Brad Dye, Ron Mercer, and Vic Jackson are friends and colleagues who work both together and independently, on wireline and wireless communications projects. Following is a summary of their qualifications and experience. They collaborate on consulting assignments, and share the work according to their individual expertise and their schedules.

Brad Dye was the vice president of international networks at WebLink Wireless (formerly PageMart Wireless), in Dallas, Texas. At WebLink, he was responsible for building the international portion of one of the world's largest terrestrial wireless data networks. This network, at its peak, covered 14 countries in North America, South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

His previous position was vice president of sales and marketing at RTS Wireless in New York. While at RTS, he invented a way to send paging traffic over the Internet using the TNPP protocol (encapsulated in TCP/IP). RTS built the product and sold it to paging carriers worldwide. He implemented this solution at WebLink Wireless. Using the Internet, instead of costly leased-international circuits, allowed for a very cost-effective solution, to small carriers in smaller markets, so that they could become part of an international network.

Before RTS Wireless, Brad was with Motorola's Paging Products Group, where he was the manager of Infrastructure Sales, Systems Engineering, Programs Management, and Field Technical Support. He and his team of 20 engineers were responsible for paging infrastructure sales and support in 47 markets in the Latin American and Caribbean areas. Other assignments at Motorola included international market development manager for Motorola's Paging Products Group, with responsibility for worldwide marketing of pagers, area sales manager for the two-way radio division in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and regional sales manager for Central America.

Other positions: He also worked for BBL Industries in Atlanta, Georgia as international sales manager for paging terminals, mobile telephone terminals, and voice mail systems. Glenayre Technologies later acquired BBL Industries. As the director of the international division for Spectrum Communications and Electronics (SCE), he sold the largest paging system in the world (at that time) to the government of Taiwan—in 1986. Ericsson later acquired Spectrum Communications.

Brad has been involved in many facets of the radio communications and electronics industries. For the past several years, he has specialized in international radio paging, voice mail, wireless data, and telemetry systems. He has traveled to over 50 countries in sales and marketing roles and has been involved in supplying the infrastructure for many major paging and voice mail systems used by telephone companies and radio common carriers throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Mexico, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.

Brad is currently a member, or a former member of the American Radio Relay League, the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the Quarter Century Wireless Association, the Radio Club of America, and the American Mensa Society. He has written many technical and marketing papers about paging, telemetry, and wireless messaging. He has also been a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and conventions. His popular presentation, The Wheel of Fortune, promotes the use of a radio-paging channel for non-traditional applications such as: wireless alarm reporting, radio-controlled electrical switches, information services, and electronic signs. These applications are more commonly known today as Wireless Telemetry. This presentation was brought up-to-date as The New Wheel of Fortune and includes current information on two-way paging, including Wireless Data, Wireless e-mail, Wireless Telemetry, and Wireless Instant Messaging. It can be viewed at: www.braddye.com/newheel.html

His academic preparation includes four years of undergraduate study at Bob Jones University, in Greenville, South Carolina, and a total immersion Spanish study program at El Instituto de la Lengua Española in San José, Costa Rica. He was also on the faculty of Greenville Technical College in Greenville, South Carolina where he taught Industrial Electronics. Ongoing studies have included several management and product-specific courses from Motorola and other leading manufacturers of communications and electronics equipment. His language ability includes native English, fluent Spanish, basic Portuguese, and some Guaraní (a South American Indian language). He is the author and editor of the Internet Paging Information Resource site: www.BradDye.com.

Currently, his main activity is editing a weekly Internet bulletin, The Wireless Messaging Newsletter that is read by an estimated 4,000 people in nearly 50 countries. www.braddye.com/newsletters.html.

When time permits, he accepts consulting assignments for systems design recommendations, market research, wireless telemetry, and wireless-related business planning. He also conducts on-site training courses on Wireless Telemetry, Paging, and other types of Wireless Messaging. He is the technical editor of the American Association of Paging Carriers (AAPC) newsletter, and he is a board member of the European Mobile Messaging Association (EMMA).

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Ron Mercer, the founder of Paging & Wireless Network Planners LLC, is a pioneer in telecommunications engineering with more than 40 years of experience in both wireline and wireless telecommunications.

Mr. Mercer has consulted with a number of leading wireless companies, provided expert witness testimony in several legal actions, obtained FCC Type Acceptance for new equipment designs and co-authored the CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement) standard for radio paging. His experience with the various protocols involved in both wireline and wireless telecommunications (CDMA, GSM, TAP, TNPP, Golay, FLEX, POCSAG, ReFLEX, T1/T3, SS7, etc.) has been widely recognized within the industry.

Previously, Mr. Mercer founded and was President of Kerygma Technologies Inc. where he developed and marketed equipment that integrated voice, fax, and e-mail technologies to create a suite of “Store & Forward” services today known as “Unified Messaging.” He also received recognition from The Wall Street Journal in an article entitled “Leading the Charge in the Voice/Fax Messaging Field.”

He was also co-founder and President of Spectrum Communications & Electronics Inc. (SCE) that developed and marketed radio paging, telephone answering service, voice mail, and cellular telephone infrastructure equipment worldwide.

Mr. Mercer started his career in telecommunications at Bell Canada where he gained extensive experience with a variety of PABX, Central Office, and other wireline telephone systems. At Bell Canada, he designed and received US and Canadian patents covering “Dial Access” radio paging systems.

Mr. Mercer received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Montreal Technical Institute in Montreal Canada. He has been an active member of the IEEE for many years and currently is a member of several technical committees within the wireless industry (AAPC, PTC One-Way Paging, and PTC Two-Way paging committees, Voice Mail Users Association, etc.)

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With over 30 years in the telecommunications business, Vic Jackson brings clients a wealth of experience in planning, implementing and managing both voice and data communications systems. His current client base includes telecommunications providers and other institutions throughout the United States. As the Interconnection Consultant to Washington D.C. law firms and telecommunications businesses, he represents clients with all interconnection-related issues.

Vic is a nationally recognized authority on telecommunications issues making presentations before industry groups, FCC staff, Regional Bell Operating companies, and State Commissions. His background includes technical and telecommunications systems management, including; telephone networks, cellular mobile systems, paging systems, and computer applications.

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