A. Jerry Rice retired from Bellsouth in 1994 after 30 years with the company. Twenty eight of those years were in Birmingham Alabama. Then working as a telecommunication consultant until 2017 in assignments all over the world. Now retired and living in North Carolina."Alabama To Australia The Optus Experience"Writing about the Optus Experience was a joy to me, almost like doing it all over again. I also learned things I didn't know until writing the book. I learned I was the first American to ever receive a TEXT message over a cell phone. This Text Message was received while testing (GSM Release 2 Short Message Service) in Perth Australia during September 1993, the message was from Johnnie Cheung, he said "Hi Jerry" and I responded with "Hi". This event was so insignificant at the time, as we simply failed to recognize how TEXTING would evolve. I haven't texted a dozen times since that test! I also learned from this review how exceptional this small Bellsouth Group truly was and I wish I could have been a fly on the wall during their selection process."A Gift For My Granddaughters" was equally enjoyable to write as I went back to the era myself during the writing and enjoyed all the old relationships again, it was like a great dream! I hope all you Grandmothers and Grandfathers will consider doing the same for your Grandkids, I do believe they will be grateful."Raleigh To Manila, Life In The Third World" This book tells of a family moving to the Third World to help start a telephone company serving cities in the Philippines that never had telephone service before. It is something to help start a telephone company from ground zero in Australia to become that countries second carrier. It is mind boggling to start telephone exchanges in cities of 100,000 people that have never had telephone service. I think all Telcom People will think this interesting as most of us were caretakers of an existing network during our Bell System careers. "The Sudo Telecom Spy" A novel describing the government playing catch-up on captured intelligence data with the explosion of new telephone companies after equal access and after the wireless spectrum auctions. Follow Jake Rece as he helps close this intel shortfall.Read more about this authorRead less about this author