Sunrise strengthens its management
Rolf Kühne joins Sunrise's management team with immediate effect in the role of Chief Technology Officer CTO. Rolf Kühne has held various management positions at Sunrise since April 2008, most recently as the person responsible for carrier relations, partner management and for cooperations with municipal utilities for the roll-out of fiber optic networks.
Under his leadership, the unbundling of the last mile took place in 2008 following the revision of the Telecommunications Act at that time and the realization of access to the municipal fiber-optic networks. Prior to that, he held various management positions at Swisscom in the area of network and operations.
As project manager of the Top Quality Net network program, Rolf Kühne has been dealing with the future expansion, operation and maintenance of the mobile and fixed network according to the highest quality standards, according to a Sunrise release on Tuesday. As CTO, he will assume responsibility for the already ongoing Switzerland-wide expansion of the mobile network to the UMTS900 standard for split-second data connections at up to 42 Mbps, together with the new technology partner Huawei. The expansion in the fixed network area to the latest fiber optic technology in selected cities is also to be significantly advanced under the new CTO, as Sunrise further writes in the release. With the appointment of Stefan Wegener as CIO and the arrival of Rolf Kühne as CTO, which was announced on May 15, 2012, Sunrise is expanding its management team and placing a stronger focus on the expansion of its fixed and mobile network infrastructure as well as on the entire IT architecture.
