During the weekend i was reached by the tragic message that one of my great sources of inspiration – Veli-Pekka Niitamo – had passed away. I have had the fortune to work with a number of inspiring persons within the telecoms sector over the years. Vellu was one of them.
We worked together for some years to form what later became the European Networks of Living Labs (http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/) and Veli was always a positive optimistic force that truly inspired his co-workers.
He strongly believed in that citizens around the world makes up a strong source of innovation, that if put together, could really make a difference and would be the basis for a next generation innovation system in Europe. There are obviuos signs for example in Open Source SW that such opportunity is reachable. Working with Veli trying to make big companies such as Nokia, IBM and Ericsson to network with user communities all over Europe was a true honor and i will always remember those days as a fruitful part of my career. May you rest in peace and hope your inspiration shared by others will last for long time!
Just nu pågår en fullkomlig explosion av datatrafiken i de mobila kommunikationsnäten. Bedömare anser att upp emot 1000 gånger högre kapacitet behövs. Vi arbetar med utformning av dessa mobila kommunikationsnät nät, på uppdrag av världsledande leverantörer.
Vi är ett team med erfarna systemingenjörer och behöver nu bli fler! Du bör ha gedigen erfarenhet av t.ex. basstationer, controllers, routrar, driftstödssystem eller gateways.
Vi tror att framgång föds ur öppenhet, gemensam inspiration och kreativitet, och löser därför våra uppgifter i team både inom företaget och tillsammans med våra kunder. Nedan hittar du en liten video från julfesten härom veckan. Kanske ger det dig en bild om vilka vi är och därmed stimulera dig till att ta steget att höra av dig till oss!
Jag finns tillgänglig alla mellandagar, så kom förbi så tar vi en kopp kaffe från stans bästa kaffebryggare
/Mats
P.S. Vi har bra anställningsförhållanden, med sponsring av friskvård, flexibel arbetstid.
Som anställd hos oss deltar du i vårt vinstdelningssystem som ger dig ett bra incitament att delta i företagets utveckling och belönar oss alla eftersom vi är framgångsrika.
In recent days we have seen an announcement from NokiaSiemens networks announcing a cut in workforce by 17.000 employees. A radical move one can think from a company that quite recently was formed as a joint venture by two rater big companies as a step to meet quite the same trend that now force them to do a further cut down. The official story is that the telecom business is now so big and require so much R&D that NSN can no longer afford to do it all. They need to specialize and focus on selected parts!
At the same time we see a remarkable increase in mobile data volumes. The competition are rapidly increasing you may think.
So, when will this hit the operators? (if ever). We are reading about some merger discussion, like Deutsche Telekom and AT&T, and there has been formed some rather big consortias in the operator domain. So we have seen consolidation in the operator domain for a while, but when will we start to see specialization (focus)?
I guess as long as the traditional voice and SMS business is so profitable for the operators, there is no possibility to focus in one or the other business. But will that situation prevail? Maybe we will soon see a dramatic drop of voice revenues. Because basically it does not make sense to charge 100 or so times more for voice compared to data.
As you probably know, we travel sometimes to China. During a travel in October 2011, we took the opportunity to go to Huangshan mountains in Anhui (or Yellow mountains in English). This is about 5 hours drive southwest of Shanghai.
Thanks to our friend and collegue, Wen Dapeng, who arranged with driver and hotel this trip was well organized and could be done during a normal weekend.
Below you can see the beautiful sceneries from our trip….it was a pleasure
Its now August and summer vacations are going to it´s end. In northern Sweden this has been a very sunny and warm summer (as was the winter equally cold).
As usual there has been some fishing for me as well as fixing things on the house and football pitch.
Today, officials from Beijing announced that Chinese authorities have agreed to buy Luleå. This is the first time in history that a country has bought a part of another country (not counting that the US bought Alaska from Russia long time ago).
Tonofpund (the officer in charge at Beijing administration) claimed that some of the important reasons was that Luleå healthcare and telecom infrastructure is very well developed and that there is much to learn. Chinese also want to be able to learn more on how to manage a city in Sweden. Furthermore, party officials from China wants a place in the west where to retire when leaving their assignments.
Will Hapeng from Luleå authorities claimed that through this deal, the future development of the city of Luleå is secured and that many different companies in Luleå will now have new market channels.
Tomorrow, there will be a large sale of surplus goods from China arriving with a specially chartered ship to celebrate the agreement. This sale will be held close to Willys in south harbour in Luleå.
At some point, we all need to move our minds beyond what we believe is the “truth”. In telecoms, the old ways of doing things are rapidly undergoing a massive change. Services are moving away from closed telecom environments and out on to the internet. Some people just dont get it!
Here is a funny movie to illustrate how famous people might react…..
Jag har för första gången fått uppleva en nyårsafton i Kina. Jag menar ett kinesiskt nyårsfirande – alltså den sista dagen i Oxens år och början på Tigerns. Man kan konstatera att det mesta av fyrverkerier tillverkas i Kina (såsom det mesta annat). Man känner sig närmast beskjuten – och det pågår i timtal
Arctos Labs arbetar med framkantens telekomlösningar åt kunder över hela världen. Vi söker dig som har en bred erfarenhet av att konstruera basstationer, transportlösningar, radio network controllers och driftstödssystem.
Du har ett stort eget driv, är kreativ, flexibel och givetvis kompetent. Du bör ha lång erfarenhet av att specificera och konstruera trådlösa kommunikationslösningar. Vi kräver faktiskt en hel del av dig, vem hade sagt att det skulle vara enkelt. Men å andra sidan erbjuder vi ett jobb utöver det vanliga i ett gäng utöver det vanliga.
Hos oss jobbar mycket kompetenta telekomexperter där vardagen präglas av samarbete, kretivitet och nybyggaranda. Det är aldrig långt mellan skratt och häftig argumentation. Om du gillar tekniska utmaningar och blir stimulerad av en diskussion med högt i tak så har vi kanske ett jobb åt just Dig.
Blir svensk kunskapsindustri utkonkurrerad av nya lågprisföretag från Asien? Kommer Sveriges IT industri att marginaliseras? En första reaktion i ljuset av att allt fler arbetstillfällen flyttas till lågkostnads-länder innebär att man ser dessa företag som hotfulla konkurrenter.
Vi hävdar istället att man bör se de nya företagen som potentiella kunder och samarbetspartners. Dessa företag har ofta en bra marknadsposition på den växande Asiatiska marknaden och kan istället innebära en tillväxtmöjlighet för svenska företag.
