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His knowledge of telecommunications has served, most notably, the American Heritage Invention and Technology Magazine and The History Channel.
His interview on Alexander Graham Bell will air on the History Channel the end of 2006.

Ken Schmidt

Ken is a licensed attorney who has worked in the tower industry for seven years. He has managed the development of broadcast towers nationwide and developed and built cell towers.

He has been quoted in newspapers and magazines on issues regarding cell towers and has spoke at industry and non-industry conferences on cell tower related issues.

He is recognized as an expert on cell tower leases and due diligence processes for tower acquisitions.

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July 11, 2006

Posted by Ken Schmidt & Mark van der Hoek at 07:41 PM

Cingular accused of deceiving customers (Yahoo!)

This story has personal interest to me. I am a previous AT&T Wireless Customer (Blue Network) who has my own stories about Cingular's attempts to force me to switch to the Orange Network (Cingular). I personally have had to buy an unlocked GSM phone and pay $25 for an AT&T sim card.

20 million former AT&T Wireless customers are being represented in a class action lawsuit that alleges Cingular downgraded their service and breached contract after the companies merged in 2004. The cingular lawsuit contends that the TDMA networks of AT&T Wireless were not maintained and forced customers to switch to a Cingular plan or pay an early termination fee.

A cingular lawsuit in California imposed a $12.1 million fine against the wireless phone provider. The founder of the watchdog group that filed the lawsuit, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, estimates that "ten of millions" of AT&T Wireless customers were effected.

Cingular has denied the allegations of the lawsuit, but stated that last year $6.5 billion was spent improving its network.

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