Infobox company company name AirTouch Communications, Inc. company logo Image 200px Airtouch.svg 200px AirTouch logo company type Category Defunct companies Defunct company slogan foundation 1994 location ... Airtouch.com fate Merged with Vodafone Group Plc into Vodafone Airtouch Plc predecessor Pacific Telesis successor Verizon Wireless AirTouch Communications was a U.S. based wireless telephone service ... web 19980222065911 www.airtouch.com airtouch contact Contact Information . AirTouch. Retrieved ... as AirTouch Communications in 1994. U S West s U S West New Vector was also created from AMPS. In July 1994, U S West agreed to a joint venture with AirTouch as a prelude to merging the cellular unit into AirTouch. By 1996, all accounts were operated under the AirTouch name. Due to regulatory issues ... 30, 1999, AirTouch Communications merged with UK based Vodafone Group Plc , becoming Vodafone AirTouch Plc. In September 1999, Vodafone AirTouch announced a 70 billion joint venture with Bell ... assets, Bell Atlantic Mobile another AMPS spinoff and AirTouch Cellular This wireless joint venture ... 45 . Verizon Wireless still maintains a call center in some of the buildings that used to house AirTouch ... U S WEST NewVector Group logo AirTouch Communications was formed when Pacific Telesis spun off PacTel ... 2526CONTENT ID 253D231202,00.html Vodafone ref In July 1994, AirTouch Communications and US West ... Group rebranded US West Cellular as AirTouch Cellular. ref http www.isworld.org onlineteachingcases cases USWest.pdf ref In April 1997, AirTouch tried to buy US West New Vector but missed the Morris ... 20639667 Federal tax legislation could force renegotiation of AirTouch U S West deal Mobile Phone News Find Articles at BNET Bot generated title ref In February 1998, AirTouch Communications bought US West New Vector from US West Media for 5.7 billion. This made AirTouch the second largest wireless ... final AirTouch to acquire U S West wireless properties Mobile Phone News Find Articles at BNET ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 For the original wireless provider spun off from Advanced Mobile Phone Service called PacTel Mobile Access AirTouch Image Pacific bell.png thumb Pacific Bell Wireless logo Pacific Bell Wireless, LLC is a wireless operating division of AT&T Mobility . It was founded in the mid 1990s, initially named Pacific Bell Mobile Services , as a means for Pacific Telesis to capitalize on the wireless market it had lost when it spun off AirTouch . Pacific Bell Wireless should not be confused with PacTel Mobile Access , which was spun off as AirTouch in 1994, later acquired by Vodafone . It was placed in its joint venture with Verizon , Verizon Wireless . Pacific Bell Wireless is legally known as Pacific Bell Wireless, LLC d b a Cingular Wireless . AT&T Category AT&T ... more details
AirTouch PacTel Mobile Access U S WEST NewVector PacTel Mobile Access and U S WEST NewVector are owned ... into AirTouch in 1994, and U S WEST NewVector was spun off and merged into AirTouch in 1997. AirTouch ... more details
Samuel L. Ginn born April, 1937 , a native of Anniston, Alabama , received a degree in industrial management from Auburn University in 1959. He is considered a pioneer in the wireless communications industry and is a retired chairman and CEO of Vodafone AirTouch, PLC. Ginn was appointed by Gov. Bob Riley for an at large seat on the Auburn University Board of Trustees in 2005. His term expires on February 16, 2012. His 25 million gift to the AU College of Engineering in 2001 helped fund a wireless engineering degree program and has helped vault Auburn into the nation s elite wireless research and teaching institutions. In recognition of the gift, the college was renamed the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. Ginn was elected a director of Chevron Corporation in 1989. He is a private investor and retired chairman of the board of Vodafone AirTouch, PLC. Previously, he was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AirTouch Communications, Inc., from 1993 to 1999 and chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Pacific Telesis Group from 1988 to 1994. He currently is a director of ICO Global Communications Holdings Limited, The Business Council, Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC and the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers. External links http www.auburn.edu administration trustees members.html Member of the Auburn University Board of Trustees http web.archive.org web 20070820003658 http www.chevron.com about company profile board bio ginn.asp Member of the Chevron Corporation Board of Directors Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ginn,Samuel ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1937 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ginn,Samuel Category Auburn University alumni Ginn, Samuel Category 1937 births Category Living people Category People from Anniston, Alabama US business bio 1930s stub ... more details
Infobox building name One California image caption alternate names Airtouch Building br Mutual Benefit Life location One California Street br San Francisco , California latd 37.7932 longd 122.3972 iso region US CA coordinates display title completion date 1969 building type Commercial offices roof convert 133.5 m abbr on floor count 32 elevator count cost floor area convert sqft abbr on architect Welton Becket Associates structural engineer main contractor developer Shorenstein Company owner management references ref emporis 118733 ref ref skyscraperpage 1844 ref ref structurae s0021837 ref One California is a skyscraper completed in 1969 in the Financial District, San Francisco, California Financial District of San Francisco , California . At convert 134 m abbr on , and 32 storey s, it is the List of tallest buildings in San Francisco 28th tallest building in the city. The architect who designed the building was Welton Becket Associates . The building was constructed on the site of the previously demolished Fife Building , and was one of the earliest skyscrapers constructed in the city. One California was one of three buildings, the other two being 555 California Street and the Crocker Building , that was featured in a 1970 Newsweek article widely thought to have coined the term Manhattanization . Fact date November 2010 When AirTouch was in operation, its headquarters were in One California. ref http web.archive.org web 19980222065911 www.airtouch.com airtouch contact Contact Information . AirTouch . Retrieved on January 10, 2010. ref As of 2010, the US Bank logo occupies the signage, although the building itself is still referred to as One California. The actual bank branch is located next door at 101 California Street . ref cite web author title U.S Bank Location Search Results url http www.usbank.com usbanklocations remoteSearch.jsp?searchType 1&service BRN&serviceType BRN&partner &ZIP &street 101 california st&city san francisco&state CA publisher U.S Bank date ... more details
other uses Proximus disambiguation Image bgc proximus.png right Proximus , also known as Belgacom Mobile , is the largest of Belgium s three mobile telephone company telecommunications operator s. It competes with Mobistar , owned by France T l com , and BASE mobile Base , a subsidiary of Dutch KPN . History Proximus was founded in 1994 as a joint venture between Belgacom , 75 , and Airtouch , 25 , respectively. Airtouch was later merged with Vodafone . In 2006, Belgacom bought the remaining Vodafone shares. Starting January 1994, Proximus took over the operatorship of the old MOB2 analog signal analog network, as well as the new second generation GSM network, originally only in the GSM 900 range. The obsolete MOB2 network was retired in 1999. When necessary, Proximus can also use GSM 1800 to complement its network. It was originally a de facto monopoly, but after deregulation Mobistar , a second GSM 900 operator soon joined the game in 1998, followed by BASE mobile BASE , then known as KPN Orange SA Orange in 1999. Proximus has just a little over 45 of the market now considered as saturated. Company Proximus NV SA is a subsidiary of Belgacom NV SA, which had an IPO in 2004 but remains more than 50 state owned. A 25 share was owned by the Vodafone Group until 2006, when Vodafone agreed to sell its stake to Belgacom. In 2004, it had a revenue of 2,239 million and an EBITDA of 1,135 million. Technical information The operator s display logo is PROXIMUS , the net code is 206 01 and operates under GSM 900 1800 2G GSM net and W CDMA 2100 3G UTMS frequencies. Its prepaid service is called Pay&Go . Mobile virtual network operator The Proximus network is used by a number of mobile virtual network operator s TMF Mobile MTV Networks Benelux MTV , Mobisud Scarlet , RSCA Mobile, PostMobile bpost External links http www.proximus.be Proximus website Belgian mobile operators Category Mobile phone companies of Belgium Category Belgacom Group Category Vodafone Category Belgian brand ... more details
Infobox person name Lowell McAdam image Lowell McAdam at Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2011.jpg image size caption birth date birth place death date death place occupation President and Chief Executive Officer CEO of Verizon Wireless alma mater Cornell University br University of San Diego small Master of Business Administration MBA small ref name bwprofile spouse religion nationality Lowell McAdam born c. 1954 is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Verizon . ref name bwprofile cite news url http investing.businessweek.com businessweek research stocks people person.asp?personId 1132479&ticker VZ US agency BusinessWeek title VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC ref Early life McAdam earned a bachelor s degree in engineering from Cornell University and a master s degree in business administration MBA from the University of San Diego . He also spent six years in the U.S. Navy s Civil Engineer Corps and is a licensed professional engineer. Career He was named to the Verizon CEO position in July, 2011 after serving since 2006 as the Chief Operating Officer for Verizon , and Chief Executive Officer of Verizon Wireless . Prior to that he was executive vice president and chief operating officer at Verizon Wireless. Prior to that he had been the CEO for Primeco, a wireless joint venture of AirTouch and Bell Atlantic. McAdam has served as vice president international operations for AirTouch Communications and was lead technical partner for cellular ventures in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Korea and Japan. McAdam joined AirTouch as executive director of international applications and operations in 1993. From 1983 to 1993, he held various executive positions with Pacific Bell, including area vice president of Bay Area marketing and general manager of South Bay customer services. On September 20, 2010 it was announced that McAdam would take up the role of president and chief operating officer of Verizon Communications Inc., the parent company of Verizon Wireless, on October 1, setti ... more details
, now of Click Here. AirTouch received takeover bids from Bell Atlantic , MCI Inc. MCI , and finally Vodafone , which was the winner and merged with AirTouch in January 1999. Later the same year, Bell Atlantic approached Vodafone Airtouch about merging all three wireless operations Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular , and PrimeCo Communications into a joint venture to be called Verizon ... headquarters would become the headquarters of the PrimeCo operations taken over by Vodafone AirTouch ... more details
, was spun off in 1994 into a new company called AirTouch Communications AirTouch , leaving Pacific ... company, thus leaving a new corporate culture to run the old Pacific Telesis. In 1999, Airtouch merged with Britain s Vodafone Group Plc to become Vodafone Airtouch PLC. In 2000, its U.S. wireless ... more details
COI date August 2010 Primary sources date June 2008 Barclay Knapp is a Senior Fellow in the Center for Financial Economics at The Johns Hopkins University , and has formed Charles Street Partners, to pursue financing and management opportunities in the telecommunications industry. He is known particularly for his role in co founding Cellular Communications Inc. CCI , serving as CFO and later as President and COO. CCI became one of the largest independent cellular system operators in the US, growing from start up to over 1.25 million customers by the time of its sale to Airtouch in 1996 for 2.5 billion. The company also gained widespread recognition as an award winning industry leader in marketing and customer service, with industry leading penetration, market share, and churn rate s. ref name Charles Street Partners http www.charlesstreetpartners.com executive bios.html Charles Street Partners Bot generated title ref In 1992, when the British Government gave UK cable TV companies permission to offer telephony over their own networks in competition with British Telecom , Barclay and his CCI co founder, George Blumenthal, seized the opportunity by acquiring cable franchises in Scotland, Wales, and suburban London. CableTel, was founded in 1993. ref name Charles Street Partners References references DEFAULTSORT Knapp, Barclay Category Johns Hopkins University alumni ... more details
other people Michael Gallagher Image MikeGallagher.jpg frame Michael D. Gallagher is the Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Information in the United States Department of Commerce and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration . He was the chief technology advisor to former President of the United States President George W. Bush . Gallagher was installed into office on October 14, 2003, via a recess appointment , bypassing United States Senate Senate approval. He has since been approved by the Senate. Before joining the Department of Commerce, Gallagher was vice president for state public policy at Verizon Wireless . Prior to that, he was managing director for government relations at AirTouch Communications , which was merger merged with Verizon. Gallagher previously served as administrative assistant to Washington U.S. state Washington United States House of Representatives Congressman Rick White politician Rick White and co chaired the government relations practice group at the law firm of Perkins Coie . Gallagher received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his Juris Doctor J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles . On May 17, 2007 the Entertainment Software Association announced Gallagher, former assistant secretary of commerce for communications and chief telecommunications and policy advisor to the Bush administration, would replace founder Doug Lowenstein as president. ref http www.gamespot.com news 6171036.html ESA selects new president by Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot, 2007 05 17 ref Internet governance Gallagher has opposed the proposals by the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance to remove the Internet and the Domain Name System DNS from the United States control. The proposals will be discussed at the World Summit on the Information Society in November 2005. Gallagher believes in private sector control of DNS. References Portions of this biography were taken from the White ... more details
BLP sources date April 2011 Paul Mandeville Hazen born 1941 is chairman of the board of directors of Accel KKR and KKR Financial Holding Corporation and the former chairman and chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Company . ref cite news url http people.forbes.com profile paul m hazen 47549 title Paul M. Hazen Profile work Forbes accessdate 16 April 2011 ref Hazen was born in Lansing, Michigan . He received his BS degree in finance from the University of Arizona in 1963 and his MBA degree from the University of California at Berkeley, California Berkeley in 1964. Starting his banking career with Security Pacific National Bank in 1964, he joined Union Bank in 1966 and Wells Fargo & Company in 1970. At Wells Fargo, Hazen was an executive with several of the banks subsidiaries, including serving as president of the Wells Fargo Real Estate Investment Trust, a publicly traded REIT, from 1973 to 1978. Moving up to the parent company, he was elected executive vice president of Wells Fargo in 1978 and vice chairman in 1981. Elected president and chief operating officer of Wells Fargo in 1984, Hazen led the bank through mergers with Crocker National in 1986 and Barclays Bank of California in 1988 and the recession of the early 1990s. He succeeded Carl E. Reichardt as chairman and chief executive officer in January 1995. While president of Wells Fargo, Hazen was elected a director of Safeway, Inc. , in 1990 and AirTouch Communications in April 1993. From February 1997 to November 1998, Hazen was president as well as chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo. He continued to serve as chairman until retirement in May 2001. With Vodafone Group Plc Hazen was elected a director in June 1999 and deputy chairman and lead independent director in May 2000, serving until 2006. Hazen was elected a director of Xstrata AG in 2000 and Xstrata Xstrata Plc in 2002. He was also elected a director of Willis Group Holdings Ltd. in 2001. In July 2004, Hazen was elected chairman of Accel KKR Company an ... more details
Orphan date May 2011 Kenneth John Hydon FCMA, FCCA, FCT born November 1944 is a British accountant who is a non executive director of three large FTSE 100 Index FTSE 100 companies Reckitt Benckiser , Tesco and Pearson PLC Pearson and was formerly the financial director of Vodafone . He is also a non executive director of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust , an acute general hospital in the United Kingdom UK . Education Ken is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants CIMA ref http www.cimaglobal.com CIMA ref Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ACCA ref http www.accaglobal.com ACCA ref Association of Corporate Treasurers ACT ref http www.treasurers.org ACT ref Career Vodafone Ken Hydon was among the cabal ref http business.timesonline.co.uk tol business movers and shakers article3142396.ece Cabal ref that included Sir Christopher Gent and Sir Julian Horn Smith who transformed Vodafone from a small subsidiary of Racal Electronics to one of the top 25 companies in the world. He was financial director of Vodafone from 1985 until he retired in 2005. He was closely involved in Vodafone s major transactions including the formation of Vodafone AirTouch in 1999 and the agreement to acquire Mannesmann in 2000. He was a member of the Board of Representatives of Verizon Wireless in the USA from 2000 until he retired in 2005. ref http www.vodafone.com content dam vodafone investors annual reports annual report accounts 2005.pdf Vodafone ref He previously joined Racal Electronics in 1977 and was financial director of several Racal subsidiaries. Reckitt Benckiser Ken was appointed as a Non Executive Director of Reckitt Benckiser in 2003. ref http annualreport2009.rb.com site RB09 Templates General.aspx?pageid 19&cc GB KennethHydon Reckitt Benckiser ref Tesco Ken was appointed a Non executive Director in 2004. ref http www.tescoplc.com plc ir rns rnsitem?id 1077531015nRNSW6934V&t popup rns Tesco PLC ref Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Ken j ... more details
Refimprove article date January 2008 Cleanup date January 2009 Arun Sarin Hindi born October 21, 1954 in Pachmarhi , Madhya Pradesh , India was the Chief executive officer CEO of Britain s Vodafone Group plc . On June 29, 2008, he announced his resignation as CEO of Vodafone Group. He is a senior adviser at the private equity firm KKR. He serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems and Safeway, Inc. He received an honorary knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on March 10, 2010. He is an American citizen. Sarin graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with a B.Tech degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1975. He was a resident of Azad Hall. He received the B C Roy gold medal for the best allround graduating student in 1975. In 1978 he gained a Master of Science MS in Engineering and an Master of Business Administration MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley . Prior to this he did his schooling from Military School, Bangalore Famously known as King George Royal Indian Military College, Bangalore . He excelled in studies, sports and co curricular activities. Citation needed date November 2008 He was known for his sharp intelligence and good sporting skills especially in hockey and boxing in school. Citation needed date November 2008 He started his career as a management consultant before moving, in 1984, to Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco. He was a director of AirTouch from July 1995 and was President and Chief Operating Officer from February 1997 to June 1999. He was then Vodafone s Chief Executive Officer for the United States and Asia Pacific region until 15 April 2000, when Vodafone s U.S. interests were merged into Verizon Wireless . He subsequently became chief executive of InfoSpace from 2000 to 2001, and of Accel KKR Telecom based in San Francisco from 2001 to 2003, while serving as a non executive director of Vodafone. He rejoined Vodafone as Chief Executive Designate ... more details
more footnotes date December 2009 Dennis F. Strigl is the retired ref http people.forbes.com profile dennis f strigl 5834 ref President and Vice Chairman of Verizon Communications , responsible for operations at Verizon Telecom, Verizon Wireless and Verizon Business. He assumed this position from January 2007. Previously he was the president and CEO of Verizon Wireless . Strigl was the lead executive in charge of integrating Verizon Wireless when that company was formed in April 2000, by combining the domestic wireless operations of Bell Atlantic , Vodafone AirTouch and GTE . Previously, he served as president and CEO of Bell Atlantic Mobile and group president and CEO of Bell Atlantic Global Wireless, the company s domestic and international wireless portfolio. As of 2006 , Strigl has served in the telecommunications industry for over 30 years. His telecommunications career began in 1968 with New York Telephone company. After this, he held positions at AT&T and Wisconsin Telephone Company, before becoming vice president of American Bell, Inc. He became president of Ameritech Mobile Communications . Strigl launched the nation s first cellular telephone network in Chicago, resulting in the Cellular Industry Achievement Award, which he was given for engineering advancement and pioneering in marketing programs. Applied Data Research, Inc. was the next company he served for as president and chief executive officer. Starting in 1989, Strigl served as vice president product management for Network Services, followed by his later position as vice president operations and chief operating officer and a member of New Jersey Bell s board of directors. He was named president and CEO of Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems in 1991, and oversaw its merger with Metro Mobile CTS. In 1995, Bell Atlantic Mobile and Nynex Mobile merged. Strigl took over the company as CEO and vice president. Strigl served on the Board of Directors of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association , the ... more details
which is the current location of the city s New Year s festivities. Prior to its disestablishment, AirTouch ... District. ref http web.archive.org web 19980222065911 www.airtouch.com airtouch contact Contact Information . AirTouch. Retrieved on January 10, 2010. ref ref World Airline Survey. Flight ... more details
Infobox person name The Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth image caption birth date Birth date and age 1937 03 30 df yes birth place Blackheath, London Blackheath , Kent , United Kingdom nickname Ian Charter MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth Deputy Lieutenant DL , born 30 March 1937 is a British businessman who has been Chairman of Vodafone and Chairman and Chief Executive of Tesco . He is a former Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board and a former Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire . Ian MacLaurin was born in 1937 in Blackheath, London Blackheath , Kent . He attended Malvern College as a pupil. Career Tesco MacLaurin joined Tesco in 1959 as a management trainee, then held a number of more senior appointments in its retail operations before being appointed to its Board in 1970. He was appointed Managing Director in the 1970s and became Chairman in 1985. By the time of his retirement in 1997 Tesco had overtaken Sainsbury s to become the largest UK retailer. MacLaurin lead Tesco away from the pile it high, sell it cheap business philosophy of founder Jack Cohen businessman Jack Cohen . He has claimed his most important act was appointing the right successor, Terry Leahy . ref cite news title Store wars 10 ways Tesco took the lead work The Guardian publisher Guardian Newspapers page 19 date 2004 10 20 accessdate 2007 03 26 ref Vodafone Ian MacLaurin joined Vodafone as a non executive director in 1997, becoming Chairman in July 1998. He stepped down on the merger with AirTouch Communications Inc in 1999, resuming his role a year later. Upon his retirement from the Board in July 2006, he became an adviser to the Company. He was succeeded as Chairman by John Bond banker Sir John Bond . He also became Chairman of the Vodafone Group Foundation , an independent charitable trust set up to administer charitable and other donations on behalf of the Company. Other MacLaurin is a Supervisory Board member of Heineken International . MacLaurin has always been en ... more details
Image Sir Julian Horn Smith.jpg thumb right 250px Sir Julian Horn Smith is a British businessman who is a member of the boards of a number of international corporations. He was formally Deputy Chief Executive of Vodafone Vodafone Group Plc until July 2006. Sir Julian joined Vodafone at its foundation in 1984 and has held a number of senior posts including Group Chief Operating Officer, Managing Director Vodafone International and Deputy Group CEO . Considered a principal architect in the development of Vodafone s Global Strategy, during his career with the company he was closely involved in many of Vodafone s major international transactions, including the formation of Vodafone AirTouch in 1999. This merger of the UK and U.S.businesses created one of the top 25 companies in the world by market capitalisation. The subsequent acquisition of Mannesmann in 2000, almost doubled the size of the Vodafone Group to making it the world s largest mobile phone mobile telecommunications company and the largest FTSE100 quoted stock. In 1996 he was appointed to the Vodafone Group Plc Board and in 2005 became Deputy Chief Executive. Sir Julian was instrumental in the foundation of many of Vodafone s large subsidiary businesses today such as those in Turkey,Ireland, Netherlands, South Africa, Egypt and several others in Europe, Africa and Asia . Early Life, Education and Honours Sir Julian was born in London and attended Kings Norton Grammar School in Birmingham. He read Economics University of London B.Sc Econ 1970 and Business Administration with Finance and Marketing M.Sc. University of Bath 1979 . ref http www.bath.ac.uk alumni newsite Pdfs ba2jul07.pdf Upwardly Mobile , BA2 Magazine 2008. ref In 2007 Sir Julian received an honorary doctorate Doctor of Laws DL from the University of Bath where he is now pro chancellor and a member of the University Council. In 2004 he received a knighthood in the Queen s Birthday Honours for his services to international telecommunications. ref ... more details
purchase of AirTouch Communications AirTouch Communications, Inc. and changed its name to Vodafone Airtouch plc . The merged company commenced trading on 30 June 1999. ref cite news first Nick last Hasell ... s Quest Begins With AirTouch Alliance work Investor s Business Daily date 8 June 1999 accessdate 4 ... owned 98.6 of its customers at that date. Before this joint venture was formed, Vodafone merged with AirTouch Communications of the U.S. in June 1999, and changed its name to Vodafone Airtouch plc. In September 1999, Vodafone Airtouch announced a 70 billion joint venture with Bell Atlantic Corp. Verizon Wireless was composed of Bell Atlantic s and Vodafone AirTouch s U.S. wireless assets, and began ... operator into the global behemoth that it is today, through the merger with the American AirTouch and the takeover ... more details