It's not all about Steve: Apple's Jobs honors iPhone partner at Wireless Hall of Fame
AT&T Mobility's Sigman, 3 others honored for wireless achievements
By Alpha Doggs on Thu, 10/07/10 - 8:27am.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at this week's Wireless Hall of Fame reception in San Francisco to honor inductee Stan Sigman, who as CEO of AT&T Mobility in 2005 joined forces with Jobs to develop the iPhone.
"Steve called me at home late one evening," Sigman said. "We had just introduced a Motorola phone that had iTunes on it and Steve had a vision of doing more with the device than that. Keep in mind when we first decided to come together and develop the iPhone, we didn't have a prototype. Steve and I had not seen a phone - we just had confidence in our respective organizations that we could do this."
Also entering the Wireless History Foundation's Hall of Fame this year:
Ted Rogers, founder of Canada's largest wireless telecommunications and cable companies; Roy Carlson, who started TDS, one of the top independent telephone companies in the U.S.; and Ray Trott, a mobile radio technology pioneer.
(Photo via Coracle Group)
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