Mr. Joseph Upton

President and Chief Executive Officer, Upton Consulting

Member of the Telecommunications Council

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Council Member Biography

Joseph Upton is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Upton Consulting, and the former President and Chief Executive Officer at Kabel-X USA, a technical startup company involved in re-coring existing buried/ aerial cables to fiber optics. Mr. Upton has experience in construction and engineering of wireline, wireless, emerging broadband services, telecom construction, outside plant engineering, mergers and acquisitions, and startup company assessments and management. He is knowledgeable in products and broadband services from both RLECs and major players including AT&T, Verizon, Century Link, Windstream, Tellabs, Alcatel-Lucent,Quanta Services, Dycom, Mastec, Charter, Time Warner, Comcast, Bresnan, Cox, Cablevision, Adtran, CommScope, ADC, Sprint-Nextel, Unitek, Brighthouse and many wireless equipment and service providers. As a retired BellSouth Network executive, Mr. Upton is also knowledgeable about many broadband equipment vendors. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2009 - Unspecified: President and Chief Executive Officer, Upton Consulting
2007 - 2009: Pres/CEO, KABEL-X USA, LLC
2000 - 2003: Director of Major Accounts/FTTH, Pirelli Communications Cables and Systems LLCInc
1996 - 1999: Gen Mgr Supply Chain Mgt, BellSouth Telecommunications Inc
1990 - 1996: Network General Mgr, BellSouth Telecommunications Inc
1987 - 1990: Division Mgr-Equipment Engineering Support, BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.

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Stimulus Stymey: NOTHING IS HAPPENING DUDE,R U LISTENING?

March 10, 2009

Analysis of:Feds Offer Tips on How to Get Broadband Stimulus | telephonyonline.com

The Broadband Stimulus bill is not stimulating anything but talk. Job creation? NOPE. When will this talk stop and someone make a decision so business can begin moving again? No one is spending money, thinking they can get it for free.

The Broadband Stimulus Appears to be Stimulating Already

February 25, 2009

Analysis of:Analysts: FTTB to Lead All Fixed Broadband Technologies by 2018 | businessvoip.tmcnet.com

The US is not the leader of the world in FTTX equipment sales or installations. Perhaps, the Broadband Stimulus money will prime the pump for US equipment makers of broadband gear, which could impact sales to the rest of the world, now that the US box makers appear to be gaining some share there.

Telco Competition Weakens the CATV Incumbent's Ability to Hold Customers

February 17, 2009

Analysis of:Can Cable Weather the Economic Storm? | www.lightreading.com

As the RBOCs and RLECs rollout their broadband delights, the competing CATV MSO is feeling the pain of losing customers in that particular locale. Areas that are not being penetrated or targeted for Telco video are not as likely to be losing CATV customers to the telcos.

nDVR is Good For Service Providers But Advertisers Go Deeper in the Hole

February 12, 2009

Analysis of:Supreme Court asks for government view on Cablevision DVR case | uk.reuters.com

The network storage DVR case going on with the Supreme Court/Cablevision has good and bad implications. The good implications are cost reductions for DVR's in general, and the bad are that the advertisers that pay for the programming lose their audience in a bigger way. If the advertisers continue to lose ground with customers, they will stop buying ad time: oops, it sounds like the economy we are in, doesn't it?

Stimulus Tax Credit/Smax Credit Who Cares?

February 12, 2009

Analysis of:Broadband Tax Credit Cut From Stimulus Bill | bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Will the elimination of the broadband tax credit slow the race to get stimulus grant money and create jobs? Probably not. However, putting so called "grant money" for broadband to underserved areas is a biggy, and if small RLECs or big ones are not scrambling to get some engineering marks on drafting paper, then they are losing out.

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GLG Study Groups with Joseph Upton(?)

Study Group Name	No. Members
TMT Council Members in Member Programs	18316
Telecom Infrastructure & Equipment Experts	4064
Telecommunications Council Members in Member Programs	3779
Former C-level Executives in the Technology, Media & Telecom Councils in Member Programs	780
Wireless Services Experts	517