11/02/06

Contact: Dina Kanellos, (334) 844-2203 (kaneldi@auburn.edu)
Mike Clardy, (334) 844-9999 (clardch@auburn.edu)

CINGULAR WIRELESS EXECUTIVE AND AU ALUMNUS TO BE LOWDER VISITING EXECUTIVE IN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

AUBURN - Edgar L. Reynolds, president of network operations, Cingular Wireless, will be the Lowder Visiting Executive in Residence in the Auburn University College of Business on Friday, Nov. 3.

Reynolds oversees all phases of wireless network engineering, construction, operations and maintenance to ensure high quality network service throughout Cingular.

A joint venture between the domestic wireless divisions of AT&T and BellSouth, Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless company in the United States, with more than 58 million subscribers who use the nation’s largest digital voice and data network.

During his visit to Auburn, Reynolds will speak to several business classes and participate in a student roundtable discussion. Members of the community are invited to join students at 1 p.m., in 129 Lowder, as Reynolds speaks to the undergraduate marketing strategy course.

Reynolds previously served as president of BellSouth Mobility, BellSouth’s largest wireless company that provides wireless service across seven southeastern states. Prior to that, Reynolds served as president of BellSouth Mobility DCS and American Cellular Communications Corporation.

BellSouth Mobility DCS was the first Personal Communications Services (PCS) system in the Southeast, covering the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal Georgia. American Cellular Communications Corporation had wireless territories in California, Texas, Indiana and Hawaii.

Reynolds also served as president of BellSouth Wireless, Inc., where he was responsible for BellSouth’s worldwide wireless communications strategy, and for the development of test marketing of new wireless features and technologies.

An Alabama native, Reynolds has been in the wireless industry for seventeen years, and has more than 38 years experience in telecommunications. He serves on the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council, the Wireless Advisory Board and The Electrical and Computer Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Auburn. He was inducted into the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame in 2002.

Reynolds earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University and holds an MBA from the University of Alabama.

The Robert and Charlotte Lowder Visiting Executive-in-Residence Program provides students and faculty with an opportunity to interact with prominent executives for an open exchange of views on current issues. Through this program, executives are brought into the classroom to offer students first-hand information about the complexities of the business world, while giving them the inspiration they need to seek new ways to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

The Auburn University College of Business and the School of Accountancy are accredited at the undergraduate and graduate levels by AACSB International, the highest standard of achievement for business schools. Institutions that earn accreditation confirm their commitment to quality and continuous improvement through a rigorous and comprehensive peer review. Less than one third of U.S. business schools and only 15 percent of business schools worldwide meet the rigorous standards of AACSB International accreditation.

Auburn University is a preeminent land-grant and comprehensive research institution with more than 23,500 students and 6,500 faculty and staff. Ranked among the top 50 public universities nationally, Auburn offers more than 230 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs.

(Contributed by Dina Kanellos.)

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