June 2013
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carriers, it is quickly deploying targeted solu-
tions to service specific target markets.
PIONEERING
PROFESSIONALS
Text messaging and mobile Internet access
has become such a common capability that it
seems increasingly difficult to consider how
the world could have ever functioned before
these services came into existence. ClearSky
founders Bill Poellmitz and Dean Fresonke
were among the experts who helped usher in
a new era of wireless data communications.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s,
Poellmitz was a director for three different
cellular telephone companies operating in
the Caribbean and also travelled extensively,
developing distribution channels for high-
tech products in Latin America and China.
During this same era, Fresonke worked in
research and development for AT&T Bell
Laboratories. Fresonke was among the team
working on the first computer chips for
Global System for Mobile Communications
(GSM), the European standard for digital
mobile phones that went on to become the
world standard. Seeing a trend on the hori-
zon, Fresonke left AT&T to launch a con-
