A long-time telecommunications expert, Anne Schelle, has been named executive director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition, according to the press release.
The Coalition promotes the development of mobile digital television by the traditional TV broadcasters. The group’s goal is create a mobile TV service transmitted by broadcasters rather than by using cellular networks and their mobile TV protocols.
I knew Anne years ago when she began working at a lobbyist at Telocator Network of America, the first association for the independent (non-phone company) providers of public paging and mobile telephone (then called radiotelephone) services. Telocator (which later became the Personal Communications Industry Association – PCIA) was the association for consumer mobile communications. (Check out an old Time article about mobile communications, when I was editor, among other responsibilities, of Telocator magazine.)
Anne’s telecom positions
Since Telocator, Anne has been involved in a variety of telecommunications-related companies. She was vice president of external relations at American Personal Communications (the second carrier in the country to offer cellular service; I knew the company’s executives very well), co-founder of xDSL Networks for broadband Internet access and president of the telecommunications consulting company Tasman Technologies.
Most recently she was a partner at the consulting company of Actium Advisors.
Good luck Anne in your new position.
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