Shane Burnstun

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Country: Canada
Email: shane [at] fairviewwireless.com
Website:

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Shane Burnstun is the Chairman and CTO of the Canadian startup, Fairview Wireless.[1]

Fairview Wireless

In 1997, Shane Burnstun and his partner Don McLeod sold the IP infrastructure business MaxNet Services Inc., which eventually merged with AT&T Canada. Then, in 2000, Shane Burnstan, along with Don McLeod and Eddie Wong, came up with the idea for a new business operation: to create an IP service platform for the wireless broadband industry. This is how Fairview Wireless was born, its main offices are in Vancouver, Canada.

The business plan developed by Shane Burnstun also focused on a WISP for small communities and college campuses. His solution was based on NTPayMaster, including a complete and integrated billing system. [2]

Fairview Wireless was the main provider for wireless and optical services to the conference hotel for ICANN's Vancouver meeting in 2005.

Professional Experience

Shane Burnstun has over 30 years of information technology and telecommunications experience and he has the following professional experience:

  • For 10 years he worked at IBM within the mainframe computer environments, he later switched to working for manufacturers.
  • He occupied senior positions in customer support, product development, marketing and sales management departments within companies like HP, Honeywell, Sperry Univac and AT&T.
  • In 1994, Shane Burnstun co-founded MaxNet Services Inc., a network services company that specialized in secure Internet delivery. This company was sold to MetroNet Communications in 1997. Shane became the National Director of MetroNet and stayed with the company until the merger with AT&T Canada in 1999. [3]

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