorpions] deliberately misled the division regarding the extent of their investigation."
Williams does not acknowledge that he knows key members of the CID are considered suspects in the Scorpions' case. Williams states that as members of the investigation team were allowed supervised "access" to informer documentation relating to Agliotti and others, this should suffice.
He would not provide the actual material, meaning it could not be used as evidence.
The same applied to video material, including a crucial 2003 recording in which Agliotti admits to crime intelligence boss Mulangi Mphego that he tried to get money from Kebble needed to pay Selebi.
Williams declined to say whether Stratton was a police informer, as this would disclose the "secret services" of the SAPS. However, Mphego is known to have boasted to the media of Stratton's status as his agent.
Also for reasons of "secret service" Williams declined to make diaries available. On the subject of Selebi's travel records, Williams complained provision of these would be a "monumental task" but he would do his best to assist.