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
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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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