T-Mobile USA Inc.’s (DTEGY) national director of M2M, John Horn, is leaving the company to join RACO Wireless as president and bring most of his team of 25 strong over with him. T-Mobile has no financial stake in the M2M outfit, but it’s had a contract with the company for 10 years, the last seven of which have been focused on M2M.
“What we’ve done is taken the front end of T-Mobile and moved that over to RACO,” Horn told RCR Wireless News. The business development team at T-Mobile
will be moving over to RACO Wireless in the next 30-60 days, he added.
“This will allow us as RACO Wireless to onboard customers not in weeks, but in days, in hours,” Horn continued. “There will be about 3 people that will stay at T-Mobile that will manage our RACO Wireless relationship, but the rest of the team will migrate over.”
As for where things might shake out if AT&T Inc.’s acquisition of T-Mobile goes through, Horn is trying to focus on the lay of the land as it is today.
“At this point in time we’re going to take away as much business from them as we can,” he said. Post acquisition, Horn said he is confident AT&T will find the same value in RACO Wireless as T-Mobile has for the past decade.