Barry West
Chief Technology Officer
&
President – Xohm
Sprint Nextel
Barry West is chief technology officer and president of the Xohm business unit for Sprint Nextel. He previously served as executive vice president and chief technology officer for Nextel Communications Inc.
West joined Nextel in 1996 and is the chief architect in creating the iDEN wireless technology platform with partner Motorola. Prior to joining Nextel, West led many successful engineering and marketing initiatives during more than 35 years for British Telecom, including overseeing the rollout of a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) digital cellular network that covered more than 90 percent of the United Kingdom population in only nine months. West also served as director of value-added services and corporate marketing at Cellnet, the pioneer of cellular communications in the United Kingdom.
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