I’ve been banging on now for a couple weeks about using Cost Containment to advance your career. But what exactly is Cost Containment? Is it as simple as spending less money? Must essential services be foregone; customer-pleasing amenities eliminated? Cost Containment is about providing similar services more cheaply, or additional services for roughly the same …
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Infrastructure as an Expectation
I’ve said it before: the best infrastructure is invisible because you don’t see it until it breaks. Even worse, no one ever expects it to break. Infrastructure is taken for granted; always there, always doing what it should. When it does break, oh the outrage, the inconvenience. How could it fail at this time, why now? …
Advance Your Telecom Career with Cost Containment
It is often said that the best infrastructure is invisible because you don’t even know it is there until it breaks. In Telecoms, it means that the network should simply work without problems and the Technical Team responsible for that network remains behind the scenes, out of view. For telecom engineers, this approach can have …
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AIS will Participate in Thai Re-Auction
Yesterday Bangkok Post reported that Thailand’s largest mobile operator, Advanced Information Services, AIS, had agreed to participate in the re-auction of a single license of 10 MHz bandwidth in the 900 MHz spectrum. This is the license that JAS Mobile won in the auction last December and then forfeited by not making the first payment …
Thai Spectrum Re-Auction Progress
After weeks of relative quiet in the #Thai4G Spectrum story today there is interesting news. Joseph Waring at Mobile World Live gives the details. Essentially, here is the recap: The spectrum won by by Jas Mobile in the NBTC 900 MHz auction last December, then forfeited for non-payment, will be re-auctioned by order of the …