BEH Communications is led by an experienced management executive that has over 30 years of experience in the Telecommunications and related industries. This executive believes in working closely with all customers to insure they are provided with the highest quality service possible at a competitive price. Background information on the company’s executive follows:
Shane Baggs (President/GM)
A native of Cedar City, Utah,
Shane began his Tele-Communications career in 1983 working with
E.A. Schenck Construction building cable television
systems. In
1985 Shane joined Tele-Communications, Inc., (“TCI”) the
largest multiple system operator in the U.S. at the time, where he
served in
all aspects of the cable operation. Shane transferred to Price, Utah
in 1990
to serve as
Technical Operations Manager for TCI where he managed over 20,300 subscribers
across 41 systems throughout Rural Utah and Northern Arizona.
In 1998 Peak Cablevision acquired the TCI systems in Rural Utah and Northern Arizona along with Halcyon Communications which owned certain systems in Utah and Nevada, bring the total subscriber base to over 24,000 across 47 seperate Rural Cable Systems. Shane became General Manager for Peak Cablevision, managing the entire Utah, Nevada and Arizona region. His responsibilities included preparing and managing operating and capital budgets, franchise acquisition and renewal efforts, ensuring system profitability, and overseeing Engineering and Technical operations to ensure smooth operations.
In November of 1999, Peak Cablevision entered into a management agreement with TCI whereby Peak would manage certain Rural Cable Systems in Utah totaling over 6,000 subscribers bringing Shane’s management responsibilities to 30,000 subscribers and over 50 employees.
In May 2002, Precis Communications acquired the Peak Cablevision systems in Rural Utah, Arizona and Nevada where Shane served as Director of Operations.
In April 2006, Shane’s management responsibilities expanded under a management agreement between Precis Communications and Rapid Management Group to include an additional 10,000 subscribers in cable systems located throughtout Rural California, Nevada, Arizona, Washington and Oregon. This extended his management responsibility to cover over 50 Rural cable systems with three satellite offices spanning seven states--the "Rapid Management Group Western Region". Under this management group Shane served as Western Region General Manager. As part of the Management Team at Rapid he was involved deploying Highspeed Wireless Internet Services throughout the Western Region as part of a larger Wireless Deployment across the United States VIA Rapid's Eastern, Centeral, East Texas and West Texas Regions.
In Feburary 2009, Shane founded BEH Communications to provide advanced telecommunications services in the Southeastern Utah Area, including the deployment of Highspeed Wireless Internet Services. BEH stands for Shane's Three wonderful children; Brad, Emily and Haley.
Some of Shane’s most
significant career achievements include building a $1.3 million
Satellite Uplink Facility
in Murray,
Utah to deliver Salt Lake City Broadcast stations to Rural Cable
Television Companies throughout Southern Utah, Eastern Nevada and Southern
Idaho.
Successful deployment of Broadband Internet services to multiple markets
in Utah,
Nevada, California and Washington using both wired and wireless
technology,
converted
a 110
mile analog
point-to-point
microwave link to a 45 Meg digital link, built an 84 mile fiber backbone
connecting twelve Rural Communities collapsing six separate cable
systems into one giant
network,
and developed a successful in-house Comercial Television Ad Sales Operation
for the purpose of cross-channel advertising.
In addition, Shane
served on the following boards and councils:
The Board of Directors at Auto West Inc
Southeastern Utah Region Employer Council
Utah Cable Television Association, Served as Board Chairman during 2002, 2003 & 2007
Carbon County Chamber of Commerce Exitive Board of Directors, served as Chamber President during 2005
Southeastern Utah Mirco-Enterprise/Business growth Revolving Loan Fund Administrative Board