NCTA honours Rogers' Nick Hamilton-Piercy

NEW ORLEANS – The technical leaders of the North American cable industry gathered in room 211 at the Ernest Morial Convention Center in New Orleans today to give one of the industry’s true engineering pioneers a retirement send-off. Rogers Communications Nick Hamilton-Piercy is officially retiring after over a half-century in cable and telecommunications, most of that with Rogers. “I was hoping just to slip off unnoticed,” he said this afternoon, visibly surprised by the planned get-together put together by NCTA staff. Hamilton-Piercy has been one of the titans of the technical and engineering side of the cable industry, notably leading...