Mission Statement
Our goal is to improve quality of life through innovative but reliable technology in every community we serve. We serve our Customer’s needs by creating innovative solutions that make technology easier, better, faster, more cost effective, and more useful. As a result, we let our competitors chase us.
A Community Company
Red Rock, like its predecessor company MTI, is dedicated to community service, working with local, state, and national charitable organizations. Our leadership and staff are committed to community based charities and served on boards of numerous charity organizations, worked with a variety charitable organizations. Red Rock hires veterans of the U.S. military, including service disabled veterans. Red Rock is committed to diversity and opportunity within its workforce.
Red Rock Telecommunications
Red Rock develops purpose-built networks for business customers that are cost effective, easier to maintain, and functional at the user level. As an Internet Service Provider, Red Rock partners with several larger ISPs to provide appropriate bandwidth to businesses that is affordable, business mission scalable, and reliable to the highest levels of industry standards. In addition, Red Rock operates its own telephone switches, its own secure network, and provides co-location security and bandwidth to its customers at its central Phoenix facility.
Red Rock and its partners for this project, have built hundreds of complex fiber networks during the last twenty years. The fiber networks in these projects range from large urban networks to large rural projects spanning multiple states, with significant variances in mean ambient temperatures, topography, and infrastructure density.
Rural Roots
Red Rock is committed to providing high tech, low cost, efficient and reliable communication services to the rural community. Our predecessor company, MTI, was the largest provider of telephony services to the rural communities of Arizona. It served customers in almost every county in the state. It provided much needed telephony services in areas not readily serviced by Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC) and the incumbent local exchange carriers (ILEC). This included operating thousands of T-1 lines throughout the state. Red Rock shares these same goals.Red Rock Leadership Team
Jack Pleiter, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, started Mountain Telecommunications, Inc. (MTI), a competitive local exchange carrier in 1997, growing the company to more than 20,000 corporate customers with annual revenues in excess of $20.0 million. In 2006, Mr. Pleiter sold MTI to Echelon Telecom for $40.4 million. While at MTI, Jack executed a successful Verde Valley test of Broadband over Power Lines in 2004. Jack worked with Dr. Lee at Pac Tel Cellular in developing the modern cellular network including roaming, immediate activation, and real time billing. With more than 25 years in telecom/cellular/network development Jack is exceptionally positioned to lead Red Rock.
Clay Templin, Chief Operating Officer - Served for 4 years in his current position and is responsible for compliance, corporate and administrative services in the company. Prior to joining Red Rock Clay served for 37 years in leadership positions at the local, state and regional levels for both the United States Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. He has extensive international experience and has worked with many different governments and agency disaster authorities around the world. Clay received his B.S in Natural Resource Management from the University of Arizona.
Shane Gregory, Vice President of Operations, has 40 years of progressive IT/IP data processing and telecommunications skills. He held numerous technical managements positions at Pennzoil, EDS, Sunquest Information Systems, Mountain Telecommunications Inc, and Saddleback Communications. Highlighted accomplishments include relocating an entire data center and building a new one from inception to completion. Founded a VoIP company on new soft switch infrastructure once VoIP was deregulated. Shane routinely works with new technology to improve network management, capability, and reliability. Shane received his higher education training at the University of Arizona, Pima Community College and Pacific Western University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.
Chris Pleiter, Vice President - Broadband over Powerline Development, he has served in a variety of capacities with Red Rock Telecommunications including IT support, administrative and BPL research and development.
Lance McGee, Director, Network Infrastructure, has over 35 years Senior Engineering experience in Telecommunications/Data Communications to include 3 years at University of California system as the Data Communications Manager and 4 years with Riverside County Schools. Last level technical response for multi-billion-dollar organizations involved in communications, education, healthcare. Lance specializes in local (LAN) and wide area communications (WAN). Lance has an expertise in server and workstation OS virtualization and communications. Lance received his higher education at California State Polytechnic University- Pomona Electronics 1979 and San Bernardino Valley College Telecommunications 1977.
Roy Stewart, Consultant, Manager Field Construction, Roy has over thirty-seven years of experience managing the construction of cellular sites, building microwave towers, developing and installing data center electrical systems, and designing and installing fiber systems (overhead and underground). Stewart Electric, and its related companies, was formed in 1957. In 2016, Roy left Stewart Electric to focus on consulting on regional and national fiber installation projects throughout the United States. In 2017, Roy agreed to serve as a consultant managing field construction of projects and assist with the development of Broadband over Powerlines for Red Rock Telecommunications.