Michael Combes lands at Sprint. Vision and Honor are the keys to understanding this move.
Mike's knowledge of the industry is unsurpassed. And in matters of reorganization it can be argued he is above all others. And when dealing with China he is proven superior. Now he is Masa's Admiral.
Mike is not anyone's puppet. This is a meeting of visionary equals, in the form of proven performers that can do the work they set out to do.
Where Altice set French telecoms at risk from performance and financial failure, Softbank has found a Hero that has breadth of reach from China across USA to Europe, to knit together operations securely and profitably. This bodes a further rise for French and European and thus all Western and USA interests in competing with China to balance market shares of tech firms.
However, it also implies a Vision based on principles that have been shown more firmly adhered to than USA has of late.
Despite the taunting insults thrown by well-financed militarist proponents of gunboat diplomacy with its obvious rights abuses in pursuit of an existentialist dystopia, France has shown it is willing to stay true to Human Rights even when the cost is high.
In a world of cyber-crime and cyber-war turning hot and angry, these principles matter.
With the revelations of the last three years in failed cyber security, the world has turned to a select small group of techno-cops who themselves need policing and oversight and occasionally correction, proof of adhering to these principles matters even more than fiduciary talent.
Recent news of Thales M&A is in the kettle together with news of CPU Kernal Page Table hacking and is all pointing to a crisis in IT security the public cannot grasp. Leaders cannot fail to grasp these matters and champion a solution.
I have already described how our country held the 9/11 planning document 5 months prior to the attack and ignored it.
Israel will correctly go the extra mile to prevent another Holocaust. They will not ignore a 9/11-type document as USA did. Nor should they.
Security is the lingua franca of business today. A CEO must know how to navigate the traditional MBA-taught operations topics PLUS Security to sail in today's macroeconomic weather.
Alcatel bought Lucent and Lucent continued to lead industry under Alcatel, now Nokia.
A CEO who is conversant with both Thales and Lucent tech and their CEOs is a CEO who can map a course successfully. Mike may have only the title President and CFO, but he is effectively co-CEO.
This is a major boost for Softbank and Sprint and for the Principles championed by the West.
I welcome the change in Kansas.
I hope that it leads to Thales offering to Huaxin a share in Gemalto as China's premier Enterprise Solutions provider with global reach. This could expand Softbank and Sprint's reach onward to India supplying multi-band solutions that include 2.5Ghz where they are a principle supplier. The companies that join this aggregation can reach SCALE economics more quickly.
SCALE economics have just become the path to security too. Minimum SKU diversity means minimum threat vectors.
I've been beating this drum for months as some hidden set-back prevented IoT, notably PREDIX, from deploying.
Admiral Combes is now at the helm at Sprint in the Softbank fleet.
How will this affect SEQUANs? I anticipate the restoration of fairness as Corporate hactivism is backed down slightly from the hackery and barn-burning and well-poisoning of recent years. EU is showing its respect for Higher Principles in contrast to USA.
Meritocracy returns. That looks good for SEQUANS
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Sprint Names Accomplished Telecom and Cable Industry Executive Michel Combes as President & Chief Financial Officer
Thu January 4, 2018 OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Jan. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint (S) (NYSE: S) appointed telecom and cable industry executive Michel Combes as President & Chief Financial Officer. Combes will assume the role on January 6 and will report to Chief Executive Officer Marcelo Claure. Combes will also be appointed to Sprint's Board of Directors at a later date....
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