Glentel Inc GLNIF

RE: Do cell towers fall under business division?

[Robert40]

You are right kbrg35, unfortunately they do fall under "Glentel Business Division". I agree with you that Business division is one of the worst run division of any company. It started going down the drain when Glentel business center acquired Time MCI and Digital in the east. This started real political game of gaining control and east succeeded. This caused 3 out of 4 directors to join the competition. The very purpose of reducing competition in the market place was lost when Dan L stopped trusting educated experienced people from west and started trusting uneducated incompetent people like JMD and his cronies from the east. Moral was very low since and people are quiting left and right and joining competetion since. Not only their directors but competent sales force and entire technical/engineering crew from east and west were let go. This business is all about technical and engineering expertise as technology is changing daily. To keep a pace company of Glentel's size needs technical/engineering experts and not just installers or minor repair persons who don't care about specifications, wind factor or load factor in design (example tower in their main office crashed to ground with little wind last week, luckily it was holiday). Money is in systems design and bidding on large proposals, doing due diligenge talking to vendors in the same lingo as they are more educated than their counter parts in Glentel. In short Glentel business division lost expertise that it had. Glentel knew when spectrum auction was going on during last year. Now they can sell those towers city by city just like Nortel or GM and make hay while sun still shines. Dan L was hired as VP because he goes to the same church as Skidmore's and runs marathon? Administrator like him need not be technical but he can hire qualified experts to do the job for him. The way things are business center may loose more people to new companies and towers may sit idle. It is not the time for employees to work from home (which most of their senior employees do now), but to actively and agressively help Skidmore's to rent,lease or sale those towers. New companies will be spending billions of dollars and will take 4-5 years to get the required clearances, infrastructure and resources.  It is time to get wake up to new reality and hammer when iron is still hot. Actions should speak louder than words.