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14 January 2003, 10:36 AM
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Hi all,
Currently looking for a job and would like to join a Telecoms or Datacomms company.
Can anyone help me cover the market by naming any they know...
I have done numerous searches and have contacted a few but I dont want to miss any....
All suggestions welcome!
Currently looking for a job and would like to join a Telecoms or Datacomms company.
Can anyone help me cover the market by naming any they know...
I have done numerous searches and have contacted a few but I dont want to miss any....
All suggestions welcome!
14 January 2003, 01:26 PM
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You must have a death wish attempting to join the telecomms industry - most people who I knew in telecomms are now working as painters/decorators or in garden design.
We have had 8 account managers with our current telecomms providor in a year !
We have had 8 account managers with our current telecomms providor in a year !
14 January 2003, 02:26 PM
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Gary I am having a few probs with the site.... i.e. it keeps asking for a login, but I cant find anywhere to register???? Phoned the Maidenhead office and they said if I dont have a name there is no-one they can put me through too!!!
Can you drop me an email please?!
Can you drop me an email please?!
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14 January 2003, 02:30 PM
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Equant
I work for them - to be honest no better or worse than any other large company that I've worked for. Owned by France Telecom and currently running the worlds largest network (despite the fact you've probably never heard of them!)
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I work for them - to be honest no better or worse than any other large company that I've worked for. Owned by France Telecom and currently running the worlds largest network (despite the fact you've probably never heard of them!)
Chris
14 January 2003, 02:52 PM
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Hi Plantie,
What area are you looking at getting into, Management, Sales, Project Management, Installation.........., Also, what is your background? Mail me if you don't want to broadcast to the world
Regards,
Andy
What area are you looking at getting into, Management, Sales, Project Management, Installation.........., Also, what is your background? Mail me if you don't want to broadcast to the world
Regards,
Andy
14 January 2003, 05:21 PM
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Andy YHM.
Well you would have, but it got sent back due to a permanent error..... could you mail me and I will reply!
Thanks
Chris YHM!
[Edited by Plantie - 1/14/2003 5:24:48 PM]
Well you would have, but it got sent back due to a permanent error..... could you mail me and I will reply!
Thanks
Chris YHM!
[Edited by Plantie - 1/14/2003 5:24:48 PM]
14 January 2003, 06:12 PM
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Chris L,
What do you at Equant? (AKA France Telecom) i used to have loads of dealings with the Nortel GSP telephony switch based in the Docklands (which used to be Global One, didn't Equant take them over?) did DMS 100/GSP software support plus a whole bunch of other stuff. Now looking for work after being made redundant at Nortel. I hear there is a position vacant for a Senior Nortel switch engineer at the Docklands site...wchi i have applied for
What do you at Equant? (AKA France Telecom) i used to have loads of dealings with the Nortel GSP telephony switch based in the Docklands (which used to be Global One, didn't Equant take them over?) did DMS 100/GSP software support plus a whole bunch of other stuff. Now looking for work after being made redundant at Nortel. I hear there is a position vacant for a Senior Nortel switch engineer at the Docklands site...wchi i have applied for
15 January 2003, 10:07 AM
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Hi Mark / ChrisL
Another nortel refugee, another telco - portal software (billing).. just down the road from equant..... Seems a pretty fair place to work (so far)
Besides, being made redundant is quite lucrative
We were hiring not so long ago (only been here 2 months) but I don't know.
- M.
Another nortel refugee, another telco - portal software (billing).. just down the road from equant..... Seems a pretty fair place to work (so far)
Besides, being made redundant is quite lucrative We were hiring not so long ago (only been here 2 months) but I don't know.
- M.
15 January 2003, 10:21 AM
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Hey I work for WorldCom and its still going fine. Got my bonus at Xmas so all is not as bad as the press make out. Admittedly we arent hiring so you wouldnt get a job anyway but hey.
15 January 2003, 12:27 PM
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Just in the process of finishing up with my present company, where I have been selling IP infrastructure solutions via Satellite into god forsaken places in the world ...
Benn having a look arouns at the Telecoms market in the Uk and from the outside it still looks pretty depressed...
Guys with loads of experience all having to drop wage brackets etc and take steps sideways etc..
Anyone got any jobs for me then
Benn having a look arouns at the Telecoms market in the Uk and from the outside it still looks pretty depressed...
Guys with loads of experience all having to drop wage brackets etc and take steps sideways etc..
Anyone got any jobs for me then
15 January 2003, 01:01 PM
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Gary.... thanks mate but after spending 15 mins trying to register it wouldnt let me upload my CV.... (it is smaller thant the 1 mb restrcition) Had to give up.... 
Andy YHM and thanks everyone so far....
Anymore names welcome!
Andy YHM and thanks everyone so far....
Anymore names welcome!
16 January 2003, 12:10 PM
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Another Nortel refugee here.
Currently work for AT&T and they are hiring as they are extremely strong in the market at the moment.
Plantie - what area are you looking to work? What location? If you want, mail me your CV as per profile address and I'll give it to my boss.
Currently work for AT&T and they are hiring as they are extremely strong in the market at the moment.
Plantie - what area are you looking to work? What location? If you want, mail me your CV as per profile address and I'll give it to my boss.
16 January 2003, 01:30 PM
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Work with Symposium and Meridian mainly, although I do defect into Definity and Avaya Switches with a little HiCom thrown in for variety. Mainly for Europe, Middle East and Africa at the moment.
Everything from sticking a new phone on a desk (this site only...unfortunately!) to writing complete call centres, script by script from scratch.
Mainly for Europe, Middle East and Africa at the moment. Everything from sticking a new phone on a desk (this site only...unfortunately!
) to writing complete call centres, script by script from scratch.
16 January 2003, 01:43 PM
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Ah. Products. What're they 
Got into telco's by accident. Spent 3+ years sat in the same desk developing management application add-ons that never got used (afaik 1 project actually went live 
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Now escaped to a billing company, become a consultant. 35% payrise (who said the market's crap ), could be sent anywhere in EMEA at the drop of a hat. They say a change is as good as a rest....
Then again sometimes wish I could get out of IT completely and do something like - oh - sweeping the streets? That season as a snowboard bum still seems like a really good idea
Got into telco's by accident. Spent 3+ years sat in the same desk developing management application add-ons that never got used (afaik 1 project actually went live )Now escaped to a billing company, become a consultant. 35% payrise (who said the market's crap
), could be sent anywhere in EMEA at the drop of a hat. They say a change is as good as a rest....Then again sometimes wish I could get out of IT completely and do something like - oh - sweeping the streets? That season as a snowboard bum still seems like a really good idea