Chris Hart

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Chris Hart

VP Operations

Chris has more than 20 years of experience in the optoelectronics industry. He has worked in numerous roles in R&D, product development and operations, and has led global teams developing leading edge products. Most recently, he was with Bookham Inc, where he was responsible for the design and development of optical sub-assemblies for pluggable transceivers. Before that he worked in roles of increasing seniority at Nortel Networks, including leading the Optical Packaging Technology program.

Christopher Hart

VP Operations

Chris has more than 20 years of experience in the optoelectronics industry.He has worked in numerous roles in R&D, product development and operations, and has led global teams developing leading edge products.Most recently, he was with Bookham Inc, where he was responsible for the design and development of optical sub-assemblies for pluggable transceivers.Before that he worked in roles of increasing seniority at Nortel Networks, including leading the Optical Packaging Technology program.

The residential and small business potential in North America is pretty enormous, says Chris Hart, vice president of sales and marketing for Nortel's fixed wireless access unit in the United Kingdom.However, he says, flat-rate local billing by the entrenched local providers has stalled wireless entry into the local loop.

Hart expects wireless operators to see fixed services in coming years as a way to further leverage the investment they be making in infrastructure. And he says long-distance operators and others eyeing local loop competition will find that wireless provides the quickest entry to that market.Broadband operators such as Teligent Inc. (Vienna, Va.), he notes, will jump-start part of the market as they roll out service this year.

Many analysts do not include Teligent in their lists of traditional WLL providers since its broadband service, capable of T1 (1.544 Mbit/s) to T3 (45 Mbit/s) links, will be targeted only to small and medium-sized business customers in the United States.

Teligent plans to provide local, long distance, high-speed data, and Internet services to 74 major U.S. metropolitan areas and launch commercial service in at least 10 markets this year.

Omnipoint Communications Inc. (Cedar Knolls, N.J.) might also bear watching as it begins implementing its IS-661 technology in New York as a competitive access provider (CAP).The company was granted a pioneer's preference license for PCS in the New York major trading area based on its planned use of IS-661, which it is thus required to deploy even though the carrier's high-mobility PCS network uses GSM technology.