I’ve been in the telecommunications industry for a very long time. My first job after university, back in the ancient times, was with ATT in Chicago. Since then, I have been privileged to work for many different telcos in a lot of different capacities.

What most people don’t know is that even though I have degrees in Statistics and a Masters Degree in Telecommunications, my original career was in IT. For more than half of my career, although I was working for telcos, I was doing that work as a telecoms IT guy. I am a true IT geek.

Once again, we finished another great week of running our Core Xtreme Revenue Assurance training class in Cairo. With fifteen people from Africa and the Middle East, it was another fantastic session for everyone involved.

A I have mentioned before, it always amazes me how each time we teach this class, we end up focusing on different issues than in previous sessions. This week, it seemed that the biggest issues were surrounding issues of margin assurance, specifically in areas of content and interconnect margins, as well as the margins for BTS’s and MSCs. We also had some in-depth discussions about the roles of regulators, and their stake in revenue assurance issues (due in no doubt to the fact that we had three regulators attending the class).