In my last update, we talked about things to do during a #Telecoms #NetworkFreeze. One of those things was to prepare for the new year. Here are things I’m thinking about as the New Year approaches. No particular order. ✅Prepare the New Year budget. ✅Have you identified recurring activities which can be automated? ✅Have you …
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What do you do to stay warm in a freeze?
Yesterday we talked about the Network Freeze. Here’s a link to that discussion: https://lnkd.in/gU8kQQN During a network Freeze, many of your coworkers are OOTO. The pace in the office might be a little slower. Fewer meetings, phone calls, emails; fewer interruptions. There might be time to work on back-burner projects, or maybe not-yet-approved projects. I …
Does your network freeze over the holidays?
Many networks do. It’s common in Telecoms to freeze network changes during holidays. During a Network Freeze, few maintenance activities are scheduled. A freeze is smart when so many people are out of the office OOTO. Not only your own support staff but vendors and service providers, too. Any outage caused by a planned maintenance …
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Who’s going to #MWC19?
Mobile World Congress is the preeminent annual event in #Mobile Telecoms, with almost 110,000 attendees expected this year. We are so easily distracted by the shiny and new. Industry press is full of articles about cutting-edge technologies: #5G #IoT #mmWave #MIMO #NetworkSlicing #CBRS #blockchain #eSIM #ORAN #URLLC #MEC #kitchensink I threw in that last one …
A Critic of Marketing Repents
During the late 1980s, I was attending university and living on the beach in San Diego. My studies required me to spend a considerable amount of time on the beach (ahem!) and I started using a sunscreen product from Neutrogena. The sunscreen had the requisite SPF 30, but I liked it because it had a …