
by Martin Willoughby Published: March 5,2012
Tags: Argentina, Atlanta, Buenos Aires, C Spire, Codetel, CTI, Dominican Republic, Dr. Paul Hersey, Ericsson, Hamilton College, Iowa, Ken Blanchard, London, Management of Organizational Behavior, Martin Willoughby, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Oglethorpe University, Seattle, Sterling Illinois, The One Minute Manager, The Situational Leadership Theory, Verizon Wireless
Leadership theories tend to come and go like fads. However, one of the most enduring leadership concepts has been situational leadership. The Situational Leadership Theory was created in 1969 by Dr. Paul Hersey, the author of “The Situational Leader” and Ken Blanchard, the author of the international best seller “The One Minute Manager.” The theory [...] [...]
Cellular South recently changed its name to C Spire. I’m sure they paid a marketing firm a lot of money for that name. And I’m sure the marketing firm paid a lot of focus group people to sit around and rate various names. But, for the life of me, I can’t understand how they landed [...] [...]

The market fallout from C Spire’s iPhone deal and how that will affect its competitors, large and small, remains to be seen. Stocks for Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile closed at a… >>>SEE FULL STORY<<< [...]

by MBJ Staff Published: October 21,2011
Tags: agriculture, Apple, Apple iPhone 4S, banking, Banking & Finance, C Spire, Cat Island, Cellular South, Downtown Jackson, economic development, finance, immigration, iPhone, iPhone 4S, JACKSON, MBJ, Mississippi Business Journal, pumpkins, tourism, voter I.D.
In this week’s MBJ — THE NATIONAL TELECOM TAKE ON C SPIRE: Stephen McDill asks national telecom experts what they think of the new marriage between Apple Inc. and Ridgeland-based C Spire. You might be surprised at what they told the Mississippi Business Journal. Also in this week’s paper: >> VOTER ID: Will the National [...] [...]

by MBJ Staff Published: October 19,2011
Tags: 4G, acquisition, Alltel, Apple iPhone 4S, AT&T, C Spire, Cellular South, FierceWireless, Hu Meena, iPhone 5, IPO, Jimmy Creekmore, LTE, mergers and acquisition, smartphone, Steve Jobs, T-Mobile, Verizon Communications
PRE-REGISTRATION BEGINS TODAY; DEVICE WILL LAUNCH IN COMING WEEKS RIDGELAND — As the Mississippi Business Journal reported several weeks ago, C Spire, the regional wireless carrier previously known as Cellular South, will have the newest iPhone from Apple to offer its customers. C Spire announced today that it will launch iPhone 4S in the U.S. [...] [...]

In this week’s MBJ, Stephen McDill broke the national news that Cellular South is changing its name to C Spire Wireless. Cellular South is the nation’s largest privately-owned wireless company. The official announcement was made on the website www.personalizedwireless.com. Speculation had run rampant all week that hat the company was making major changes to its [...] [...]