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WIRELESS EXECUTIVE NAMED TO BGOC BOARD
WIRELESS EXECUTIVE NAMED TO BGOC BOARD
CISCO, Texas, Jan 18, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Black Giant Oil
Company (OTC Bulletin Board: BGOC) has named a nationally recognized
executive from the telecommunications industry to its Board of
Directors.
Ronald Baker, who is President and CEO of GetMore TelCom, LLC, based in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a veteran of the telecommunications and
wireless internet industries, will join the BGOC Board of Directors on
February 1, 2000.
Mr. Baker, one of the first executives hired by McCaw Cellular during
the inception of the commercialized cellular telephone industry during
the mid- 1980s, has twenty years' active experience in all phases of
the communications business.
BGOC recently acquired forty percent (40%) of the retail operations
owned by GetMore Communications, which includes ten (10) cell phone and
pager stores operating currently in Oklahoma and Texas as an authorized
Voice Stream dealer. GetMore TelCom, LLC also owns GetMore
Communications, TelCom One Communications and GetMore Wireless &
Internet.
Prior to being a co-founder of GetMore in 1998, Mr. Baker served as an
executive with Western Wireless Corporation, working for the Corporate
Office in Issaquah, Washington as National Sales Manager for the
Wireless Data Division and as General Manager in Oklahoma City. He was
with McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless Services from 1984 until 1996.
Mr. Baker has served on three (3) national committees which have guided
members of Congress in formulating regulations for the
telecommunications industry and the Internet. He has served as an
Advisor to the Federal Law Enforcement Wireless Users Group (FLEWUG),
to the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Council (PLSWAC), and the
Intelligent Transportation System.
In 1998-99, Mr. Baker developed and implemented the Wireless Village
Communications System in Norman, Oklahoma, an unprecedented hi-tech
coalition between the University of Oklahoma, the City of Norman,
Cleveland County, and public safety officials from the State of
Oklahoma, which is being used as a model for other such Wireless
Village communities throughout the U.S.
Mr. Baker is currently spearheading the Joint Venture between BGOC and
GetMore TelCom, LLC for the construction and implementation of
High-Speed Wireless Internet operations in several cities throughout
Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Iowa and Colorado for business customers.
Mr. Baker remains active with the United States Disaster Preparedness
Council, of which he was co- founder.
This News Release includes forward-looking statements that involved
risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements in this release
are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reformed Act of 1995. Actual results may differ
materially, due to a variety of factors including, without limitation,
the Company's ability to produce and market products and/or services
and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's reports
filed with the Securities Exchange Commission.
For additional information, contact Ivan Webb at 254-442-3968 or fax,
254-442-3843.
SOURCE Black Giant Oil Company
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CONTACT: Ivan Webb of Black Giant Oil Company, 254-442-3968 or fax,
254-442-3843
(BGOC)
GEOGRAPHY: Texas
INDUSTRY CODE: OIL
SUBJECT CODE: PER
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