Who is Tom Swisher?

Answer 1

Pioneer of ADSL field applications for GTE, Tom Swisher helped build the information superhighway in Central Ky. During the mid 80s he worked in construction placing hundreds of miles of fiber rings and links throughout Lexington, Ky and the surrounding counties. In the 90's when GTE and Fuji wanted to test broadband technology for the average customer, Mr. Swisher was in the initial group of field technicians who worked the bugs out of the system. He later was a member of AT&T's worldnet test group to see if phone techs would be able to install Ethernet cards in customers PCs while installing their broadband service. He completed over 80% of all the successful installations done by this work group unfortunately proving only an outstanding phone man was savvy enough to work on the customer's PCs during the mid 90's. His later work focused on transferring customers to better types of field and CO equipment and improving their broadband experience. His work was made more difficult by the series of acquisitions and mergers that were common in the last ten years of his service in telephony. He finally retired in 2007 from Windstream Communications at the young age of 50.