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Start Believing MTN One World Internet – Browse Abroad, Feel at Home

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An extract from Vanguard NG tech editorial.

PICTURE this: It’s the holiday season and you’re having the time of your life in a luxurious location outside the country. You want to tweet to your friends back home and tell them about your awesome experience, so you pick up your smart phone. Suddenly, a text message alert dampens your holiday spirit. Your data usage has expired, it reads. And you simply want to fly back home, and give your service provider a piece of your mind!

With stiff competition among telecoms operators, tariffs are gradually crashing as operators continue to give incentives to woo subscribers. However, many operators are not extending this reduction in data charges to tourist, business men and women, holiday makers, government functionaries and other people who travel abroad. As result of the high charges by operators, many travellers rarely have access to the internet using their mobile phones while roaming.

To avoid these charges, therefore, they intentionally switch off their data connection, thus avoid exchanging emails, multimedia messages, surfing the Internet, chatting, uploading and downloading information. The MTN one world package helps put to rest the minds of travellers like you. With this new tariff, subscribers can browse in nineteen different countries at the same rates with which they browse at home.

While many operators are shying away from resolving the high rates of data roaming charges or coming up with a better alternative, only a few are trying to ensure that their medium and high value customers still have access to the internet through their mobile phones while roaming. One of such telecommunication operator is MTN. This is evident its recent launch of Browse like Home when you Roam with “MTN One World”.

The MTN One World is a new data roaming tariff where MTN prepaid and post-paid subscribers, who travel out of the country, have access to the internet on their mobile phones and send text messages, paying a standard home rate of 5kobo per kilobyte and N4 per SMS, as if they were in Nigeria. This service is available in any of 19 MTN operating countries namely: Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa, Liberia, Cote D’Ivoire, Uganda, Congo, Rwanda, Guinea Conakry, Zambia, Iran, Sudan, Guinea Bissau, Cyprus, Swaziland, Yemen, Afghanistan and Botswana.

Job Vacancy: Graduate Field Service Technician – Cameron Onne, Nigeria

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Are you looking forward to working as a field service technician in Onne, Rivers State? Information reaching us on Sunday has revealed that Cameron is currently hiring in that department. The Job is available to all applicants with minimal qualifications stated below.

Job Summary and qualifications are contained below.

Job Summary

Management and coordination of all wellsite support activities, including equipment preparation, installation and/or workover & maintenance aspects for the Cameron Surface projects in line with Customer and Cameron project expectations and requirements.

Including but not limited to:

  • Supervision and coordination of all Cameron equipment operations involving make-up, preparation, testing, installation and/or recovery.
  • Maintaining a well file system for collection of relevant installation records (equipment part numbers, serial numbers, test records, field service tickets etc).
  • Provision of technical assistance and addressing any operational issues encountered with Cameron supplied equipment on wellsites.
  • Attending customer rig call meetings or pre-spud meetings
  • Provision of training and development of local field service staff.
  • Administration, adherence to, and further development of Cameron management systems, procedures and work practices involved with equipment installation.
  • Compiling field service installation reports.
  • Provide HSE leadership in implementation of Cameron and customer HSE-initiatives. 

Minimum Job Qualifications

  • Degree in Mechanical- / Petroleum- Engineering or similar , 1 -2 years Instrumentation experience
  • High safety awareness and safety focused
  • Good Wellhead product knowledge, incl equipment field service aspects.
  • Proficiency in English language, French and Italian language knowledge desired
  • International experience, able to work in remote locations
  • Customer focused, pro-active and results driven
  • Excellent communication & reporting skills- written and oral

Job Vacancy: Sourcing Category Manager Job stage 6 – Ericsson NG

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Ericsson a popular telecom operator in Nigeria, the world’s leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators and the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies has thrown the door wide open to job seekers who are searching for a secured and reliable job offer.

The Job seeker within Nigeria must meet the requirements stated below to earn a chance to work with Ericsson Nigeria as Sourcing Category Manager Job stage 6.

Job Details

Req ID: 5541

Job Summary

The Sourcing Category Manager shall develop cost effective Ericsson wide category strategies that are based on cross-functional requirements and business needs in both Regions and Business Units. The Category Manager is accountable for supplier business intelligence, benchmarking practice and category market knowledge, establishing a cost effective and competitive market place that optimizes Ericsson’s supplier business. The role is also responsible for the Preferred Supplier List and internal compliance to it. Through requirement alignment and opportunities from Sourcing and stakeholders, sustainable solutions fulfilling stakeholder requirements, policies, laws and regulations shall be secured.

Responsibilities & Tasks:

  • Define and implement cross-functional strategies
  • Define and secure implementation of a preferred supplier list
  • Define and implement applicable category targets
  • Create cost effective and sustainable category business solutions
  • Optimize category team performance
  • Develop the category business model and define best practices
  • Position Qualification

Core Competences

  • Leading and supervising
  • Working with people
  • Relating and networking
  • Persuading and influencing
  • Analyzing
  • Adapting and responding to change
  • Behavioral Competences
  • Commercial Acumen & Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Ericsson portfolio knowledge
  • Facilitate diversity and awareness
  • Financial acumen and skills
  • Fundamental Leadership Competence
  • Knowledge sharing and collaborative skills
  • Leadership through cross functional networks
  • Market insight
  • Presentation skills
  • Team working skills
  • Minimum Qualififcation & Experience Requirements
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience
  • A first academic degree or equivalent qualification
  • Preferred Qualification & Experience Requirements
  • Business understanding
  • Change and Improvement Management Skills
  • Local laws and Regulation knowledge
  • Negotiation and argumentation skills
  • Sourcing practice, process and strategy knowledge

    Note: Primary country and city: Nigeria (NG) || Other/Not Applicable || Lagos || SalesStratMkt&ComMgt

    Job Vacancy: Senior Manager (Postpaid Usage & Retention) – Airtel Nigeria

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    Airtel Nigeria is one of the leading telecommunication services provider in Nigeria. The company first landed in Nigeria on 5 of August, 2001 and has since grown from strength to strength introducing cheap data plans and recently partnering with Google to offer free internet service to its users.

    Last week the multinational telecommunication company announced that one of its vacant position is aching for an urgent replacement. A reliable source has informed EWT that the position of a Senior Manager in Postpaid Usage & Retention department is currently vacant and open for qualified applicants. The details and requirement for application is stated below.

    Job description

    1. Deliver postpaid voice revenues

    • Managing the usage KPIs for the postpaid business.
    • Managing the CR for the postpaid business
    • Driving voice usage for the active customer base

    2. Deliver postpaid REC base

    • Managing the active postpaid subscriber base with the objective of enhancing the customer life on network
    • Managing the various customer age on network buckets so as to minimize flow of customers into the inactive bucket
    • Drive win backs from the inactive base
    • Improve new customer gross additions to revenue earning customer conversions by monitoring and controlling the quality of gross ads
    • Special focus on retention of high value postpaid subscribers

    3. Drive Retention Management

    • Drive segmentation of customer using value segmentation in-order to determine the cost of retention.
    • Develop data based predictive models to identify best prospect target and launch target based offers
    • Manage the various customer age on network buckets to minimize flow of customers into the inactive bucket
    • Improve new customer gross adds to revenue earning customer conversions by controlling the quality of gross adds
    • Track campaign results, analyze data, and assess the effectiveness and profitability of retention campaigns; modify strategies as indicated.

    4. Product Management

    • Develop and launch voice usage enhancing & retention products based on consumer behaviour analytics with a view to:
    • Creating new usage opportunities as well as enhance existing usage behaviour across different consumer segments
    • Minimize REC loss , maximize REC win backs , increase AON of the customer across different consumer segments
    • Effective liaisoning across BI, Finance, IT, Network, CSD, regulatory to launch and track new products.

    5. Drive Customer life time Value management (CLTV)

    • Increase the Life time value (LTV) of customers across segments by upselling products to increase usage and customers age on network.
    • Develop customer journey touch points and process in order to extend retention.
    • Develop customer engagement tools in order to create brand advocates.

    6. Analysis and review

    • Build MIS data systems to enable tracking and review of all key voice usage/REC impacting/driving/ enhancing indicators
    • Periodical review and course correction to correct/ resolve/ leverage opportunities for revenue and REC growth within the postpaid base

    Desired Skills and Experience

    • Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering or Masters in Computer Applications
    • Masters in Business Administration would be preferred additional qualification MBA in Marketing or Postgraduate degree with specialization in Marketing.
    • 10 years of work experience work Experience with at least 6 years of relevant experience in Telecom.
    • Of these at least 4 years should be in telecom postpaid marketing.
    • A minimum of 3 years in Management role with having direct on co. roll reportees.
    • Sound understanding of postpaid billing systems/ products/ revenue planning and management
    • Extensive knowledge of postpaid telecom workflows to ensure effective development of financial and product business cases, review and management of products
    • Understanding and experience in Telecom consumer analytics and how to apply the same in product development

    Job Vacancy: IPTV Solutions Specialist – Prodeco Limited Nigeria

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    How much do you know about IPTV Networking? Time to put your skills in use: Prodeco Limited Nigeria has declared an open door for qualified candidate to occupy the position of IPTV Solutions Specialist in their local firm.

    The Job is only available for qualified candidates within Nigeria. Details of qualifications and requirement are stated below.

    Job description

    This is a hands-on position. The successful candidate will be responsible for our IPTV network operations. This network consists of Set Top Boxes (STBs) at the customer end, and streamers and servers (VPN, VOD, IPTV, EPG, Middle-ware, etc) at the head-end, distributed via a GPON network. This position will provide technical support to internal staff as well as limited customer technical support.

    Duties include:

    • Operations and maintenance of the IPTV Head-end services to ensure quality of service delivery to customers
    • Planning to ensure that resources are available for capacity expansion, spares and new configurations.
    • Meeting and working with vendors to support our IPTV Head-end requirements
    • Testing and implementation of upgrades, channels or system requirements.
    • Support satellite downlinks, IP streams, and terrestrial incoming feeds for the IPTV services.
    • Manage the infrastructure and housekeeping of the IPTV Head-end System.
    • Planning of the recovery and continuity plan/procedure of the IPTV services.
    • Participating in meetings to improve on workflow and operation for the IPTV services.
    • Develop and maintain customer user guides/manuals for current and future IPTV features, such as website functions and account management, STB operation, STB Install, STB Reboot, etc.
    • Develop and maintain documentation on all IPTV equipment inventory, their connectivity to the network, VLAN information, and switch ports information, etc.
    • Develop and maintain up to date topology drawings of IPTV head-end connections, including content sources, Splitters, Streamers, Server, and Access Switches.
    • Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly IPTV Operations reports
    • Communicate with vendors regarding updates/patches and deployment of updates/patches
    • Liaison with Information Systems, Network, and Support teams.
    • Any other duties as required

    Desired Skills and Experience

    • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent, or a minimum of 10 years operational experience
    • Experience in operations and maintenance of IPTV Head-end systems, including both software and hardware
    • Experience in GPON networks preferred, especially with Huawei OLT and ONT.
    • Strong experience with service provider routing and switching protocols and technologies (BGP, OSPF, MPLS/VPLS, VRF/VPN, PIM, STP)
    • Experience with high-end Cisco IOS/IOS-XR routers and switches (6509, 7609, ASR, Nexus) desired
    • Strong experience designing and configuring QoS/CoS for multi-play service provider offerings
    • Ability to work in a 24 x 7 environment and have an operational readiness mindset.
    • Strong experience authoring network specifications and diagrams (MS Word/Visio or equivalent)
    • Experience working with multicast and next-generation Video delivery technologies (IPTV, ABR HLS, Smooth Streaming, etc.)
    • Experience with Web technologies and protocols (HTTP, SSL, HTML, etc.)
    • Experience with tools for stress testing of networks and related equipment
    • Experience with packet/protocol fault analysis for common IP and Ethernet protocols using network traces or sniffer captures
    • Experience configuring and maintaining content delivery systems such as caches, streamers, origin servers, request routing systems, load balancers, log aggregation systems, etc. desired
    • Familiarity with Windows and Linux system administration and related tools
    • Familiarity with programming and/or a working knowledge of scripting languages used in UNIX and Web systems
    • Familiarity with configuring common Internet services and applications (Web, DNS, SFTP, etc.)
    • Strong Microsoft Visio, Word, PowerPoint skills
    • Strong understanding of the Service Provider technical challenges including intimate knowledge of the end-user needs.
    • Strong ability to work in a complex environment, effectively building and sustaining relationships at multiple levels with the customer as well as internally.
    • Proactive, self-motivating with a good grasp of the key business drivers.
    • Fluent in English
    • Strong team and people skills, with both Nigerian and international exposure.

    Airtel Opera Mini Bundle! Enjoy Unlimited Browsing for Only N300/Month

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    Airtel Nigeria has rolled out a cheap data plan for Opera Mini users. The plan will work across all platform and devices including: Android, iOS, Java, Symbian, Windows or any other device as long as you are accessing the internet via Opera Mini browser.

    To start enjoying this plan, dial *885*1# for the monthly plan at N300 ONLY!

    In the past Airtel has partnered with both Facebook and Google to provide free internet access to Nigerians. This data plan is intended to reduce cost of internet in Nigeria which has been incredibly expensive in the past.

    Become a Procurement Director for Oracle in Nigeria

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    The American multinational computer technology cooperation Oracle has announce it’s intention to fill it’s vacant position for a procurement director in the Nigeria sector.

    The vacant is open for all qualified applicant residing within the borders of Nigeria. See below for Job details and requirements.

    Job Responsibilities

    The Director of Procurement is a regional role and includes (but is not limited to) the following responsibilities:

    • Collaborating with the global spend category teams to implement Oracle’s procurement policies and procedures in the African region with a focus on increasing spend under management, cost savings, and risk mitigation
    • Providing leadership and strategic direction across all procurement matters in the African region
    • Negotiating and/or reviewing purchase transactions and associated supplier agreements of varying complexity and for various services to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with Oracle’s guidelines
    • Developing and enforcing corporate policies and monitoring activities to ensure that policy objectives are met
    • Educating internal employees and business partners on corporate policies and procedures
    • Advising internal employees and business partners on the implementation or operation of compliance programs
    • Directing periodic internal reviews or audits to ensure that compliance procedures are followed
    • Identifying emerging risks faced by Oracle entities in the African region and implementing controls to mitigate them
    • Preparing monthly/quarterly risk assessment updates for Corporate Governance Board

    Desired Skills and Experience

    • 10+ years of relevant work experience and a BS/BA degree or equivalent
    • 6+ years of management experience including hiring and managing a professional staff, setting objectives, measuring and improving performance, establishing best practices, developing and enforcing policy, and making key decisions
    • Procurement experience including sourcing, cost/price analysis, contracting, and supplier management
    • Demonstrated track record of managing programs/projects, meeting deadlines, and driving business process improvement and automation
    • Highly cultivated interpersonal skills and a proven ability to build relationships with and influence individuals both up and down the organizational hierarchy
    • Strong leadership skills including ability to lead in a global organization

    Use Facebook Without Paying for Data

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    Hello Nigerians, you can now access Facebook from your device without paying for data: No hidden or extra charges. To start enjoying this feature, kindly visit http://0.facebook.com from your device browser.

    Note: This feature is only available to Airtel users in Nigeria.

    Tecno Exploring Nigeria smartphone market with new Phantom AII

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    Tecno, a China based mobile phone company is looking to strengthen its tentacles within the Nigeria Smartphone market, with the launch of the latest addition Smartphone to its phantom family, the Phantom AIII.

    A report on Vanguardngr has stated that the highly anticipated Smartphone was formally launched to the public at an elaborate ceremony in the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island Lagos.

    Speaking at the launch, Vice President, TECNO GROUP, Mr. Arif Chowdhury stated that the device was designed with a passion to give everybody access to innovation and its affordable for everybody. “It is part of TECNO’s unwavering effort in expanding its offering which can be seen in this superior, innovative phone” he said.

    A Look at Tecno Phantom AIII Smartphone

    The Phantom AIII Smartphone is an upgraded version of the TECNO Phantom A+, it has a sleeker body and a bigger screen than that of its predecessor, it comes with 6.0” captivating HD touch screen, 4.2 android operating system, it has 3.75g network capability, with 1.5 GHz quad core processor.

    The Phantom AIII is equipped with memory capacity of 16 GB room plus 1 GB ram, 13megal pixel rear camera and 8megal pixel front camera. It also has social media application like Facebook, Whatsapp and Palmchat, applications. The Vice president added that he was very glad to announce a new collaboration with BlackBerry, which allows customers to find, preloaded on TECNO devices, the famous and popular BBM™ application.

    He further noted that the Smartphone is the mobile device to watch in the years to come. The prices are coming down and the sales volumes will increase. This is driving mobile internet access, which then opens up a lot of doors for innovation.

    “Studies indicate that most people now access the internet through their mobile phones as opposed to PCs, We will be launching more internet series mobile phones to serve the growing demand of our customers.
    Our research from years back shows that the buyers of TECNO phones are mostly the youth and we have decided to focus on this market of people. These young people want to be unique, they want unique features that allow them to play and chat, and this is exactly what TECNO is giving them through our series of Smartphones that we have launched into the market so far” Arif added

    Also speaking at the launch, the Digital Marketing & Public Relation Manager West Africa, TECNO GROUP, Mr. Boukali Mounir lay emphasizes on the device specifications, stressing that the Phantom AIII is a dual SIM Smartphone beautifully design with an innovative package of 8.4mm slim body.

    Speaking about the Phantom AIII camera, Mounir pointed out that the device has 8.0MP AF front camera, 13.0MP AF back camera with flash 5 high-precision optical lens, the blue glass filter  of 5 layer glass lens that picks up all the details and help the camera to respond to light just like our eyes do. The device also has access to over 1,000,000 applications, he added.

    Mounir also disclosed that the Phantom AIII comes with free monthly 500MB free data for 12 months from the Nigeria innovative network Etisalat
    Mounir also announced that “TECNO is coming not only with the Phantom AIII, but with the TECNO Smart family including different Smartphones created to meet all the customers needs: The M5, the M7, the P5, the A+, The Phantom Pad mini, the Phantom AIII all this family will bring Smart life to Nigerians.”

    Using Airtel N200 Blackberry (240MB) Data Plan on PC and other Devices

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    I know most of you or at least every  EWT reader already knows about the new Airtel N200 (240MB) Blackberry Data Plan which you can use for 3 days. But I believe so many of you have not considered the possibilities of using this data plan on devices other than Blackberry Phones of which it was originally made for.

    Indeed, the Airtel N200 (240MB) Blackberry Package can be used on other devices such as: iPad, iPhone, Android phone, PC and your regular mobile devices.

    What is it?

    The Airtel N200 (240MB) Blackberry Package offers you 240MB which you must exhaust within 3days of subscription. For a Blackberry and mobile user, this is indeed an “Unlimited Plan” but on PCs and some tablets, it’s quite a different story – probably a solution, if you need to check your email and have a nice chat on Facebook for 3days. Follow the steps below to get started.

    Activation Codes

    To subscribe to this plan, simply dial: *141*1*2*3*1*3# . You will receive a USSD confirming that your data subscription was successful, simply close the interface and check the next step! Note: you must a have at least N200 airtime balance, for this subscription to be successful.

    Codes for other 2+1 Packages includes:

    – 3 Months 2+1 Data Plan (N3, 000) : *141*1*2*3*1*1#
    – 3 Weeks 2+1 Data Plan (N1, 050) : *141*1*2*3*1*2#
    – 3 Days 2+1 Data Plan (N200) : *141*1*2*3*1*3#

    On PC and other Devices

    Cool off, relax and recharge N100 🙂 The Airtel N200 (240MB) Blackberry Package will work on any device as long as you have at least N0.98 on your account balance. Click here for Airtel 2GB Blackberry Data Plan on PC &  other Devices.

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