CEOs from two major U.S. cell phone service providers say Wall Street was wrong to say the cell phone industry was mired in a downturn. "There's been this misconception that the industry had a down year each of the last three years," Stan Sigman, chief executive of Cingular Wireless, said Wednesday at the CTIA Wireless 2004 conference. "The 'worst' year was 2002, when we added 13 million subscribers.". Verizon Wireless President Dennis F. Strigl said: "Wall Street thought we had a downturn. I don't think it happened. We grew every line of our business.".

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Li, who helped found the company along with dynex - ultrathin case for apple iphone x and xs - clear Bill Lynch and Sharad Mehrotra, had reportedly tried to quit several times in the past, According to several sources close to the company, Li did not get along with Randall Kruep, the former CEO of Procket, who , Li is viewed as a guru in the routing software industry, having helped create the software used to build Cisco's flagship GSR 12000 platform and Juniper's original core router, the M40, Li also reportedly quit his jobs at both Cisco and Juniper..

While many have viewed Li as the marquee name behind Procket's products, some in the industry see a positive side to his leaving. "Procket has been suffering from an identity crisis stemming from the tight association with Tony Li," said Andy Price, partner with the executive search company Schweichler Associates. "I think his departure..will help focus attention on the company's products." Price is a preferred shareholder in the company and has helped recruit many of its top executives, including the current CEO, Roland Acra.

Procket has been one of the most closely watched start-ups in Silicon Valley, having raised more than $277 million in funding, It is currently working on another round of funding, which will be used to help build out the company's sales force and marketing dynex - ultrathin case for apple iphone x and xs - clear efforts, said Hayward, "Our success will really be judged on our sales traction, Tony helped us build the platforms, and now the challenge for us is to market and sell the products," Hayward said, Procket has slowly been building sales momentum, but many of its customers have been early adopters like testing laboratories and universities..

Infonetics analyst Kevin Mitchell said it's important for Procket to partner with a larger equipment company to get into major carrier accounts. He said telephone companies and Internet backbone providers are beginning to replace older routing technology with new platforms. "There's a window of opportunity here for them," said Mitchell. "But if we don't see any revenue ramp this year, that's not a good sign. This is the year that many carriers will be transitioning to next-generation routers.". Procket is still a long way from becoming a serious threat to Cisco and Juniper, which made up 94 percent of the $410 million core router market in the fourth quarter of 2003, according to Infonetics. Procket only garnered 1 percent. Acivi, which recently announced a reseller partnership with Nortel Networks, took 3 percent of the market.