South Korea's SK Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent packet optical transport solution to upgrade its nationwide wireless data network. The project is currently being deployed.
The new backhaul network will play a significant role in supporting the customer's high capacity traffic as well as offering of QoS-based services. In addition, it will support its WCDMA traffic and lay a solid foundation for SK Telecom's future LTE-based services.
"With our innovation leadership in optical transport and wireless network solutions, we are committed to support our Korean customers smooth evolution to the LTE era," said Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of Alcatel-Lucent's activities in Asia-Pacific. "Leveraging our High Leverage Network architecture, we will ensure that service providers can build and equip a converged infrastructure that enables scalable and efficient traffic transmission and offering of value-added services."
Article published on 27th August 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
China and India Spending Freeze Dulls Mobile Infrastructure Market
Worldwide revenue for mobile switching subsystem (MSS) and packet core equipment grew during the second quarter, reports Infonetics Research, while radio access network (RAN) and home location register (HLR) equipment revenue declined. The end result was a relatively stable quarter for the overall mobile infrastructure market, down 0.9% in 2Q10 from 1Q10, from $8.8 billion to $8.7 billion.
Ericsson retains the top position for overall macro RAN equipment revenue market share, although Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent each gained more or less 2 percentage points, pushing Nokia Siemens closer to Ericsson than it's been all year, and pushing ALU ahead of Huawei for the first time since early 2009.
In 2Q10, aside from the fundamental lack of activity in China and India, the mobile infrastructure market was marked by sustainable 3G and CDMA upgrades in North America, prolonged weakness in Europe across the board, and an uptick in Africa and Latin America.
"It's been a tough year so far for the mobile infrastructure market, mainly due to the absence of spending in China and India. Last year, China spent like mad on its massive 3G rollout. This year, India was supposed to pick up some of the slack, but due to a combination of bans on Chinese vendors and a delayed spectrum auction, the spending virtually stopped in 2010. In fact, our analysis of capital expenditures by the three Chinese service providers in the first half of 2010 indicates that they have spent only 12% of their planned 3G budgets! The postponements in GSM upgrades and modernization will need to be addressed soon, and we are likely to see some interesting pick-up in both 3G in China and 2G in India in the second half of 2010," expects Stéphane Téral, principal analyst for mobile and FMC infrastructure at Infonetics Research.
Article published on 27th August 2010
Ericsson retains the top position for overall macro RAN equipment revenue market share, although Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent each gained more or less 2 percentage points, pushing Nokia Siemens closer to Ericsson than it's been all year, and pushing ALU ahead of Huawei for the first time since early 2009.
In 2Q10, aside from the fundamental lack of activity in China and India, the mobile infrastructure market was marked by sustainable 3G and CDMA upgrades in North America, prolonged weakness in Europe across the board, and an uptick in Africa and Latin America.
"It's been a tough year so far for the mobile infrastructure market, mainly due to the absence of spending in China and India. Last year, China spent like mad on its massive 3G rollout. This year, India was supposed to pick up some of the slack, but due to a combination of bans on Chinese vendors and a delayed spectrum auction, the spending virtually stopped in 2010. In fact, our analysis of capital expenditures by the three Chinese service providers in the first half of 2010 indicates that they have spent only 12% of their planned 3G budgets! The postponements in GSM upgrades and modernization will need to be addressed soon, and we are likely to see some interesting pick-up in both 3G in China and 2G in India in the second half of 2010," expects Stéphane Téral, principal analyst for mobile and FMC infrastructure at Infonetics Research.
Article published on 27th August 2010
Vietnamese 3G Market Has to Move Diligently to Succeed
With seven operators, the Vietnamese mobile market is one of the top five most competitive markets in this region. Vietnam's mobile connections grew 58% in 2009 and penetration reached 127%. However, recent operator comments suggests that 50% of these connections are inactive and as much 70% of the connections added in 2009 were multi-SIM users.
On the broadband front, the Vietnamese market has seen growth of over 60% in the past 4 years. A subscriber base of 2.1 million in 2008 gave the nation a household broadband penetration rate of 11.9&. The subscriber base is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.22% from 2004 to 2014 and is forecasted to reach 4.9 million by the end of 2014. While, the household broadband penetration is projected to reach 24.9% by the same period. Consumer broadband revenues are expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.11% from 193 million in 2008 to 449 million in 2014.
Backing all these potential growth and positioning the nation as a forerunner amongst its regional counterparts is the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC). The recent guidlines placed by the regulator clearly indicates the progress that the nation's telecommunications sector is posed to evolve into.
Of these guidelines, is the rise in foreign investor equity limit from 24.5%to 49%, permitting private telecoms infrastructure and lifting the foreign ownership cap. This move has sent clear signs to the international telecommunications community that the Vietnamese domestic market is eager to raise on par with its international counterparts.
Nitin Bhat, Partner at Frost & Sullivan, commented, "Prepaid still dominates Vietnam's market with 94.5% mobile connections. High multi-SIM usage and SIM churn has been encouraged by SIM usage bundling with users arbitrating promotional rates and service bundling. Data revenues do not appear to have gained the traction they have in other markets, possibly due to widespread voice credit bundling. The low penetration rate offer the opportunity for growth in internet access over affordable mobile devices and for wireless as it increasingly becomes the preferred mode of broadband access. Growth in this area would significantly increase data's contribution and importance to market revenues."
Nitin further added that Vietnamese operators will have to accelerate 3G traffic appropriately and should rely on Wi-Fi where possible to keep network costs under control.
Article published on 27th August 2010
On the broadband front, the Vietnamese market has seen growth of over 60% in the past 4 years. A subscriber base of 2.1 million in 2008 gave the nation a household broadband penetration rate of 11.9&. The subscriber base is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.22% from 2004 to 2014 and is forecasted to reach 4.9 million by the end of 2014. While, the household broadband penetration is projected to reach 24.9% by the same period. Consumer broadband revenues are expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.11% from 193 million in 2008 to 449 million in 2014.
Backing all these potential growth and positioning the nation as a forerunner amongst its regional counterparts is the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC). The recent guidlines placed by the regulator clearly indicates the progress that the nation's telecommunications sector is posed to evolve into.
Of these guidelines, is the rise in foreign investor equity limit from 24.5%to 49%, permitting private telecoms infrastructure and lifting the foreign ownership cap. This move has sent clear signs to the international telecommunications community that the Vietnamese domestic market is eager to raise on par with its international counterparts.
Nitin Bhat, Partner at Frost & Sullivan, commented, "Prepaid still dominates Vietnam's market with 94.5% mobile connections. High multi-SIM usage and SIM churn has been encouraged by SIM usage bundling with users arbitrating promotional rates and service bundling. Data revenues do not appear to have gained the traction they have in other markets, possibly due to widespread voice credit bundling. The low penetration rate offer the opportunity for growth in internet access over affordable mobile devices and for wireless as it increasingly becomes the preferred mode of broadband access. Growth in this area would significantly increase data's contribution and importance to market revenues."
Nitin further added that Vietnamese operators will have to accelerate 3G traffic appropriately and should rely on Wi-Fi where possible to keep network costs under control.
Article published on 27th August 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Senior RF Designer in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Radio Semiconductors Corporation actually has a vacancy for a Senior RF Designer at the RSC Design Centre , located at Nijmegen , the Netherlands.
RSC is a small, dynamic company providing specialized RF Front End Solution for cellular and wireless applications.
In your role as RF Designer you will get the responsibility of translating ideas and challenging RF specifications into product solutions. As a senior RF Designer you will be responsible for providing technical guidance to junior engineers.
The successful candidate has a proven competence and track record of analogue experience in characterization/modelling, simulation tooling and layout work.
If you qualified and keen to join a forward moving company within an exciting technology area, then send your C.V. with a cover letter stating why you are best qualified for this job to erik.maresch@cubicc.nl
For a comprehensive job description please visit www.radiosemi.nl
RSC is a small, dynamic company providing specialized RF Front End Solution for cellular and wireless applications.
In your role as RF Designer you will get the responsibility of translating ideas and challenging RF specifications into product solutions. As a senior RF Designer you will be responsible for providing technical guidance to junior engineers.
The successful candidate has a proven competence and track record of analogue experience in characterization/modelling, simulation tooling and layout work.
If you qualified and keen to join a forward moving company within an exciting technology area, then send your C.V. with a cover letter stating why you are best qualified for this job to erik.maresch@cubicc.nl
For a comprehensive job description please visit www.radiosemi.nl
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Urgent Requirements: Ericsson Experts required in Asia region
Hi,
We are looking for Ericsson experts with the following skills for some urgent openings in Asia region.
1. Position: PS Core Engineer
Skills Required: Should have strong experience on Ericsson SGSN, GGSN.
2. Position: Ercisson Core Network Planning Engineer
3. Position: Ericsson IN Planning Engineer
4. Position: Ericsson IN Charging System.
Kindly share cv's/ references at an urgent basis at: niti.linkedin@gmail.com
Regards
Niti
We are looking for Ericsson experts with the following skills for some urgent openings in Asia region.
1. Position: PS Core Engineer
Skills Required: Should have strong experience on Ericsson SGSN, GGSN.
2. Position: Ercisson Core Network Planning Engineer
3. Position: Ericsson IN Planning Engineer
4. Position: Ericsson IN Charging System.
Kindly share cv's/ references at an urgent basis at: niti.linkedin@gmail.com
Regards
Niti
Opening for NOC Engineer/Technician in Eastern Europe
Currently we have opening for NOC Engineer/Technician in Eastern Europe
Duration: 4 months
Location: Eastern Europe
Work Description:
The NOC Engineer/Technician will work in the Customer NOC performing following tasks:
• Working in 24x7 shift plan
• Alarm Monitoring, Fault Localization/Correction/Verification
• Basic Troubleshooting
• Supports Major service outage investigations and follow up
• Opening and following TT (Maximo Trouble Ticketing system)
• Updates or Ensures TT e.g. diary entries
• Escalates and follows up according to procedure
• Assists with Investigation into TT & WO performance matters
• Work Order Control (possible execution too) outside normal working hours
The candidate must have:
1. Competence on BSC3i and Flexi BTS / 3G RNC and Flexi Node B
3. Access Network understanding (MW NEC / NSN)
3. NetAct end user capabilities
Interested candidates please send in your updated resume at richa.kainthola@netc-intl.com or else please provide me some references for the same.
Regards,
Richa Kainthola
Duration: 4 months
Location: Eastern Europe
Work Description:
The NOC Engineer/Technician will work in the Customer NOC performing following tasks:
• Working in 24x7 shift plan
• Alarm Monitoring, Fault Localization/Correction/Verification
• Basic Troubleshooting
• Supports Major service outage investigations and follow up
• Opening and following TT (Maximo Trouble Ticketing system)
• Updates or Ensures TT e.g. diary entries
• Escalates and follows up according to procedure
• Assists with Investigation into TT & WO performance matters
• Work Order Control (possible execution too) outside normal working hours
The candidate must have:
1. Competence on BSC3i and Flexi BTS / 3G RNC and Flexi Node B
3. Access Network understanding (MW NEC / NSN)
3. NetAct end user capabilities
Interested candidates please send in your updated resume at richa.kainthola@netc-intl.com or else please provide me some references for the same.
Regards,
Richa Kainthola
FIBER OPTIC ENGINEER – CAT 6 for IRAQ,Cat 6 Cabler and Network Engineer for IRAQ needed for US Military contractor
1.Fiber Optic Engineer – CAT 6 -IRAQ
CAT 6 (fibre optic cable) and Fibre Engineer for a project in Dubai , work location also includes IRAQ
salary - $3000/ to $4000/ per month
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2.Cat 6 Cabler and Network Engineer -IRAQ
salary - $3000/ to$ 4000 per month
'
please forward biodata and certificates to biodata@usgkwt.com
CAT 6 (fibre optic cable) and Fibre Engineer for a project in Dubai , work location also includes IRAQ
salary - $3000/ to $4000/ per month
'
2.Cat 6 Cabler and Network Engineer -IRAQ
salary - $3000/ to$ 4000 per month
'
please forward biodata and certificates to biodata@usgkwt.com
VACANCY: Huawei Utran Engineers For Middle East
1. Fault Management support.
TT management and audit.Prioritization fault level and dispatch TT to difference principal.Tier 3 (Critical/major/minor)fault diagnosis.Management and control of fault progression and escalation of technical support.
2. Configuration Management support.
Technology case collection.Coordinate all chanages to the system.Configuration and modify database,detail and coordinate network change.Responsible for actual configuration and provisioning activities within the network.New software and technology introduction and impact analysis workshop method.
3.Technical Support.
Provide third line support.Resolve issues escalated from First line and second line .Diagnostics.Provide consulting service.Provide guidance and support for software delivery and upgrades.
Escalate the trouble ticket to Tier 3 and Tier 3 support when they cannot solve it, if tier 3 cannot solve it then escalate to HQ,monitor it until solved.Provide technical reports to identify cause of problems, and give preventive guidance to avoid same issue.
4. Performance and Capacity monitoring support.
Optimize working flowchart. Performance monitoring collects, analysis, and reports indicating element and
network performance.Periodical evaluation of the network subscriber growth and assessment of these trends and
availability of network capacity.
5. Communication with customers
Answer the request from the Customer office.Organize meeting with Huawei and customers
by weekly, follow up and update the issue mentioned in the meeting.Organize workshop with client and customers by monthly.
Professional Work Experience:
1.Bachelors or masters in telecommunication.
2.At least 4 years related work experience in telecom network operation and maintenance
3.At least 3 year UMTS engineering experience, more than 1 year Huaweiwork equipment maintenance experience preferred.
4.Familiar with OSS(Huawei M2000)
5.Excellent communication skill
Please email your cv's to snair@firstpointgroup.com
TT management and audit.Prioritization fault level and dispatch TT to difference principal.Tier 3 (Critical/major/minor)fault diagnosis.Management and control of fault progression and escalation of technical support.
2. Configuration Management support.
Technology case collection.Coordinate all chanages to the system.Configuration and modify database,detail and coordinate network change.Responsible for actual configuration and provisioning activities within the network.New software and technology introduction and impact analysis workshop method.
3.Technical Support.
Provide third line support.Resolve issues escalated from First line and second line .Diagnostics.Provide consulting service.Provide guidance and support for software delivery and upgrades.
Escalate the trouble ticket to Tier 3 and Tier 3 support when they cannot solve it, if tier 3 cannot solve it then escalate to HQ,monitor it until solved.Provide technical reports to identify cause of problems, and give preventive guidance to avoid same issue.
4. Performance and Capacity monitoring support.
Optimize working flowchart. Performance monitoring collects, analysis, and reports indicating element and
network performance.Periodical evaluation of the network subscriber growth and assessment of these trends and
availability of network capacity.
5. Communication with customers
Answer the request from the Customer office.Organize meeting with Huawei and customers
by weekly, follow up and update the issue mentioned in the meeting.Organize workshop with client and customers by monthly.
Professional Work Experience:
1.Bachelors or masters in telecommunication.
2.At least 4 years related work experience in telecom network operation and maintenance
3.At least 3 year UMTS engineering experience, more than 1 year Huaweiwork equipment maintenance experience preferred.
4.Familiar with OSS(Huawei M2000)
5.Excellent communication skill
Please email your cv's to snair@firstpointgroup.com
Transmission Project Managers
Hi,
I am currently looking for Transmission Project Managers with good Ericsson experience.
Must have Transmission experience and also Project Management.
Please if interested send your updated CV and any friends that may be interested send their updated CV too.
Kind Regards
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Alex Sparks
Sales Support
Tangent International
Direct Line +441277 635 854
Fax +441277 633 133
Alex.Sparks@tanint.com
Skype ID tangent-alex.sparks
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I am currently looking for Transmission Project Managers with good Ericsson experience.
Must have Transmission experience and also Project Management.
Please if interested send your updated CV and any friends that may be interested send their updated CV too.
Kind Regards
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Alex Sparks
Sales Support
Tangent International
Direct Line +441277 635 854
Fax +441277 633 133
Alex.Sparks@tanint.com
Skype ID tangent-alex.sparks
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Connect44 Latest jobs
Technical Project Manager - Ref.216600
Start date: 30/08/2010
Duration: 4 months
Location: Kampala, Uganda
The candidate needs to have experience with BSS (Business Support System) and BSCS (billing, rating, customer care domain), BSCS integration and validation. The candidate will have to write a monthly progress report that has to include the following items:
- planning updated
- workload with resource allocation
- progress status (including test progress, defects status, and resolution plan)
- minutes of meeting (internal and external)
- risk follow up and management
NOTE: The candidate will have to work on Saturdays. Estimated vacation for the 4 months period will be 2 weeks. Vacation will have to be confirmed before approval of candidate.
Contact:
Elisabeth Riccabona
alu@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 97
3rd Line RAN Support Engineer
Duration: 3 months (extendable)
3rd Line RAN Support Engineer
Duration: 3 months (extendable)
Scope of work includes:
3rd line technical 3G RAN support for a multi-operator network supporting NSN RNC196, 450, 2600, and associated WBTS.
Technical support for Ethernet migration with respect to Dual Iub functionality, IP Iub, Iu-PS & Iu-CS over IP.
A good working knowledge of RU10 features and latest Change Deliveries.
Going forward RU20 experience will be beneficial.
Knowledge of Reporting Suite & Remedy tools will be an advantage.
3rd line callout duties to be performed as required.
Nokia experience essential
Contact:
Michael Dakin
michael.dakin@connect44.com
+44 208 946 0430
Smart Site Design Expert - Ref. 215200
Location: Belgium
Duration 3 months+ extendable
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To create high level and/or low level innovative & evolutive radio site design and customer radio site network configuration solutions. To study, specify, produce and document radio site design configuration within guidelines for technical staff of service delivery organization leading to customer radio site functioning as per customer requirements.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCES
- Radio Site Network Design and solutions
In depth understanding of radio site networks and the ability to create detailed radio site designs (high level and low level designs) and solutions for customers.
- Radio Site Network business knowledge
In depth understanding of radio site networks, site architecture as well as safety and security obligation, third party suppliers and local regulatory constraints.
- Tools and Processes
Understands and works according to processes used within Client. Understands and uses the tools provided by Client within the given field of work.
- Computer skills
Good computer skills and knowledge of site design tools.
At least 10 years experience in Site Building
Contact:
Isabell Grossman
isabell.grossmann@connect44.com
+41 41 375 8851
ZTE BSS Operation Engineer - Ref. 216100
Algeria
Required: ASAP 3 months+
- Focusing on the customer network for the purpose of discovering and documenting problems that may arise in the engineering and implementation various vendor’s products.
- Guiding the operation ZTE BSS team Back office and regional teams for the BSS operation and maintenance tasks on daily basis including technical support in Mobile Communications field and management skills.
- Achieve & maintain the Radio Network Performance as per the contracted KPIs (Accessibility, Retainaibility, and Mobility & Service Integrity) by full cooperation with Optimization Radio&Core department.
- Monitor & analyze the GSM/GPRS/EDGE Radio Network Statistics on daily basis and prepare the related technical reports in both CS and PS to the related sides in order to care about the existing faults in the network and apply the mentioned recommendations.
- Troubleshooting the faulty BSC and BTS using appropriate tool either OSS or methodology locally and on site when necessary.
Contact:
Isabell Grossman
isabell.grossmann@connect44.com
+41 41 375 8851
Flexi NodeB / BTS Engineer
Start date: asap
Duration: 6 months+
Location: Lisbon - Portugal
Connect44 is currently looking for a Flexi NodeB / BTS Engineers to be based in Lisbon – Portugal.
Skills required: Knowledge of mobile telecommunication or IT networks. Knowledge on Radio and Access for 2G and 3G preferred (Nokia equipments). Experience with Network Management Tools (like NetAct and Radio Commander) preferred. Experience with providing remote services (preferable). Language skills: French and English (mandatory)
Engineer will be responsible for remote configuration, integration and verification of Base Stations (GSM and UMTS).
Contact:
Jennifer von Rohr
jennifer.vonrohr@connect44.com.
+41 41 375 8892
Rel4 Care Support Engineer
Start date: 01.10.2010
Duration: 6 months+
Location: Dubai
Connect44 is currently looking for a Care Support Engineer for Rel4 to be based in Dubai.
Skills required: Strong Nokia R4 experience.
Main tasks: Care Support for R4 System. Case Handling. Emergency Support 24/7. Trouble Resolution. Knowledgeable with Care Tool and Process.
Contact:
Jennifer von Rohr
jennifer.vonrohr@connect44.com.
+41 41 375 8892
RU20 Engineer
Start date: asap
Duration: 2 months
Location: Dubai
Connect44 is currently looking for a RU20 Engineer
Main tasks: Implementation and commissioning of the Western Region RNC. RNC2600 RU20. Sub contractor training for Flexi WCDMA Dual Cell implementation. RIC training for remote integration of the new WCDMA Dual Cell BTS. On site TI technical support during the swap together with RU20 feature testing and verification post swap.
Contact:
Jennifer von Rohr
jennifer.vonrohr@connect44.com.
+41 41 375 8892
Network OptimizationTechnical Specialist (Centre)
Location Bangkok Thailand
Duration – 6 months
Job description
In depth Technical advice and support problem solving to Field Optimization team
• Develop and Perform Test Analysis for 2G/3G GSM KPI Improvement.
• Study new features and make trial to find new opportunities to improve KPI in conjunction/cooperation with Radio Network Engineering
• High level Traffic Analysis and Capacity Management for 3G GSM Radio/Core Architecture Network such as Capacity trending, forecasting and trigger of upgrades
• Reviewing existing process on a broad basis and making recommendations for change / transformation and ensuring that The operator employs industry best practice.
• Present an analysis of current problem, Organization, resources and process with recommendation for improvement to management.
• Structured and methodical in their approach to problem solving.
• Summarize and present the activity report to project the current problems situation in period to the relevant parties.
• Transfer knowledge and knowhow to Engineering specialist in team to adopt of industry best practice
Candidate requirements
Minimum Bachelor Degree in Telecommunication Engineering, Computer
Science or Related Fields
• At least 8 years experience in 2G/3G Mobile Network.
• Experience working with Alcatel GSM BSS, and Huawei GSM BSS & UMTS
UTRAN.
• Strong understanding of GSM / UMTS networks Optimization (tools / processes /features and parameters) with in the region of 3-6 years experience across BSS,UTRAN and Core Network performance Optimization
• Process and procedural knowledge of Network Optimization
• Ability to operate sensitively with Cultural diversity
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English or Thai
• Good PC skill with basic PC software package and technical special tools
Contact
Sivalingam Muttiah
sivalingam.muttiah@connect44.com
+603 7960 3275
GSM Optimization Engineer - RPM 21688
Start date: 13th of September 2010
End date: 7th of January 2011
Location: Barnaul, Russia
Job Description
Our client is currently looking for a Telecommunications Engineer with experience in GSM optimization and QoS monitoring. Candidates will be responsible for the following tasks:in charge of cluster optimization activities, preparing parameter & neighbouring plans and cluster DT routes, coordinating the DT teams, analyzing processed DT logs provided by BO Post Processing, QoS analysis through indicator analysis (NPO / A-trace analysis), deciding on optimization actions (frequency plans, antenna re-engineering, parameter tuning), interface with OMC team for any parameter changes.
Any knowledge of the Russian language would be a plus.
Contact:
Elisabeth Riccabona
alu@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 97
Technical Support Engineer
Start date: ASAP.
Duration: 3 months + possible prolongation.
Location: Iles de France.
Job description:
• Participate in the integration and validation phases of Client's Wireless solutions (Wimax, Femtocell, 3G RAN).
Support Wimax BTS integration into a production network:
• Guide the customer according to procedure agreed, answer questions
• Interface with Client's support to open tickets and resolve issues
Participate in the integration & validation of a Femtocell Pilot:
• Iu & IP integration into customer network
• Support on test platform
• Participate in product testing
• Validation of access points deployment procedures (including provisioning) and other roll-out procedures.
• Interface with customer technical teams (participate in meetings …etc)
• Interface with Client's R&D teams
Participate in the integration & validation of a RAN Sharing Lab&Pilot:
• Multi-operators Iu integration
• Support on test and pilot platforms
• Participate in product testing
• Interface with customer technical teams (participate in meetings …etc)
• Interface with Client's R&D teams
Candidate requirements:
• 3G UTRAN strong knowledge (System)
• Experience in Integration/Validation
• End-to-end understanding of a 3G network.
• IP Networks knowledge
• Iu protocols knowledge (ATM and IP SIGTRAN)
• French language skill is a must.
• Huawei experience is a benefit.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
RAN Support Engineer
Start date: ASAP.
Duration: 3 months + possible prolongation.
Location: Paris, Iles de France.
Job description:
• RNC commissioning/integration on site and with OMC(in customer premise)
• NodeB Swap integration mainly with OMC in customer premise
• Technical issue handle
• Reports on the conduct of the activities
Candidate requirements:
• Relevant knowledge and experience is required.
• French language skill is a must.
• Huawei experience is a benefit.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Wireless Technical Support Engineer
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Dusseldorf/Berlin/Munich/Dresden, Germany
Job description:
• Engineering Technical Service: supervise and technical service during the engineering process including site survey, equipments hardware installation and software commissioning, data configuration and integration, swap activities, acceptance test, trouble shooting and related engineering documentation.
• Test Technical Service: technical service during the product validation test including test environment set up, test object list and test case description preparation and communication, test execution and communication, testing report preparation etc.
• Maintenance Technical Serice: technical service during maintenance phase including FLM/SLM, trouble shooting, problem report preparation, on site investigation and patch/software upgrade while necessary.
• Cooperation and good communication with Huawei team members and customer.
Candidate requirements:
• Good knowledge in wireless technology, well understanding of the UMTS/GSM network architecture, interfaces and related potocols.
• Good experience in Radio Access Network, not less than 3 years technical support experience in WCDMA-RAN / GSM-BSS.
• Skill in RNC/BSC/BTS/NodeB hardware system, software commissioning, data configuration and integration, basic trouble shooting.
• Candidates with big project experience or radio network swap experience would be preferred.
• Good communication skill, fluent spoken / written English and German, good at team work, open mind.
• Available to travel all areas over Germany as project needed, mainly based in Dusseldorf/Berlin/Munich/Dresden.
• Huawei experience is a benefit.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Director of telecom network solution management
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Munich/Paris
Job description:
• Responsible for E2E solution planning and management for European operators, leading and managing Client's European solution management team. The solutions will include:
• Mobile broadband solution (end to end)
• Home network solution (or digital home & IPTV solution)
• Fixed and Mobile convergent solution
• Define/Manage corporate-level network and application solution’s roadmap and charter, report to management team, then require the R&D team to develop solution for our customer, manage the whole process
• Lead the team to communicate with operators in Europe to deeply understand and their strategy and requirements in the telecom network and application domain, provide in-depth thinking and contributions for market and competition analysis, lead the direction of the specific solutions
• Analyze short/medium/long-term customer needs and telecom industry trends to develop strategic planning and business planning accordingly
Candidate requirements:
• Relevant known vendor (E///, ALU, NSN, Thomson, Sagem) or known operator (FT, VDF, DT, TEF, TI etc.) experience is required.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Senior Mobile Broadband Solution Planning Expert/Manager
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Munich/Paris
Job description:
• Responsible for E2E Mobile broad solution planning and management including products:
• E2E Mobile broadband solution architecture and services
• eNB/BTS/RNC/SGSN/GGSN/S-GW/P-GW
• E2E services, QoE, QoS, performance optimization
• Communicate with customers in Europe to deeply understand and their strategy and requirements in the mobile broadband solution network and application domain, provide in-depth thinking and contributions for market and competition analysis, lead the direction of the specific solutions
• Define/Manage corporate-level mobile broadband solution roadmap and charter, report to management team, push the solution into R&D, manage the whole process
• Analyze short/medium/long-term customer needs and telecom industry trends to develop strategic planning and business planning accordingly
Candidate requirements:
• Relevant known vendor (E///, ALU, NSN, Thomson, Sagem) or known operator (FT, VDF, DT, TEF, TI etc.) experience is required.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Senior Digital Home Solution Planning Expert/Manager
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Munich/Paris
Job description:
• Responsible for E2E Digital home solution planning and management including products:
• E2E digital home solution architecture
• Digital home services including IPTV, triple play, HD for home customer
• Digital home service platform for operator
• Digital home devices at home like home gateway, service gateway, set-to-top boxes
• Communicate with customers in Europe to deeply understand and their strategy and requirements in the digital home solution network and application domain, provide in-depth thinking and contributions for market and competition analysis, lead the direction of the specific solutions
• Define/Manage corporate-level digital home solution roadmap and charter, report to management team, push the solution into R&D, manage the whole process
• Analyze short/medium/long-term customer needs and telecom industry trends to develop strategic planning and business planning accordingly
Candidate requirements:
• Relevant known vendor (E///, ALU, NSN, Thomson, Sagem) or known operator (FT, VDF, DT, TEF, TI etc.) experience is required.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Programme Manager
Start date: ASAP.
Duration: 6 months + possible prolongation (project duration is 5 years).
Location: Hungary.
Candidate requirements:
• Hungarian language skill is a MUST.
• Programme management experience is a MUST.
• ZTE experience and extensive experience in telecommunication industry is an advantage.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Site Design Engineer
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Germany
Job description:
• Support Project Manager in establishing CW processes and procedures and actively support agreements for Partners
• Define and agree with Partner, the CW specifications and standard documentation (process and planning guidelines)
• Maintain an overview of the Partner’s performance and manage the Partner accordingly to ensure continued output, quality and safety. Define targets for permitting, design and construction in terms of timelines, dead lines and budget/ costs set-out by customer
• Manage the CW input from the Partners
• Attend BTB in a spot checking or advisory role
• Monitor the production of the planning drawings and review as necessary;
• Ensure that the Partner CW designs are reviewed by Client, coordinate different expert evaluation and ensure keeping timelines overall;
• Monitor the build permit applications and other permits by the Partner;
• Check and monitor cost variations to the model site prices or agreed BoQ (whatever is applicable);
• Ensure the availability of all current standards, specifications and general requirements of Huawei and Vodafone where applicable;
• Suggest solutions to technical queries to progress the CW works
• Suggest solutions to sites with difficult CW design problems
• Review the site realization schedule and overview the Partners resource allocations
• Attend site acceptance surveys as required
• Ensure the correct data is entered in the Project databases and Customer database,
where applicable ensure correct format, structure and transfer of documentation
• Review the Partner invoices and monitor the performance of the Partners against their contractual responsibilities
Candidate requirements:
• Good communication skill, fluent spoken / written English and German, good at team work, open mind.
• Familiar with CW design principles for a radio cell site in Germany, deep know-how on planning guidelines of German mobile operators
• Expertise on one or more build trades as of steel construction, electrical system, lightning protection system, antenna system, building construction, civil engineering, site safety assurance (alternatively gained experience on several of this field through proofed job track records)
• Systematic approach and analytical thinking, very good communication skills
Other candidate requirements:
• Site Building Permit, other necessary permits and approvals for a radio site installation
• Scope of Work for planning, design and build a radio site
• Technical Standards in Germany on electrical, grounding, and feeder installation work
• Radio site safety area (controlled access area)
• BNetzA approval requirements
• Basic Principles on static calculation requirements
• Landlord maintenance handling and general habits in lease contracts
• Cost estimations for different site build trades
• Coordination requirements for multi operator sites (shared sites)
• Safety requirements for installation work (EHS rules and principles)
• Common and specific certificates and documentation necessary to produce during CW installation
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Managed Services Sales Expert
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 6 - 12 months
Location - Ukraine
Candidate requirements:
• Possess good interpersonal communications and negotiation skills.
• At least 2 years of experience in sales management telecom vendor’s products;
• At least 4 years practical experience in Telecommunications industry, familiar with telecom O&M and its outsourcing evolution history and trend, strong customer-oriented and business minded, understanding operator's challenges, long term business and market requirements.
• Expertise in two or more of the following areas: NOC, Field maintenance, network performance management, eTom/ITIL, OSS/IT, outsourcing, resource transfer management (people and asset).
• Good presentation and documentation skills.
• Good analytical and systematic thinking skills and communication capability;
• Mature and positive attitudes; strong sense of quality; able to work well in a fast-paced, multi-culture dynamic environment.
• Excellent written, oral and listening skills in English
• Energetic and studious
• Higher Technical or Economical Education
• Ericsson experience is a plus
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
UTRAN Engineer
5 month +
USA
Job Description: UTRAN Engineer should be capable of troubleshooting network performance issues in live networks. The candidates should have a minimum of 3 years of UMTS experience. The candidate must be familiar with Network Performance Improvement, including tracing and analysis of single call as well as traffic analysis and improvement using KPIs. In-depth understanding of all RAN interfaces and protocols, and capability to troubleshoot capacity and performance issues is required. Must have an in-depth understanding of ATM transport network and capability to modify configurations according to established templates. Need to be proficient with trace tools, CPP platform, COLI, Moshell/ AMOS, and scripting. Experience with OSS PM and Business Objects are a plus. Candidates should be flexible to travel.
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
RF Engineer UMTS Tuning
6 months +
USA
Job Description: Able to make recommendations in parameter changes, feature activations on drive test data to improve the system performance. Minimum of 6 years of experience in tuning projects from which 3 years should be in UMTS tuning. Good understanding of optimization tools such as TEMS, Actix, Agilent Experience in tuning a loaded network, and understand the difference between artificial and real traffic loading Good understanding of Layer 3 messaging Able to collect and analyze drive data and performance statistics Knowledge on how IRAT procedures can affects the overall performance Ericsson experience preferred. Past leadership experience in atleast 2 projects. Note candidate will need one week training at the ARP vendor expense. Candidate should be flexible to travel.
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
RF Engineer LTE
6 months +
USA
Job Description: RF engineers needed for LTE design projects in Plano Skill set - Candidates must have tuning experience in UMTS/HDSPA design and/or LTE design. - Minimum 10 years of RF tuning experience, 5+ in UMTS/LTE. - Significant Actix and/or TEMS tool experience required - Good communication skills in English - Good troubleshooting skills (assessability, retainability, throughput, etc) - Candidate must have understanding of LTE fundamentals- Layer 3 analysis, KPI’s, etc. - Understand plumbing diagrams (diplexers, duplexers) - Candidate must be willing to travel within the US, lead a team, and work without supervision if necessary. - Able to identify and interpret customer requirements and develop plans to address them.
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
LTE RF Planning Enginner
5 months +
USA
The RF Planning Engineer will be required to independently perform RF network design and optimization activities during network rollout phase in cooperation with other parties such as site acquisition, implementation, backhaul design, and network integration.
Required Competencies and Skills:
• Perform link budget analysis, understand and utilize design criteria including coverage and traffic analysis
• Ensure data integrity of various morphology/topography databases and drive testing data for model tuning and calibration
• Perform nominal and detailed RF design, including site selection and site acquisition support
• Perform technical site survey
• Analyze and recommend equipment and antenna co-location requirements for different technologies
• Perform site build verification and acceptance
• Create site data-fills to support site integration
• Undertake network optimization and performance improvement tasks to achieve predefined key performance indicators (KPI)
Education & Experience or Other Requirements:
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, or Computer Science
• Two years work experience in RF network design and optimization
• LTE technology understanding and know-how
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
3G RNC radio Access Integrator
5 Months +
USA
3G RNC radio Access Integrator MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide Engineering support for RNC Integration Project with high level of the ex_nokia RNC and NodeB Skill set.
Key tasks of the job:
1. Remote Integration, System verification & acceptance and troubleshooting for 3G ex-Nokia RNC . Develop and maintain 3G RNC and NodeB project competence, process, and documents for network deployment.
2. Provide Project technical support for troubleshoot and resolve issues, escalations from project and overall responsible for the 3G RNC Integration and acceptance.
3. Participate in Issue investigation FOA, SW/ CD deployment, Software and new feature verification, MOP generation as well as test case creation- execution.
4. Provide support to customers for operations and maintenance of RAN Network elements including competence transfer to customers operations teams for local and remote operations and maintenance tasks.
5. Serve as local customer interface and coordinate communication for services and issues between customer market teams and NSN service lines.
6. Supports operations services such as traffic rehomes, network retunes, feature activations, network modification and Performance analysis.
7. Support Customer Lab for SW/ HW New Feature verification and validation.
8. Ensure quality customer satisfaction survey targets and carry end to end RAN support function
9. Work as Project Support Engineer for atomization of the process and improve in efficiency & execution of the taskRequired
Competencies and Skills:
• 4+ years experience in Project , technical support and Equipment implementation for 3G radio network controller elements ( RNC, NodeB ) in wireless communications networks, including understanding of Circuit Switch and Packet Switch Core network elements. Preference will be given to candidates that already have experience on NSN radio equipment.
• Has excellent IP, Unix experience and skills set.
• Understanding of network interface protocols, protocol analyzers and network specifications. Can independently use Network analyzer and other tools to troubleshoot technical problem
• Understanding of wireless network implementation and operations services.
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
Start date: 30/08/2010
Duration: 4 months
Location: Kampala, Uganda
The candidate needs to have experience with BSS (Business Support System) and BSCS (billing, rating, customer care domain), BSCS integration and validation. The candidate will have to write a monthly progress report that has to include the following items:
- planning updated
- workload with resource allocation
- progress status (including test progress, defects status, and resolution plan)
- minutes of meeting (internal and external)
- risk follow up and management
NOTE: The candidate will have to work on Saturdays. Estimated vacation for the 4 months period will be 2 weeks. Vacation will have to be confirmed before approval of candidate.
Contact:
Elisabeth Riccabona
alu@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 97
3rd Line RAN Support Engineer
Duration: 3 months (extendable)
3rd Line RAN Support Engineer
Duration: 3 months (extendable)
Scope of work includes:
3rd line technical 3G RAN support for a multi-operator network supporting NSN RNC196, 450, 2600, and associated WBTS.
Technical support for Ethernet migration with respect to Dual Iub functionality, IP Iub, Iu-PS & Iu-CS over IP.
A good working knowledge of RU10 features and latest Change Deliveries.
Going forward RU20 experience will be beneficial.
Knowledge of Reporting Suite & Remedy tools will be an advantage.
3rd line callout duties to be performed as required.
Nokia experience essential
Contact:
Michael Dakin
michael.dakin@connect44.com
+44 208 946 0430
Smart Site Design Expert - Ref. 215200
Location: Belgium
Duration 3 months+ extendable
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To create high level and/or low level innovative & evolutive radio site design and customer radio site network configuration solutions. To study, specify, produce and document radio site design configuration within guidelines for technical staff of service delivery organization leading to customer radio site functioning as per customer requirements.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCES
- Radio Site Network Design and solutions
In depth understanding of radio site networks and the ability to create detailed radio site designs (high level and low level designs) and solutions for customers.
- Radio Site Network business knowledge
In depth understanding of radio site networks, site architecture as well as safety and security obligation, third party suppliers and local regulatory constraints.
- Tools and Processes
Understands and works according to processes used within Client. Understands and uses the tools provided by Client within the given field of work.
- Computer skills
Good computer skills and knowledge of site design tools.
At least 10 years experience in Site Building
Contact:
Isabell Grossman
isabell.grossmann@connect44.com
+41 41 375 8851
ZTE BSS Operation Engineer - Ref. 216100
Algeria
Required: ASAP 3 months+
- Focusing on the customer network for the purpose of discovering and documenting problems that may arise in the engineering and implementation various vendor’s products.
- Guiding the operation ZTE BSS team Back office and regional teams for the BSS operation and maintenance tasks on daily basis including technical support in Mobile Communications field and management skills.
- Achieve & maintain the Radio Network Performance as per the contracted KPIs (Accessibility, Retainaibility, and Mobility & Service Integrity) by full cooperation with Optimization Radio&Core department.
- Monitor & analyze the GSM/GPRS/EDGE Radio Network Statistics on daily basis and prepare the related technical reports in both CS and PS to the related sides in order to care about the existing faults in the network and apply the mentioned recommendations.
- Troubleshooting the faulty BSC and BTS using appropriate tool either OSS or methodology locally and on site when necessary.
Contact:
Isabell Grossman
isabell.grossmann@connect44.com
+41 41 375 8851
Flexi NodeB / BTS Engineer
Start date: asap
Duration: 6 months+
Location: Lisbon - Portugal
Connect44 is currently looking for a Flexi NodeB / BTS Engineers to be based in Lisbon – Portugal.
Skills required: Knowledge of mobile telecommunication or IT networks. Knowledge on Radio and Access for 2G and 3G preferred (Nokia equipments). Experience with Network Management Tools (like NetAct and Radio Commander) preferred. Experience with providing remote services (preferable). Language skills: French and English (mandatory)
Engineer will be responsible for remote configuration, integration and verification of Base Stations (GSM and UMTS).
Contact:
Jennifer von Rohr
jennifer.vonrohr@connect44.com.
+41 41 375 8892
Rel4 Care Support Engineer
Start date: 01.10.2010
Duration: 6 months+
Location: Dubai
Connect44 is currently looking for a Care Support Engineer for Rel4 to be based in Dubai.
Skills required: Strong Nokia R4 experience.
Main tasks: Care Support for R4 System. Case Handling. Emergency Support 24/7. Trouble Resolution. Knowledgeable with Care Tool and Process.
Contact:
Jennifer von Rohr
jennifer.vonrohr@connect44.com.
+41 41 375 8892
RU20 Engineer
Start date: asap
Duration: 2 months
Location: Dubai
Connect44 is currently looking for a RU20 Engineer
Main tasks: Implementation and commissioning of the Western Region RNC. RNC2600 RU20. Sub contractor training for Flexi WCDMA Dual Cell implementation. RIC training for remote integration of the new WCDMA Dual Cell BTS. On site TI technical support during the swap together with RU20 feature testing and verification post swap.
Contact:
Jennifer von Rohr
jennifer.vonrohr@connect44.com.
+41 41 375 8892
Network OptimizationTechnical Specialist (Centre)
Location Bangkok Thailand
Duration – 6 months
Job description
In depth Technical advice and support problem solving to Field Optimization team
• Develop and Perform Test Analysis for 2G/3G GSM KPI Improvement.
• Study new features and make trial to find new opportunities to improve KPI in conjunction/cooperation with Radio Network Engineering
• High level Traffic Analysis and Capacity Management for 3G GSM Radio/Core Architecture Network such as Capacity trending, forecasting and trigger of upgrades
• Reviewing existing process on a broad basis and making recommendations for change / transformation and ensuring that The operator employs industry best practice.
• Present an analysis of current problem, Organization, resources and process with recommendation for improvement to management.
• Structured and methodical in their approach to problem solving.
• Summarize and present the activity report to project the current problems situation in period to the relevant parties.
• Transfer knowledge and knowhow to Engineering specialist in team to adopt of industry best practice
Candidate requirements
Minimum Bachelor Degree in Telecommunication Engineering, Computer
Science or Related Fields
• At least 8 years experience in 2G/3G Mobile Network.
• Experience working with Alcatel GSM BSS, and Huawei GSM BSS & UMTS
UTRAN.
• Strong understanding of GSM / UMTS networks Optimization (tools / processes /features and parameters) with in the region of 3-6 years experience across BSS,UTRAN and Core Network performance Optimization
• Process and procedural knowledge of Network Optimization
• Ability to operate sensitively with Cultural diversity
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English or Thai
• Good PC skill with basic PC software package and technical special tools
Contact
Sivalingam Muttiah
sivalingam.muttiah@connect44.com
+603 7960 3275
GSM Optimization Engineer - RPM 21688
Start date: 13th of September 2010
End date: 7th of January 2011
Location: Barnaul, Russia
Job Description
Our client is currently looking for a Telecommunications Engineer with experience in GSM optimization and QoS monitoring. Candidates will be responsible for the following tasks:in charge of cluster optimization activities, preparing parameter & neighbouring plans and cluster DT routes, coordinating the DT teams, analyzing processed DT logs provided by BO Post Processing, QoS analysis through indicator analysis (NPO / A-trace analysis), deciding on optimization actions (frequency plans, antenna re-engineering, parameter tuning), interface with OMC team for any parameter changes.
Any knowledge of the Russian language would be a plus.
Contact:
Elisabeth Riccabona
alu@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 97
Technical Support Engineer
Start date: ASAP.
Duration: 3 months + possible prolongation.
Location: Iles de France.
Job description:
• Participate in the integration and validation phases of Client's Wireless solutions (Wimax, Femtocell, 3G RAN).
Support Wimax BTS integration into a production network:
• Guide the customer according to procedure agreed, answer questions
• Interface with Client's support to open tickets and resolve issues
Participate in the integration & validation of a Femtocell Pilot:
• Iu & IP integration into customer network
• Support on test platform
• Participate in product testing
• Validation of access points deployment procedures (including provisioning) and other roll-out procedures.
• Interface with customer technical teams (participate in meetings …etc)
• Interface with Client's R&D teams
Participate in the integration & validation of a RAN Sharing Lab&Pilot:
• Multi-operators Iu integration
• Support on test and pilot platforms
• Participate in product testing
• Interface with customer technical teams (participate in meetings …etc)
• Interface with Client's R&D teams
Candidate requirements:
• 3G UTRAN strong knowledge (System)
• Experience in Integration/Validation
• End-to-end understanding of a 3G network.
• IP Networks knowledge
• Iu protocols knowledge (ATM and IP SIGTRAN)
• French language skill is a must.
• Huawei experience is a benefit.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
RAN Support Engineer
Start date: ASAP.
Duration: 3 months + possible prolongation.
Location: Paris, Iles de France.
Job description:
• RNC commissioning/integration on site and with OMC(in customer premise)
• NodeB Swap integration mainly with OMC in customer premise
• Technical issue handle
• Reports on the conduct of the activities
Candidate requirements:
• Relevant knowledge and experience is required.
• French language skill is a must.
• Huawei experience is a benefit.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Wireless Technical Support Engineer
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Dusseldorf/Berlin/Munich/Dresden, Germany
Job description:
• Engineering Technical Service: supervise and technical service during the engineering process including site survey, equipments hardware installation and software commissioning, data configuration and integration, swap activities, acceptance test, trouble shooting and related engineering documentation.
• Test Technical Service: technical service during the product validation test including test environment set up, test object list and test case description preparation and communication, test execution and communication, testing report preparation etc.
• Maintenance Technical Serice: technical service during maintenance phase including FLM/SLM, trouble shooting, problem report preparation, on site investigation and patch/software upgrade while necessary.
• Cooperation and good communication with Huawei team members and customer.
Candidate requirements:
• Good knowledge in wireless technology, well understanding of the UMTS/GSM network architecture, interfaces and related potocols.
• Good experience in Radio Access Network, not less than 3 years technical support experience in WCDMA-RAN / GSM-BSS.
• Skill in RNC/BSC/BTS/NodeB hardware system, software commissioning, data configuration and integration, basic trouble shooting.
• Candidates with big project experience or radio network swap experience would be preferred.
• Good communication skill, fluent spoken / written English and German, good at team work, open mind.
• Available to travel all areas over Germany as project needed, mainly based in Dusseldorf/Berlin/Munich/Dresden.
• Huawei experience is a benefit.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Director of telecom network solution management
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Munich/Paris
Job description:
• Responsible for E2E solution planning and management for European operators, leading and managing Client's European solution management team. The solutions will include:
• Mobile broadband solution (end to end)
• Home network solution (or digital home & IPTV solution)
• Fixed and Mobile convergent solution
• Define/Manage corporate-level network and application solution’s roadmap and charter, report to management team, then require the R&D team to develop solution for our customer, manage the whole process
• Lead the team to communicate with operators in Europe to deeply understand and their strategy and requirements in the telecom network and application domain, provide in-depth thinking and contributions for market and competition analysis, lead the direction of the specific solutions
• Analyze short/medium/long-term customer needs and telecom industry trends to develop strategic planning and business planning accordingly
Candidate requirements:
• Relevant known vendor (E///, ALU, NSN, Thomson, Sagem) or known operator (FT, VDF, DT, TEF, TI etc.) experience is required.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Senior Mobile Broadband Solution Planning Expert/Manager
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Munich/Paris
Job description:
• Responsible for E2E Mobile broad solution planning and management including products:
• E2E Mobile broadband solution architecture and services
• eNB/BTS/RNC/SGSN/GGSN/S-GW/P-GW
• E2E services, QoE, QoS, performance optimization
• Communicate with customers in Europe to deeply understand and their strategy and requirements in the mobile broadband solution network and application domain, provide in-depth thinking and contributions for market and competition analysis, lead the direction of the specific solutions
• Define/Manage corporate-level mobile broadband solution roadmap and charter, report to management team, push the solution into R&D, manage the whole process
• Analyze short/medium/long-term customer needs and telecom industry trends to develop strategic planning and business planning accordingly
Candidate requirements:
• Relevant known vendor (E///, ALU, NSN, Thomson, Sagem) or known operator (FT, VDF, DT, TEF, TI etc.) experience is required.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Senior Digital Home Solution Planning Expert/Manager
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Munich/Paris
Job description:
• Responsible for E2E Digital home solution planning and management including products:
• E2E digital home solution architecture
• Digital home services including IPTV, triple play, HD for home customer
• Digital home service platform for operator
• Digital home devices at home like home gateway, service gateway, set-to-top boxes
• Communicate with customers in Europe to deeply understand and their strategy and requirements in the digital home solution network and application domain, provide in-depth thinking and contributions for market and competition analysis, lead the direction of the specific solutions
• Define/Manage corporate-level digital home solution roadmap and charter, report to management team, push the solution into R&D, manage the whole process
• Analyze short/medium/long-term customer needs and telecom industry trends to develop strategic planning and business planning accordingly
Candidate requirements:
• Relevant known vendor (E///, ALU, NSN, Thomson, Sagem) or known operator (FT, VDF, DT, TEF, TI etc.) experience is required.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Programme Manager
Start date: ASAP.
Duration: 6 months + possible prolongation (project duration is 5 years).
Location: Hungary.
Candidate requirements:
• Hungarian language skill is a MUST.
• Programme management experience is a MUST.
• ZTE experience and extensive experience in telecommunication industry is an advantage.
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Site Design Engineer
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 3 months + possible prolongation
Location - Germany
Job description:
• Support Project Manager in establishing CW processes and procedures and actively support agreements for Partners
• Define and agree with Partner, the CW specifications and standard documentation (process and planning guidelines)
• Maintain an overview of the Partner’s performance and manage the Partner accordingly to ensure continued output, quality and safety. Define targets for permitting, design and construction in terms of timelines, dead lines and budget/ costs set-out by customer
• Manage the CW input from the Partners
• Attend BTB in a spot checking or advisory role
• Monitor the production of the planning drawings and review as necessary;
• Ensure that the Partner CW designs are reviewed by Client, coordinate different expert evaluation and ensure keeping timelines overall;
• Monitor the build permit applications and other permits by the Partner;
• Check and monitor cost variations to the model site prices or agreed BoQ (whatever is applicable);
• Ensure the availability of all current standards, specifications and general requirements of Huawei and Vodafone where applicable;
• Suggest solutions to technical queries to progress the CW works
• Suggest solutions to sites with difficult CW design problems
• Review the site realization schedule and overview the Partners resource allocations
• Attend site acceptance surveys as required
• Ensure the correct data is entered in the Project databases and Customer database,
where applicable ensure correct format, structure and transfer of documentation
• Review the Partner invoices and monitor the performance of the Partners against their contractual responsibilities
Candidate requirements:
• Good communication skill, fluent spoken / written English and German, good at team work, open mind.
• Familiar with CW design principles for a radio cell site in Germany, deep know-how on planning guidelines of German mobile operators
• Expertise on one or more build trades as of steel construction, electrical system, lightning protection system, antenna system, building construction, civil engineering, site safety assurance (alternatively gained experience on several of this field through proofed job track records)
• Systematic approach and analytical thinking, very good communication skills
Other candidate requirements:
• Site Building Permit, other necessary permits and approvals for a radio site installation
• Scope of Work for planning, design and build a radio site
• Technical Standards in Germany on electrical, grounding, and feeder installation work
• Radio site safety area (controlled access area)
• BNetzA approval requirements
• Basic Principles on static calculation requirements
• Landlord maintenance handling and general habits in lease contracts
• Cost estimations for different site build trades
• Coordination requirements for multi operator sites (shared sites)
• Safety requirements for installation work (EHS rules and principles)
• Common and specific certificates and documentation necessary to produce during CW installation
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
Managed Services Sales Expert
Start date - ASAP
Duration - 6 - 12 months
Location - Ukraine
Candidate requirements:
• Possess good interpersonal communications and negotiation skills.
• At least 2 years of experience in sales management telecom vendor’s products;
• At least 4 years practical experience in Telecommunications industry, familiar with telecom O&M and its outsourcing evolution history and trend, strong customer-oriented and business minded, understanding operator's challenges, long term business and market requirements.
• Expertise in two or more of the following areas: NOC, Field maintenance, network performance management, eTom/ITIL, OSS/IT, outsourcing, resource transfer management (people and asset).
• Good presentation and documentation skills.
• Good analytical and systematic thinking skills and communication capability;
• Mature and positive attitudes; strong sense of quality; able to work well in a fast-paced, multi-culture dynamic environment.
• Excellent written, oral and listening skills in English
• Energetic and studious
• Higher Technical or Economical Education
• Ericsson experience is a plus
Contact
Olga Korychenska
huawei@connect44.com
+41 41 375 88 52
UTRAN Engineer
5 month +
USA
Job Description: UTRAN Engineer should be capable of troubleshooting network performance issues in live networks. The candidates should have a minimum of 3 years of UMTS experience. The candidate must be familiar with Network Performance Improvement, including tracing and analysis of single call as well as traffic analysis and improvement using KPIs. In-depth understanding of all RAN interfaces and protocols, and capability to troubleshoot capacity and performance issues is required. Must have an in-depth understanding of ATM transport network and capability to modify configurations according to established templates. Need to be proficient with trace tools, CPP platform, COLI, Moshell/ AMOS, and scripting. Experience with OSS PM and Business Objects are a plus. Candidates should be flexible to travel.
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
RF Engineer UMTS Tuning
6 months +
USA
Job Description: Able to make recommendations in parameter changes, feature activations on drive test data to improve the system performance. Minimum of 6 years of experience in tuning projects from which 3 years should be in UMTS tuning. Good understanding of optimization tools such as TEMS, Actix, Agilent Experience in tuning a loaded network, and understand the difference between artificial and real traffic loading Good understanding of Layer 3 messaging Able to collect and analyze drive data and performance statistics Knowledge on how IRAT procedures can affects the overall performance Ericsson experience preferred. Past leadership experience in atleast 2 projects. Note candidate will need one week training at the ARP vendor expense. Candidate should be flexible to travel.
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
RF Engineer LTE
6 months +
USA
Job Description: RF engineers needed for LTE design projects in Plano Skill set - Candidates must have tuning experience in UMTS/HDSPA design and/or LTE design. - Minimum 10 years of RF tuning experience, 5+ in UMTS/LTE. - Significant Actix and/or TEMS tool experience required - Good communication skills in English - Good troubleshooting skills (assessability, retainability, throughput, etc) - Candidate must have understanding of LTE fundamentals- Layer 3 analysis, KPI’s, etc. - Understand plumbing diagrams (diplexers, duplexers) - Candidate must be willing to travel within the US, lead a team, and work without supervision if necessary. - Able to identify and interpret customer requirements and develop plans to address them.
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
LTE RF Planning Enginner
5 months +
USA
The RF Planning Engineer will be required to independently perform RF network design and optimization activities during network rollout phase in cooperation with other parties such as site acquisition, implementation, backhaul design, and network integration.
Required Competencies and Skills:
• Perform link budget analysis, understand and utilize design criteria including coverage and traffic analysis
• Ensure data integrity of various morphology/topography databases and drive testing data for model tuning and calibration
• Perform nominal and detailed RF design, including site selection and site acquisition support
• Perform technical site survey
• Analyze and recommend equipment and antenna co-location requirements for different technologies
• Perform site build verification and acceptance
• Create site data-fills to support site integration
• Undertake network optimization and performance improvement tasks to achieve predefined key performance indicators (KPI)
Education & Experience or Other Requirements:
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, or Computer Science
• Two years work experience in RF network design and optimization
• LTE technology understanding and know-how
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
3G RNC radio Access Integrator
5 Months +
USA
3G RNC radio Access Integrator MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide Engineering support for RNC Integration Project with high level of the ex_nokia RNC and NodeB Skill set.
Key tasks of the job:
1. Remote Integration, System verification & acceptance and troubleshooting for 3G ex-Nokia RNC . Develop and maintain 3G RNC and NodeB project competence, process, and documents for network deployment.
2. Provide Project technical support for troubleshoot and resolve issues, escalations from project and overall responsible for the 3G RNC Integration and acceptance.
3. Participate in Issue investigation FOA, SW/ CD deployment, Software and new feature verification, MOP generation as well as test case creation- execution.
4. Provide support to customers for operations and maintenance of RAN Network elements including competence transfer to customers operations teams for local and remote operations and maintenance tasks.
5. Serve as local customer interface and coordinate communication for services and issues between customer market teams and NSN service lines.
6. Supports operations services such as traffic rehomes, network retunes, feature activations, network modification and Performance analysis.
7. Support Customer Lab for SW/ HW New Feature verification and validation.
8. Ensure quality customer satisfaction survey targets and carry end to end RAN support function
9. Work as Project Support Engineer for atomization of the process and improve in efficiency & execution of the taskRequired
Competencies and Skills:
• 4+ years experience in Project , technical support and Equipment implementation for 3G radio network controller elements ( RNC, NodeB ) in wireless communications networks, including understanding of Circuit Switch and Packet Switch Core network elements. Preference will be given to candidates that already have experience on NSN radio equipment.
• Has excellent IP, Unix experience and skills set.
• Understanding of network interface protocols, protocol analyzers and network specifications. Can independently use Network analyzer and other tools to troubleshoot technical problem
• Understanding of wireless network implementation and operations services.
Contact
Adam Bisenz
north_america@connect44.com
+41798198389
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Zain Iraq Plans Expansion into Kurdish North of the Country
Zain's Iraqi subsidiary is reported to be expanding its network into the north of the country and plans to launch services in the Kurdistan region early next year. The expansion takes it into direct competition with Korek, which has been the dominant operator in the region.
"We will be entering Kurdistan. You will see us in there, a fully fledged network, by the beginning of 2011 ... We want to reach all the Iraqis everywhere," Emad Makiya, the new CEO of Zain Iraq told Reuters in his first interview since taking over at the helm in June.
Makiya replaced the Group's Chief Executive, Mr Nabeel Bin Salamah who took direct management of the subsidiary in April after the then CEO, Mr Ali Al Dahwi was removed from the post without explanation and made a special advisor on Iraq for the Zain Group.
Makiya added that the Iraq unit would invest 16-20 percent of its revenue every year into upgrading and expanding its network in the country for at least the next three years.
The country has three operators, Zain, Asiacell and Korek Telecom. Asiacell is actually a consortium is comprised of Asiacell Iraq - the earlier license holder, Qatar's Qtel and investment banking group, MerchantBridge. Orascom owned the Iraqna network, but failed to get an operating license in the last round of auctions and had tried to set up a joint venture with Korek Telecom but that fell apart. The break-down has left Korek with a national license, but coverage which is limited to mainly the Northern region of the country. An expansion to national coverage would need the financial muscle of an outside partner, and there are ongoing talks with Etisalat that seem to be dragging on for a long time. Iraqna was later sold to Zain.
The government has recently announced plans to award a fourth national mobile license, although the timeline for the license tender is not known.
On the web: Reuters
Article published on 24th August 2010
"We will be entering Kurdistan. You will see us in there, a fully fledged network, by the beginning of 2011 ... We want to reach all the Iraqis everywhere," Emad Makiya, the new CEO of Zain Iraq told Reuters in his first interview since taking over at the helm in June.
Makiya replaced the Group's Chief Executive, Mr Nabeel Bin Salamah who took direct management of the subsidiary in April after the then CEO, Mr Ali Al Dahwi was removed from the post without explanation and made a special advisor on Iraq for the Zain Group.
Makiya added that the Iraq unit would invest 16-20 percent of its revenue every year into upgrading and expanding its network in the country for at least the next three years.
The country has three operators, Zain, Asiacell and Korek Telecom. Asiacell is actually a consortium is comprised of Asiacell Iraq - the earlier license holder, Qatar's Qtel and investment banking group, MerchantBridge. Orascom owned the Iraqna network, but failed to get an operating license in the last round of auctions and had tried to set up a joint venture with Korek Telecom but that fell apart. The break-down has left Korek with a national license, but coverage which is limited to mainly the Northern region of the country. An expansion to national coverage would need the financial muscle of an outside partner, and there are ongoing talks with Etisalat that seem to be dragging on for a long time. Iraqna was later sold to Zain.
The government has recently announced plans to award a fourth national mobile license, although the timeline for the license tender is not known.
On the web: Reuters
Article published on 24th August 2010
Looking for Ericsson 3G RNC Engineers.
Hi,
Currently Looking for Ericsson 3G RNC Engineers.
we need Candidates who have experience in commissioning & integration of Ericsson 3G RNC.
Location:India
Nationality:Any
Salary: Negotiable.
It’s On the Payroll of Linkquest telecom ltd.
If you are interested for these positions and looking for new contracts then please send me your updated resume or else pass this detail to your friends or colleagues who might be interested.
With Best Regards
Jawwad Hussain
||LinkQuest Telecom Ltd |
|G-25, Sector-3|Noida, India |
Office: +91-120-4634000|Mobile: +91 9650890972|
|Fax: +91-120-4634040|
Email: jawwad.hussain@linkquestindia.com
Website:http://www.linkquestindia.com|
Currently Looking for Ericsson 3G RNC Engineers.
we need Candidates who have experience in commissioning & integration of Ericsson 3G RNC.
Location:India
Nationality:Any
Salary: Negotiable.
It’s On the Payroll of Linkquest telecom ltd.
If you are interested for these positions and looking for new contracts then please send me your updated resume or else pass this detail to your friends or colleagues who might be interested.
With Best Regards
Jawwad Hussain
||LinkQuest Telecom Ltd |
|G-25, Sector-3|Noida, India |
Office: +91-120-4634000|Mobile: +91 9650890972|
|Fax: +91-120-4634040|
Email: jawwad.hussain@linkquestindia.com
Website:http://www.linkquestindia.com|
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Test engineer - 6 months contract - Belgium - Excellent rates- English and Dutch speaking role
We are urgently looking for a test engineer to work on a 6 month contract in Belgium. We have a very good chance of securing this contract position and the telephone interviews will happen the same day you submit your profile.
• At least 4 years relevant experience in software testing of complex applications
• Sound knowledge of a test methodology (TMap, STBox, ISTQB, …)
• An ISTQB certification is an asset
• Minimal programming knowledge (C#, .Net, SQL, XML, …)
• Experience of testing interconnected data-driven applications is a plus
• Knowledge of the UML modeling language is an asset
• Tools:
o Documentation tools (Microsoft Office or equivalent)
o Knowledge of a test management tool is an asset
Please apply immediately for a telephone interview. Send your CV asap to roma.mace@evesagar.com
• At least 4 years relevant experience in software testing of complex applications
• Sound knowledge of a test methodology (TMap, STBox, ISTQB, …)
• An ISTQB certification is an asset
• Minimal programming knowledge (C#, .Net, SQL, XML, …)
• Experience of testing interconnected data-driven applications is a plus
• Knowledge of the UML modeling language is an asset
• Tools:
o Documentation tools (Microsoft Office or equivalent)
o Knowledge of a test management tool is an asset
Please apply immediately for a telephone interview. Send your CV asap to roma.mace@evesagar.com
Looking for a RF Inbuilding / Small Cells Design Lead – Plano, TX
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Fusion Solutions Inc., a leading Telecom Consulting Service Company, is seeking experienced RF Inbuilding / Small Cells Design Lead.
Request #: 9867
Position Name: Small Cells Design Lead
Start Date: September 2010
Duration: Long Term
Site Address: Pleasanton, CA
Scope of Work:
• Expert in Inbuilding design using iBwave tool
• Understands and can implement wave tracing RF designs both below and above clutter
• Experienced in model tuning and predictive simulation calibration
• Proven experience in infill design and interference mitigation
• Previous experience in RF designs of San Francisco bay area a plus
• Ericsson RAN experience a plus
Fusion offers a comprehensive benefits plan for employees to include; medical/dental/vision and 401k plan. To learn more about our benefits please visit our web site at: www.fusionsolutionsinc.com
To apply forward your resume and salary requirements to attention Fatima at e-mail: fa@fusionsolutionsinc.com or call at 214-432-1995.
Thanks
Fatima
Fusion Solutions Inc., a leading Telecom Consulting Service Company, is seeking experienced RF Inbuilding / Small Cells Design Lead.
Request #: 9867
Position Name: Small Cells Design Lead
Start Date: September 2010
Duration: Long Term
Site Address: Pleasanton, CA
Scope of Work:
• Expert in Inbuilding design using iBwave tool
• Understands and can implement wave tracing RF designs both below and above clutter
• Experienced in model tuning and predictive simulation calibration
• Proven experience in infill design and interference mitigation
• Previous experience in RF designs of San Francisco bay area a plus
• Ericsson RAN experience a plus
Fusion offers a comprehensive benefits plan for employees to include; medical/dental/vision and 401k plan. To learn more about our benefits please visit our web site at: www.fusionsolutionsinc.com
To apply forward your resume and salary requirements to attention Fatima at e-mail: fa@fusionsolutionsinc.com or call at 214-432-1995.
Thanks
Fatima
Core Implementation Manager for Nicaragua
I am urgently looking for an Implementation Core Manager for a contract position in Nicaragua to start on August 27th 2010.
The ideal candidate needs to have a solid Ericsson experience performing the following:
This resourcce will coordinate execution of the project as implementation manager.
• Organize and coordinate the planning, resource requirements, and
implementation activities with the Project Manager, Customer,
Resources and Suppliers.
• Handle implementation questions and problems from own
organization, Suppliers and Customer.
• Handle work orders and compensation issues when there are
deviations.
• Contribute in evaluating to sourcing in technical and quality standards
in selection of suppliers and resources.
• Contribute in tender phase regarding implementation related issues.
• Introduce new products and methods toward suppliers and resources.
• Assure that the Customer approves and accept implementation work,
act on any outstanding items and follow up of the progress.
• Plan and follow up of quality assurance.
Please send me an updated CV at oscar.guerra@networkersPlc.com
Oscar Guerra
NetworkersPlc Latin America
+52 55 3000 8252
The ideal candidate needs to have a solid Ericsson experience performing the following:
This resourcce will coordinate execution of the project as implementation manager.
• Organize and coordinate the planning, resource requirements, and
implementation activities with the Project Manager, Customer,
Resources and Suppliers.
• Handle implementation questions and problems from own
organization, Suppliers and Customer.
• Handle work orders and compensation issues when there are
deviations.
• Contribute in evaluating to sourcing in technical and quality standards
in selection of suppliers and resources.
• Contribute in tender phase regarding implementation related issues.
• Introduce new products and methods toward suppliers and resources.
• Assure that the Customer approves and accept implementation work,
act on any outstanding items and follow up of the progress.
• Plan and follow up of quality assurance.
Please send me an updated CV at oscar.guerra@networkersPlc.com
Oscar Guerra
NetworkersPlc Latin America
+52 55 3000 8252
3G Optimization Engineers - KSA
Job Description:
• Monitor & analyze the WCDMA/HSDPA Radio Network Statistics on daily basis.
• Achieve & maintain the Radio Network Performance as per the contracted KPIs (Accessibility, Retain ability, Mobility & Service Integrity.
• Responsible for reducing congestion and drops, improving the IRAT Handover, Soft Handover, Location Update, Paging, CSSR, RRC Connection & RAB Establishment Success rate in his designated area for all Voice, Video Packet & High Speed, issuing capacity requests whenever needed.
• Ability to use the following tools: TCPU, Tems Investigation, Tems Visualization, MOshell, OSS, GPEH, UETR, CTR, BO, MCOM & MapInfo.
• Be involved in trial projects for new products & features.
• Act as a mentor for the younger STC engineers.
Qualification (formal education needed):
• The 3G Optimization Engineer should have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with a minimum of 3 years optimization experience
mklasson@saudinetworkers.com
• Monitor & analyze the WCDMA/HSDPA Radio Network Statistics on daily basis.
• Achieve & maintain the Radio Network Performance as per the contracted KPIs (Accessibility, Retain ability, Mobility & Service Integrity.
• Responsible for reducing congestion and drops, improving the IRAT Handover, Soft Handover, Location Update, Paging, CSSR, RRC Connection & RAB Establishment Success rate in his designated area for all Voice, Video Packet & High Speed, issuing capacity requests whenever needed.
• Ability to use the following tools: TCPU, Tems Investigation, Tems Visualization, MOshell, OSS, GPEH, UETR, CTR, BO, MCOM & MapInfo.
• Be involved in trial projects for new products & features.
• Act as a mentor for the younger STC engineers.
Qualification (formal education needed):
• The 3G Optimization Engineer should have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with a minimum of 3 years optimization experience
mklasson@saudinetworkers.com
2G Optimization Engineer needed for Egypt
Hi All
I am urgently looking for a 2G Optimization Engineer to work on a 3 month rolling contract with Ericsson Egypt.
The successful candidate MUST have drive test and business object experience, as well as a strong Ericsson and 2G background.
If you are interested please send your CV as soon as possible.
You MUST be available in one month to start this position so please do not apply if you are unavailable.
Kind Regards
Lauren Collins
Sales Support
Tangent International
Email : lauren.collins@tanint.com
Direct: +441277 635863
Fax: +441277 633133
I am urgently looking for a 2G Optimization Engineer to work on a 3 month rolling contract with Ericsson Egypt.
The successful candidate MUST have drive test and business object experience, as well as a strong Ericsson and 2G background.
If you are interested please send your CV as soon as possible.
You MUST be available in one month to start this position so please do not apply if you are unavailable.
Kind Regards
Lauren Collins
Sales Support
Tangent International
Email : lauren.collins@tanint.com
Direct: +441277 635863
Fax: +441277 633133
Digicel Launches Consumer WiMAX Network in Jamaica
Under the banner, "Plug, Pay and Go," the weekend saw the official launch of Digicel's WiMAX network in Jamaica. The network is available across all fourteen parishes covering 60% of the population and 200 communities with further rollout planned. That translates to 410,000 households in Jamaica.
Digicel says that it has leveraged its existing network and investment in Jamaica of over US$850 million with a further investment of US$22.7 million in rolling out the WiMAX network.
Customers have unlimited usage and can choose between affordable prepaid 7 day, 14 day or 30 day plans or a monthly postpaid plan.
Colm Delves, Digicel Group CEO, comments; "This is the biggest thing we have done in Jamaica since we launched here nearly ten years ago. Digicel is delivering the fastest and best wireless broadband service to customers across Jamaica and bringing the internet to people and places who have never had it before.
"Recent research from CESifo suggests that a 10% increase in broadband penetration can help to raise annual per capita GDP growth by 0.9 to 1.5 percentage points. With Digicel 4G Broadband, we are making wireless broadband internet an easy-to-access, affordable reality and empowering Jamaican people and businesses to get the best out of the internet -- whenever and however they want it. With Digicel 4G Broadband, the possibilities are endless."
Article published on 23rd August 2010
Digicel says that it has leveraged its existing network and investment in Jamaica of over US$850 million with a further investment of US$22.7 million in rolling out the WiMAX network.
Customers have unlimited usage and can choose between affordable prepaid 7 day, 14 day or 30 day plans or a monthly postpaid plan.
Colm Delves, Digicel Group CEO, comments; "This is the biggest thing we have done in Jamaica since we launched here nearly ten years ago. Digicel is delivering the fastest and best wireless broadband service to customers across Jamaica and bringing the internet to people and places who have never had it before.
"Recent research from CESifo suggests that a 10% increase in broadband penetration can help to raise annual per capita GDP growth by 0.9 to 1.5 percentage points. With Digicel 4G Broadband, we are making wireless broadband internet an easy-to-access, affordable reality and empowering Jamaican people and businesses to get the best out of the internet -- whenever and however they want it. With Digicel 4G Broadband, the possibilities are endless."
Article published on 23rd August 2010
Nokia Siemens Networks Wins Indian 3G Network Contract
India's Tata Teleservices (TTSL) has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to support the launch of its new 3G network. Nokia Siemens Networks will provide network implementation and managed services to ensure a smooth rollout, improved network performance and seamless introduction of new services. The company will also provide its NetAct network management system to monitor, manage and optimize the 3G/HSPA+ network, and supply other operational support systems.
"There is huge demand for mobile Internet access in India, and that's what 3G brings," said Mr. AG Rao, chief technology officerand president, Enterprise Business, TTSL. "We want to move quickly, which is why we're the first to secure our key 3G technology and services supplier. Nokia Siemens Networks has demonstrated capabilities in our previous 2G deployments, and with its technological superiority it has facilitated us with the fastest time-to-market for new services, and the best value for combined operating and capital costs for mobile networks."
No financial or timeline details were provided.
Article published on 23rd August 2010
"There is huge demand for mobile Internet access in India, and that's what 3G brings," said Mr. AG Rao, chief technology officerand president, Enterprise Business, TTSL. "We want to move quickly, which is why we're the first to secure our key 3G technology and services supplier. Nokia Siemens Networks has demonstrated capabilities in our previous 2G deployments, and with its technological superiority it has facilitated us with the fastest time-to-market for new services, and the best value for combined operating and capital costs for mobile networks."
No financial or timeline details were provided.
Article published on 23rd August 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Nokia Signs Mobile Content Deal with India's Reliance Communications
India's Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Nokia have inked a deal to promote Nokia's mobile content services, Ovi to RCOM customers. The agreement covers making available Ovi Life Tools services targeted at the rural and semi-urban segments for Reliance customers and exclusive offers on Ovi Music Unlimited (OMU) devices.
Commenting on its relationship with Nokia, Mr Vrajesh Shelat, Head - Wireless Data Services & Alliances, Reliance Communications said, "In the last two quarters, there has been a significant adoption of smartphones by Indian consumers. We have seen the sales of smartphones on our Network increase manifold. With the rollout of 3G, we see a huge opportunity in fostering a mutually beneficial business relationship to offer customers unique Voice, data as well as VAS innovations with Nokia."
Ovi Life Tools, a range of services covering Agriculture, Education and Entertainment targeted at both urban and rural consumers will be an integral component of this RCOM & Nokia alliance. Reliance will offer Ovi Life Tools services in two versions, Subscription and Pay per Use. While the Subscription Service for education and entertainment services will be offered at Rs.30/Month and the agriculture service at Rs.60/Month. The Pay-per-Use will be priced at Rs.3/Request.
Mobile Music has become increasingly popular among the Indian consumers. According to some estimates close to 40% young people prefer to listen to music on their mobile phones. To make it easier for consumers, RCOM GSM customers can download music upto 12GB data usage (approximately 2400 songs) from Nokia's music service - Ovi Music Unlimited (OMU).
Consumers who buy a Nokia Ovi Music Unlimited enabled device are able to download millions of tracks for free, direct to their mobile phone or to their PC from the Ovi Music Store for 12 months.
As part of this alliance, RCOM is also offering mobile data bundle of 1.2GB on Nokia GPRS enabled handsets (other than the OMU-enabled phones). In addition, RCOM is offering up to 1800 free on-net minutes bundled with Nokia 1800. These free voice minutes and mobile data bundles has a validity of six months.
Commenting on its relationship with Nokia, Mr Vrajesh Shelat, Head - Wireless Data Services & Alliances, Reliance Communications said, "In the last two quarters, there has been a significant adoption of smartphones by Indian consumers. We have seen the sales of smartphones on our Network increase manifold. With the rollout of 3G, we see a huge opportunity in fostering a mutually beneficial business relationship to offer customers unique Voice, data as well as VAS innovations with Nokia."
Ovi Life Tools, a range of services covering Agriculture, Education and Entertainment targeted at both urban and rural consumers will be an integral component of this RCOM & Nokia alliance. Reliance will offer Ovi Life Tools services in two versions, Subscription and Pay per Use. While the Subscription Service for education and entertainment services will be offered at Rs.30/Month and the agriculture service at Rs.60/Month. The Pay-per-Use will be priced at Rs.3/Request.
Mobile Music has become increasingly popular among the Indian consumers. According to some estimates close to 40% young people prefer to listen to music on their mobile phones. To make it easier for consumers, RCOM GSM customers can download music upto 12GB data usage (approximately 2400 songs) from Nokia's music service - Ovi Music Unlimited (OMU).
Consumers who buy a Nokia Ovi Music Unlimited enabled device are able to download millions of tracks for free, direct to their mobile phone or to their PC from the Ovi Music Store for 12 months.
As part of this alliance, RCOM is also offering mobile data bundle of 1.2GB on Nokia GPRS enabled handsets (other than the OMU-enabled phones). In addition, RCOM is offering up to 1800 free on-net minutes bundled with Nokia 1800. These free voice minutes and mobile data bundles has a validity of six months.
Customer Support Engineer/Lab Specialist - Dallas
I’m an independent telco/technology recruiter, and I’m conducting a search for a full-time/perm customer support engineer/lab specialist (US citizen or green card holder). My innovative client is considered a leader in developing and delivering applications in their product area in support of the exploding mobile data arena. The client has a wireless customer in Dallas, and we are searching for a very customer-oriented engineer to work onsite doing lab testing and installations.
Requirements include a strong background in wireless networks (CDMA), ideally wireless packet core. Ideal skills include experience with at least several of the following: Sun hardware (Solaris); Perl and Unix scripting; radius/diameter; switch configuration; Oracle databases; TCP/IP/UDP; network troubleshooting. The individual currently in this role has been promoted.
My client is well-established and is growing quickly. They offer very good benefits including health insurance (H, D, V, STD, LTD), an excellent vacation plan, 401K, an employee-friendly atmosphere, and a company culture of promoting from within. This position pays in the upper $80K’s to mid-90K’s, plus bonus.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume through my website – www.brodierecruiting.com.
Thanks, and I hope to hear from you soon!
Kathy Brodie
Brodie Recruiting Services
www.brodierecruiting.com
Requirements include a strong background in wireless networks (CDMA), ideally wireless packet core. Ideal skills include experience with at least several of the following: Sun hardware (Solaris); Perl and Unix scripting; radius/diameter; switch configuration; Oracle databases; TCP/IP/UDP; network troubleshooting. The individual currently in this role has been promoted.
My client is well-established and is growing quickly. They offer very good benefits including health insurance (H, D, V, STD, LTD), an excellent vacation plan, 401K, an employee-friendly atmosphere, and a company culture of promoting from within. This position pays in the upper $80K’s to mid-90K’s, plus bonus.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume through my website – www.brodierecruiting.com.
Thanks, and I hope to hear from you soon!
Kathy Brodie
Brodie Recruiting Services
www.brodierecruiting.com
OSS Senior Architect in Syria
Position details:
- Contractor position
- Location: Syria
- Start Date September 2010, duration 4-6 months
- NSN network
Task and skills:
- Lead all design activities
- Pull all the disparate, disjointed and complex components into a cohesive end-to-end solution that addresses the customer's requirements
- Develop and document the high-level and low-level design, agree it with the customer
- Lead the team of architects and engineers to implement the solution
- Gain commercial acceptance
- Significant experience in the OSS domain
Experience of pulling together a design comprising the following:
- Multi-vendor integration for Fault Management and Performance Management
- Trouble Ticket Management
Please send your CV to: office@matritel.eu
- Contractor position
- Location: Syria
- Start Date September 2010, duration 4-6 months
- NSN network
Task and skills:
- Lead all design activities
- Pull all the disparate, disjointed and complex components into a cohesive end-to-end solution that addresses the customer's requirements
- Develop and document the high-level and low-level design, agree it with the customer
- Lead the team of architects and engineers to implement the solution
- Gain commercial acceptance
- Significant experience in the OSS domain
Experience of pulling together a design comprising the following:
- Multi-vendor integration for Fault Management and Performance Management
- Trouble Ticket Management
Please send your CV to: office@matritel.eu
Residents Claim Weight of Base Stations is Damaging Their Building
Tenants of a residential block of flats in New York city, USA have complained to their local authorities after cracks started appearing in the walls after a second base station was installed on the roof of the building.
The roof of the building had a T-Mobile base station installed back in 2006, but when the AT&T base station was added to the building last year, cracks started appearing in the walls and the tenants grew concerned that the weight of the towers and 20 antennas were the cause of the problems.
However, Roger Entner, an industry analyst with Nielsen, told the New York Times that the cellphone antennas were relatively light and the base stations not unduly heavy. "The base station only weighs a couple of hundred pounds - it's like three fat men," he said. "If that is cracking the stuff, the building has way bigger problems."
The tenants also claimed that the antennas were putting out excessive amounts of radio emissions, but chose not to add that to a lawsuit they are planning as it would have automatically moved the jurisdiction from the local government to the federal government.
On the web: New York Times
Article published on 22nd August 2010
The roof of the building had a T-Mobile base station installed back in 2006, but when the AT&T base station was added to the building last year, cracks started appearing in the walls and the tenants grew concerned that the weight of the towers and 20 antennas were the cause of the problems.
However, Roger Entner, an industry analyst with Nielsen, told the New York Times that the cellphone antennas were relatively light and the base stations not unduly heavy. "The base station only weighs a couple of hundred pounds - it's like three fat men," he said. "If that is cracking the stuff, the building has way bigger problems."
The tenants also claimed that the antennas were putting out excessive amounts of radio emissions, but chose not to add that to a lawsuit they are planning as it would have automatically moved the jurisdiction from the local government to the federal government.
On the web: New York Times
Article published on 22nd August 2010
Thai Court Throws Out Attempt to Block 3G License Auction
Thailand's Administrative Court has rejected a lawsuit that could have blocked the telecoms regulator, the NTC, from issuing 3G licenses. A former union leader at the state-owned telco, TOT has tried to claim that the regulator lacked the authority to issue the licenses.
He had argued that in the absence of another regulator, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, the NTC could not allocate radio spectrum in the 2.1Ghz bands. There have been previous attempts by unions to block the award of the licenses based on the lack of quorum at the regulator. Those were overturned when the board of the NTC was finally approved by the government.
Pornchai Meemark was once a powerful union leader for TOT but is now an employee of the company. The court ruled that as he personally did not represent any party that could suffer any impact from the license tender, he couldn't bring a lawsuit against the regulator.
The court also ruled the NTC regulations are mainly rules on licensing to ensure fair competition and are in the interest of the state, as well as guidelines for licensees to follow. The regulations do not affect users of the services, but rather the licensees, it ruled.
The latest draft plan from the regulator for its long-delayed 3G license auction recently raised the reserve price for the 3G licence to Bt12.8 billion (US$393 million), up from Bt10 billion in the original draft. There will be three licenses offered, and if there are any licenses unclaimed, then they will be offered up for sale again within three months.
All three licenses will be for 15-megahertz bandwidth, which will be valid for 15 years.
The regulator has been trying to award 3G licenses for the past couple of years, but the political situation has made it difficult. The regulator had been short of four directors, preventing decisions from being taken, but this has been resolved after the nominees recently secured Royal endorsement.
Several of the networks are already running limited trials of WCDMA networks in the 900Mhz band, but lack of radio spectrum is hampering their deployment.
On the web: Bangkok Post
Article published on 22nd August 2010
He had argued that in the absence of another regulator, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, the NTC could not allocate radio spectrum in the 2.1Ghz bands. There have been previous attempts by unions to block the award of the licenses based on the lack of quorum at the regulator. Those were overturned when the board of the NTC was finally approved by the government.
Pornchai Meemark was once a powerful union leader for TOT but is now an employee of the company. The court ruled that as he personally did not represent any party that could suffer any impact from the license tender, he couldn't bring a lawsuit against the regulator.
The court also ruled the NTC regulations are mainly rules on licensing to ensure fair competition and are in the interest of the state, as well as guidelines for licensees to follow. The regulations do not affect users of the services, but rather the licensees, it ruled.
The latest draft plan from the regulator for its long-delayed 3G license auction recently raised the reserve price for the 3G licence to Bt12.8 billion (US$393 million), up from Bt10 billion in the original draft. There will be three licenses offered, and if there are any licenses unclaimed, then they will be offered up for sale again within three months.
All three licenses will be for 15-megahertz bandwidth, which will be valid for 15 years.
The regulator has been trying to award 3G licenses for the past couple of years, but the political situation has made it difficult. The regulator had been short of four directors, preventing decisions from being taken, but this has been resolved after the nominees recently secured Royal endorsement.
Several of the networks are already running limited trials of WCDMA networks in the 900Mhz band, but lack of radio spectrum is hampering their deployment.
On the web: Bangkok Post
Article published on 22nd August 2010
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