Lightyear Wireless
- Backed by a 17-year old telecommunications company
- 80,000 square foot world headquarters in Louisville, KY
- Over 100 employees to support customers and representatives
- Management team with over 40 years experience in Network Marketing
- Publicly traded (OTC: LYNS) federally licensed telecom company
- Accredited member of the Better Business Bureau with an "A" rating.
- CEO rated "One of the top 25 most influential people in telecommunications"
- CEO Sherm Henderson former chairman of Comptel
Our headquarters
Lightyear Wireless headquarters & data billing center in Louisville, KY.
Our Parent Company
Lightyear Network Solutions is the parent company of Lightyear Wireless and was founded in 1993. A Full Service Telecommunications Company, Lightyear Network Solutions is located in Louisville, Kentucky in a 80,000 square foot office complex, and is a member of the Better Business Bureau. Clients include JCPenny’s, Arby’s, Hertz, Applebee’s, among others
Lightyear Wireless
Lightyear Wireless was launched in July of 2008 as a direct sales division of Lightyear Network Solutions. Lightyear is the first company in the wireless industry to allow its representatives to earn true residual income on their customer’s bills.
Our company is dedicated to saving people money on products and services they are already using. Lightyear pays us generously for gathering customers and sharing the business opportunity with others. Lightyear Wireless has been a great financial blessing for us and I believe it could be for you as well.
Lightyear offers everything from local and long distance phone service, to broadband internet and, most excitingly, cell phones. Before entering the wireless industry, Lightyear’s flagship product was VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol. Although cell phones are all the rage these days and some people are choosing to forgo having a home phone, many still use Lightyear’s great VoIP service. To use our VoIP product, all you have to do is plug the VoIP box into any high speed connection and for $25/month it becomes your unlimited local and long distance phone service. Our VoIP product can also be taken anywhere in the world, plugged in, and free calls can be made back to the US and 17 other countries.
In July of 2008, our company was approached by several major wireless companies who offered to wholesale their cellular networks to us. Lightyear Wireless has since partnered with these companies and, as representatives, we now have the capability to sell cellular phones to customers and make residual income on their cell phone bills!
Company Leadership
Ron Mattingly, Vice President of Sales and Training
Ron started at Lightyear in 1999 as a Supervisor of Lightyear’s Customer Support Team who serviced Lightyear’s entire customer base. In 2001, Ron became Account Manager for several of Lightyear’s largest network marketing service clients and helped grow those companies to more than 100,000 customers nationwide. In 2002, Ron was promoted to Director over the entire Account Management division and stayed in that role until approached with the idea of helping to set up the infrastructure for Lightyear’s very own direct selling company. Since 2003, Ron has worked closely with the representatives of Lightyear and particularly close with the leaders in the field in order to create the most exciting and fastest growing entity within Lightyear.
Ron contributes his success to surrounding themselves with great people in Lightyear and also to strong representative base. He understands that consistent effort over a period of time will produce incredible results and they are committed to long-term success. With the launch of My Lightyear, Ron believes there will be millions who become part of our team. He feels strongly that to be successful in this industry, you must provide unique products and services on which people already spend money, and then give everyone an opportunity to get paid with the most dynamic compensation plan in the industry when they do so. What better product than wireless services to do that?
Sherman Henderson, Founder and CEO of Lightyear Network Solutions
After spending more than 20 years in telecommunications and leading Comptel.org, the industry’s largest association for the past six years, Sherman Henderson has seen it all and his personal accomplishments are second to none. In 1996, Sherman was named Entrepreneur of the Year. In 1999, he led Lightyear to #19 in Inc. Magazine’s fastest growing companies and as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Lightyear, Sherman has just completed a contract that will allow Lightyear to offer wireless service nationwide.
"This wireless project is bigger than anyone can imagine. I have been in the telecommunications industry for 20 years and have watched consumers evolve from using a stationary, land line telephone to cutting the cord and going wireless. Wireless communications has become the number one choice for making phone calls and will soon become the way everyone accesses the Internet."
"Today, 84% of all consumers already have a cell phone. That means the big companies will be aggressively marketing to each other’s customers to gain more market share. We have the perfect vehicle to gather customers in that environment. Everyone we know has a mobile phone yet none of us currently get paid when someone else - a family member, friend, neighbor - pays their mobile phone bill. Now we will. With over 254 million customers using wireless today, if we just get 1% of those customers to choose Lightyear, that’s 2.5 million customers. With an average bill of $60 per month, we will be a $150M per-month or $1.8B per-year company. And that’s just with a 1% market share!"
"Every person with a pulse will be jumping at this opportunity. In 1993, Lightyear gave hundreds of people the same opportunity in the long distance industry, to get paid on everyone’s long distance bill. The average bill was $20 per month and many became extremely wealthy. Now, the average customer spends at least $60 per month on wireless bills and the business is a lot bigger than it was in 1993. Surely, there will be a lot of people making a ton of money!"
Julie Riggs, Market Development
In 1999, Julie joined the Lightyear Team and has proven to be an integral part of its daily operations. Not only does she bring a wealth of knowledge in communications, management, and support, she is also responsible for the major success of every Lightyear Wireless National Conference. She also works exclusively with our VIP Representatives to help build and strengthen their organizations. As part of the Lightyear Wireless Management Team, she is committed to excellence, integrity, and leadership.
Julie brings 9 years of telecommunications and relationship selling experience to the company.
Jamie Pike, Director of Operations
Jamie began his career at Lightyear in 1997 supporting customers in a supervisory role. Jamie has tremendous knowledge of Lightyear's network support systems and has extensive experience managing the Lightyear Customer Support Center.
Jamie has 10 years of telecommunications and Lightyear network support experience.
Rhonda Jurgenson, Marketing Director
Rhonda brings to the team more than 15 years of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations experience.
A former ad agency executive and award winning graphic designer, Rhonda makes sure the Lightyear brand and collateral materials stay consistent and in the consumers view. From coordinating press conferences to creating corporate campaigns, she is hands-on in nearly everything pertaining to the company that comes in contact with the public and our Representatives. Rhonda has been with Lightyear since 2003.
