Sprint Names Junichi Miyakawa as Technical Chief Operating Officer
October 31 2014 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Sprint (NYSE:S) announced today that Junichi Miyakawa has been
named to the newly created position of Technical Chief Operating
Officer, effective Nov. 1. Miyakawa is joining Sprint from SoftBank
Group, where he led the company’s best-in-class network
operations.
In his new role at Sprint, Miyakawa will oversee the company’s
network and technology organization, including related strategy,
network operations and performance. He will also lead its
relationships with key network equipment vendors and will report
directly to Marcelo Claure, Sprint’s Chief Executive Officer.
Miyakawa joined SoftBank BB as a Board of Director in 2003 and
currently serves as Executive Vice President, Board Director &
CTO for SoftBank Mobile, SoftBank BB and SoftBank Telecom. Under
his direction, SoftBank emerged as a wireless market leader in
Japan with a network running on the 2.5 gigahertz spectrum. This is
the same slice of airwaves forming a critically important core
within a strong overall spectrum portfolio supporting the Sprint
network.
“Miyakawa-san transformed the SoftBank network in Japan and I’m
confident that his expertise and leadership will help us do the
same thing for Sprint customers,” said Claure. “We already have
made substantial progress on the Sprint network and it is
performing better every day. He will work directly with our network
team as we continue to build out our network to take advantage of
our strong and unique spectrum position.”
Chief Technology Officer Stephen Bye and John Saw Ph.D., Chief
Network Officer, will continue to lead their organizations at
Sprint and will report to Miyakawa. “Both Stephen and John have
done an excellent job in leading our technology development and
network operations and in improving our network performance.
Together with Miyakawa-san, we possess outstanding network and
technology leadership,” said Claure.
Miyakawa will remain an Executive Vice President and Board
Director at SoftBank Mobile, SoftBank BB and SoftBank Telecom, but
his main focus will be on Sprint.
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE:S) is a communications services company that
creates more and better ways to connect its customers to the things
they care about most. Sprint served more than 54 million customers
as of June 30, 2014 and is widely recognized for developing,
engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the
first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United
States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin Mobile USA,
Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and
international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. The American Customer Satisfaction Index rated
Sprint as the most improved U.S. company in customer satisfaction,
across all 43 industries, over the last six years. Sprint has been
named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America in
2011, 2012 and 2013. You can learn more and visit Sprint at
www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint and
www.twitter.com/sprint.
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