Strategic Network Planning Engineer
This job involves the estimation of the necessary expansions for BSS, NSS and VAS accord marketing and financial inputs.With the estimations mentioned in the last paragraph we make RFQ(Request for Proposal) and then we evaluate vendor’s offers in some aspects to be considered like technical solutions, pricing, schedule, features implementation, comparison with others countries of the operation, etc.As a part of planning team, I work with marketing inputs, like MOUs (minutes of use), new zones to be covered and new services to be improved (GPRS, EDGE, PoC, etc).-I verify if the projected traffic will be supported by installed capacity, if the network not support these predictions, the area decides the necessary growth of the investment.In this area, I worked in RFP for Uruguay’s new GSM network (America Movil requirement) and I was a part of the team who deploy the larger GSM netrok in Argentina and evaluate the other countries proposals like Peru, Paraguay, etc.