Developing Telecoms

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Central & Eastern Europe

Dr. Nicolae Oaca, Romanian telecommunications consultant, received Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, and MBA degree from the Canadian MBA Program held by Universite de Quebec a Montreal, Canada. He was a counselor for strategy to RomTelecom's CEO till 2003. Until 1998, he has worked with Romanian National Research Institute been engaged in R&D of transmissions equipment, CAD and circuit theory.

After 1996 he has been involved in restructuring Romanian telecommunications, becoming an opinion leader on telecommunications topics. In September 1996 he presented a strategic analysis of Romanian telecommunications used by the Romanian Ministry of Communications as ruling strategy in 1996. Also, since late 2004, he has advised the new ruling coalition to prepare a ruling strategy for telecommunications. Since January 2005, he is the Editor of Global Communications Newsletter (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/gcn/gcn0105.html), a chapter in IEEE Communications Magazine (http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/index.html ).

He is the author of many papers/interviews published by the most important international reviews: Public Network Europe, Telecommunications Intl, Global Wireless, Mobile Europe, IEEE Communications Magazine, CommunicationsWeek, Total Telecom, Connect World, etc. In 2007 he published "Guide to Romanian Telecommunications" marketed by DevelopingTelecoms [Link here].

He was Guest-Editor for "Telecommunications in Central & East Europe" feature topics published in IEEE Communications Magazine in August 2000, in November 2000 being invited to join the board of IEEE GCN, a monthly telecommunications newsletter published in IEEE Communications Magazine. In September 2002, he became a member of International Telecommunications Society (ITS) board. Also, he had presentations/papers at telecommunications conferences (ITS, IEEE, SoftComm, ITU, etc.), as well as interviews with radio or TV channels, newspapers, and reviews.

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Staff

Several people have asked who had the idea for DevelopingTELECOMS and who is on the team that is delivering it to you all. Well it is all principally down to the efforts of two people, Alec Barton and Michael Schwartz.

The names will be well known to a lot of people in the international telecoms business as they previously worked together on Asian Communications magazine - back in the days when it really was a magazine, if you know what I mean.

Alec, looking relaxed...

I guess you could say that DevelopingTELECOMS is Alec's idea. He was already responsible for giving the world Middle East Communications and Asian Communications (and some others besides - can you name them?). After the rather sudden demise of Icom Publications in 2003 he decided to take some time out before rushing back into print or pixels.

As is the way with these things, time out ended up including working on a couple of ICT events in Africa. This experience left him feeling how badly served developing markets are by the existing ICT media.

Michael, of course, was the editor of Asian Communications for several years - indeed I think it is fair to say that it was under his editorial leadership that the magazine achieved its greatest authority and respect. Previous to Asian Communications, Michael had stints as editor on several other technology magazines, as well as the leading publication for the global coal mining industry (go figure?). His other claim to fame is, of course, his appearance as a contestant on Mastermind, specialist subject Formula 1 motor racing, of which he remains a major fan.

Michael, in suit and tie!

Michael's feeling that less developed regions and countries get a rough deal in terms of specialist media coverage had lead him to push Asian Communications towards these markets, so he was an obvious recruit for DevelopingTELECOMS.

Alec lives in London and Michael has recently (summer 2007) relocated to Toronto from where he continues to cast his eye over the global developing telecoms scene. I'm not sure how come Michael is in the suit and Alec is, frankly speaking, looking a bit casual. I thought it was editors who were the scruffy ones and publishers who looked smart - oh well...

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