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Launched in 2000, the RCR Wireless News Hall of Fame recognizes the efforts of those people who have made significant contributions to advance wireless telecommunications. The Hall of Fame is conducted in efforts with CTIA, the Industrial Telecommunications Association and the industry at large.
2007 INDUCTEES
In a city that prides itself on the blood sport of politics, good guys are supposed to come in last. Often they do. Its just business, nothing personal, you understand. Dog-eat-dog. The jungle. Dogged Darwinism. Smash-mouth democracy at its finest. |
Arlene Harris has been connecting people to one another for a long time ever since she was a child, helping connect calls for her familys mobile telephone switchboard in the 1950s. |
2006 INDUCTEES
In the dog-eat-dog world that is life inside the Beltway, it is rare to find someone who is liked, respected and considered effective from people on both sides of the aisle. |
2005 INDUCTEES
About 20 years ago, Wayne N. Schelle addressed a roomful of business types at the New Orleans Marriott on the coming age of wireless. After his speech, his wife, who'd been sitting in the audience, summed up the crowd's response. |
2004 INDUCTEES
While there may be a lack of visual similarities, John Stanton's career in the wireless industry has nearly mirrored John Travolta's stardom in Hollywood. |
Dennis Strigl did not have to be a diligent student to become a first-rate manager. |
2003 INDUCTEES
The legacy Mal Gurian leaves the wireless industry will be found as much in the generations of people he has influenced as in the technological innovations he has shaped. |
In official Washington, one's standing is measured not by what friends say about you-indeed, backslapping is a natural reflex here-but rather how your enemies size you up. |
Is it possible to find one person that can understand the policy implications of communications, the technical implications of communications and be able to explain why sometimes one does not necessarily complement the other? |
2002 INDUCTEES
Jai Bhagat, chairman and chief executive officer of Air2Lan, did not have to tinker with toys as a boy to become a virtuoso in the wireless world. |
John Palmer is one of the founding fathers of the modern-day wireless industry. He is a trailblazer and an industry giant, a member of a select group that laid the foundation for one of the biggest success stories in American business. |
After almost 30 years in the telecommunications business-years spent working to market not one, not two, but three different wireless technologies-John Stupka can offer a few basic, piercing insights into the industry. |
In official Washington communications circles, one name is almost synonymous with communications policy. So much so that every year Richard E. Wiley is one of the moderators of a telecom law policy conference attended by anybody who is anybody in the Washington communications elite. |
2001 INDUCTEES
While many people make a name for themselves by inventing technology that somehow changes the world, James A. Dwyer Jr.'s contribution to the wireless communications industry during the past 40 years is a little more subtle. |
Edwin H. Armstrong and his role in the development of radio communications paralleled America's rise to greatness at the turn of the century. His story is at once inspirational and tragic. |
The role Thomas F. Carter played in the birth of modern telecommunications has been largely overlooked. |
With equal parts experience and foresight, Morgan O'Brien took a simple concept 14 years ago and made it into a reality that has changed the shape of the wireless industry as we know it today. |
2000 INDUCTEES
RCR announced seven inductees into its first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, created to recognize the contributions of those people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the wireless telecommunications industry. |
