Telecom Jobs
All telecom jobs advertised on Wireless Mobile Jobs Board are in the communications sector and are posted by companies operating in telecoms and IT, namely the area of IP convergence. The telecoms industry is working to deliver higher bandwidths for both mobile and wireless communications, in order to deliver applications that will in turn derive higher revenues.
Convergence is important for networks in the telecom jobs industry since they will want to provide voice, data and video applications (both streaming and downloadable) through different protocols like 3G, 4G, VoIP and WiMax. From a wireless and mobile standpoint, network operators are ideally looking to find a way of delivering all those applications on to one hand held device which delivers a positive user experience both in terms of well designed, intuitive software on handsets that have big enough screens and cool designs to appeal to end users. This is not only important for consumers but also for mobile workforces where enterprises, government and military sectors all have the same goal of being able to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the field through a single device.
Emergency services in public safely have traditionally used analogue radio, though this has changed now to digital radio, with high encryption on a private network. In terms of telecom jobs, this means that network operators are always looking for engineers and architects that create and manage the network infrastructure necessary to make this vision a reality.
With all these major initiatives going on, as well as the global expansion of mobile telecoms networks in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, one would suspect the mobile and wireless telecom jobs industry is a great place for employment.
The wireless and mobile telecom jobs industry is complex and technically driven, so the majority of jobs created are engineering jobs. These jobs can be broken down into a number of sectors, including network engineering jobs. There are network designers and architects, who essentially scope out what the network needs to be capable of and how to ensure it meets those needs in terms of scalability, quality of service, billing and CRM. Telecom jobs in network planning and optimisation are also to be found in abundance, which are all about improving the capability of the network in order to maximize revenue and profit. In addition, new techniques to improve networks have to first be tested, so there are a broad range of jobs for telecoms test engineers. Jobs in testing exist to establish whether the software, middle ware, firmware and hardware and all capable of meeting the performance specifications necessary to meet industry standards and end user expectations.
This can sometimes require tests to be carried out in the field, so field test engineers are deployed where there is a need to improve the radio coverage, for example. Propagation is often the key area for improving. In other words how the radio signal is transmitted, ideally avoiding buildings, built up areas and mountains and especially metals in the structures of office blocks or rocks like flint, which do not allow radio waves to penetrate. To get optimum coverage, it is important that the work planned to develop the network from the outset is done correctly, so site engineers and installation engineers are important as part of this function. When the infrastructure is in place, quality engineers can assess and monitor network performance and often repair and maintain base stations and other expensive telecoms network equipment by interrogating the systems remotely.
The systems set up to do this are again driven by saving money. By having to send a maintenance engineer up to the top of a mountain to flip a switch or change a circuit board. With all these highly qualified engineers fulfilling their particular role, there needs to be a resource that can take a broader view, bringing all these skills and talents together in order to ensure work going on simultaneously is carried out in professional manner, ensuring deadlines are met with limited people and financial resources. This is the role of project managers and/or systems engineers who plan how best to effectively coordinate workforces on a critical path for the installation of networks, network upgrades and maintenance work for 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G networks, mesh networks and so on. This is all done to live networks, and ideally the end user is not aware of changes being made whilst the network is in use.
