Kangas, Albert–NewCore Wireless

Albert Kangas
General Manager and Chief Executive Officer
NewCore Wireless

Albert Kangas is one of the leading experts in wireless communications. Starting his career in wireless communications in 1990 with Pacific Telecom Cellular in Appleton, Wisc., he worked on all aspects of engineering and operating a wireless network. These functions included performing site design, site maintenance, switch maintenance and network planning. He later accepted the role of director of network engineering and operations at St. Cloud Wireless Holdings. The network and department expanded from a single employee and a small network of 8 wireless sites to a department of 30 employees and, more than 400 wireless sites. Soon, a new company was formed by the St. Cloud Wireless Holdings ownership group that became Northern PCS, an affiliate of Sprint PCS. During this time, Kangas guided the team through technology changes, network expansions, system integrations and finally transitions to Verizon and Sprint as the companies were eventually sold to those larger carriers. Today, Kangas is the general manager of NewCore Wireless based in St. Cloud Minn. NewCore Wireless is a full service hosted switching company that performs 2G and 3G switching functions for wireless carriers that do not own and operate their own switching platform due to their cost and complexity. Currently this network is servicing approximately 300 wireless sites. Albert oversees the business and technical operations of the company and is also active in the day to day operations of the network, including RF and network optimization for the NewCore partners.