McIntyre to lead Engineering and Operations team
ATLANTA, Nov. 4, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Southern Linc, a subsidiary of Southern
Company (NYSE: SO), has announced that Alan
McIntyre has been named the Vice President of Engineering
and Operations by the Southern Linc Board of Directors.
He will lead a team that is known for providing highly
reliable, highly resilient wireless voice and data services for
Southern Company systems and users and for local and state
government customers.
With 30 years of experience in wireless telecommunications,
McIntyre brings significant expertise and proven success to his new
role. Formerly, as Engineering Director at Southern Linc, he led
the company's LTE technology transformation, including development
of the plan and construction of two fully geographically redundant
core data centers, 1,300 LTE cell sites, and the installation of
VoLTE and mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) sub-systems that
resulted in thousands of conversions of voice and data devices to
LTE. He also participated in the international 3rd
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization that
adopted new specifications to facilitate Southern Linc's move to
LTE technology.
"We are thrilled to announce Alan's promotion at Southern Linc,"
said Bentina Terry, president and CEO of Southern Linc and Southern
Telecom. "Alan's vast experience, his significant contributions to
our company and the telecom sector, along with his humility and
dedication to Southern Company values, make him an excellent
addition to our executive team."
McIntyre has an extensive understanding of wireless spectrum. He
worked on the FCC's 800 MHz rebanding proceedings in the early
2000s which provided Southern Linc with contiguous spectrum as well
as the FCC proceeding during 2011-2012 that enabled broadband
operations in Southern Linc's spectrum band. More recently, he was
a member of auction teams within Southern Company that successfully
won licenses in multiple FCC-conducted spectrum auctions.
McIntyre holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and
a Master of Business Administration degree in Management
Information Systems from Auburn
University. In 2017, he began serving on the Auburn board
that provides strategic advice for the university's Wireless
Engineering Research and Education Center.
About Southern Linc
Southern Linc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company.
Southern Linc delivers highly reliable, highly secure LTE voice and
data services to Southern Company electric utilities as well as to
a wide range of businesses and public sector agencies across
Alabama, Georgia and southeastern Mississippi. The CriticalLinc™ network
provides over-the-air encryption from devices to towers and
supports encryption from towers to the network's core data
centers.
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