Margaret Rice-Jones, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Motorola Networks’ Core Networks business, and as such a very senior body within Motorola’s 3G and 4GH networks division, has left the company to take up the top job at Aircom.
Aircom provides OSS, network planning and optimisation solutions to the mobile industry, and its previous ceo and founder Steve Mockford has taken a new role as head of business development Northern Europe and Africa.
“It is a privilege to be joining a successful company at such an exciting time in its history”, Ms. Rice-Jones says, “We are seeing growth in every region, and with technologies changing rapidly, complexity growing and customers looking for ever shorter times to market new services, they increasingly turn to other people to support their network engineering needs. I believe that AIRCOM is well on its way to become one of the leaders in the next generation of OSS companies, and I intend to see it fulfil all of its potential.”
Rice-Jones is well known within the mobile industry, and represents a loss to Motorola, which has struggled in 3G, and now has its hopes pinned on “beyond” 3G technologies.
She was recognised in 2000 by the GSM Association as one of the initial 100 members in honour of her long-term commitment to the GSM market.