November 24th, 2008Team DAVE gets a new Dave
And then there was another one. Hot off the presses at the Post: Bitove taps president of wireless venture
The satellite radio and fast-food entrepreneur has tapped Dave Dobbin, the 38-year-old former Toronto Hydro Telecom president, to be president for his budding wireless venture, Data and Audio-Visual Enterprises (DAVE) Wireless, sources have confirmed to the Financial Post.
Mr. Dobbin is considered by many industry insiders to be a blue-chip executive that has shaken up the industry with two municipal-based telecommunications businesses and has the potential to aggressively elbow DAVE Wireless into the highly competitive wireless market.
“He’s known as a bit of a maverick,” said one telecom analyst who declined to be named.
WirelessNorth.ca had a chance to sit down with Dave almost a year ago and we came away both impressed, and with a delightful earful on the state and capabilities (or lack thereof) of the incumbent telcom networks in Canada. Anyway, congrats and good luck in the new gig with DAVE Dave.
DAVE is the one new entrant we saw as a wildcard amongst the new entrants. Not quite national, but they bought up spectrum in mostly urban areas in the west and Ontario.
Here’s the next big question. With more new and overlapping entrants officially announcing, are they really all going to build out each their own network or will the sharing agreements be coming next? it would make a LOT of of sense, if the new guys can come to terms. If even Bell and Telus need to do it…
