Before becoming an independent consultant, he was a technology specialist and product strategy manager at Sprint in Overland Park, KS, and is named on 17 patents filed by Sprint. Prior to entering telecom, Geddes built large transactional systems at Oracle Corporation.

Geddes is now chief analyst at STL, and one of the creators of the Telco 2.0 initiative. This is a conference, consulting, and market analysis business which helps network operators and vendors continue to make money in an all-IP world.

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