CC is organising its next digital branded CC-Webinar.Live Panel Discussion and Knowledge Sharing Session sponsored and hosted by Telefónica International Wholesale Services, taking place on 24th September 2020. During this session Telefónica will give a 15 minute keynote presentation and join the panel discussion session addressing industry topic: Telco Mobile Roaming Industry in the Digital Era and how COVID-19 is reshaping the industry.
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An expert in wholesale voice and SMS messaging with over 20 years’ experience in the telecom industry as former VP of Sales & Carrier Relations at tyntec, one of the largest A2P SMS service providers globally and as Regional Manager at Verizon where he headed up a team responsible for international voice services in Europe. José also previously managed operator relations in Central and Southern Europe for Netsize, a Gemalto company. José holds a degree in business administration from the Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M.
Specialties:
Launch SMS services / Shift from Voice to Messaging / A2P SMS Monetization / MNO revenue assurance / SMS platforms / P2P SMS Cost optimization / Training Sales and Carrier Relations / Wholesale Voice / VoIP / Integration of Operators, Carriers, Aggregators into value chain of OTT services / Off-net connectivity for OTT services.
Jose Antonio leads a team of Product Managers developing the Voice, UCC, Roaming and IoT services. Previously, he has been leading TIWS SD-WAN value proposition for MNC and wholesale customers.
Jose joined Telefonica in 2009, having previously worked for BT Global Services and Lucent Technologies, where he gained broad experience across a number of business areas, including Bid Management, Presales and Specialist Sales. Jose Antonio holds an Executive Development Program certificate from IESE Business School and a degree in Physics.
Nabil Baccouche is currently Etisalat Group Vice President International Roaming & Mobile Services.
Nabil joined Etisalat Carrier & Wholesale Services in 2014 from Syniverse where he served as Vice President & Managing Director Middle East & Africa from the Syniverse MEA Headquarters in Dubai.
Before Syniverse, Nabil held executive-level positions at Emirates International Telecommunications, a Dubai Holding company with an assignment at Tunisie Telecom and Belgacom ICS where he established the company’s Dubai regional office.
Arne is with MTN GlobalConnect Dubai since July 2018 as the General Manager for International Roaming overseeing the entire roaming business for the MTN mobile operating companies in Africa and Middle East. MTN Globalconnect is the MTN Group Wholesale arm for Roaming, Voice, Messaging & VAS and Fixed Connectivity. Arne has been instrumental to setup the verticalisation of roaming in the MTN Group by migrating the local MTN roaming teams and services to one centralised Roaming Signalling and VAS hub under the umbrella of GlobalConnect.
Arne has over 18 years of experience in the Roaming Industry with roles held at Roaming solutions vendors and large Group Operators such as Vodafone group, Digicel CALA Group, Mobileum and Ericsson EMEA.
Nadir Patel has 20+ years of experience in the wholesale telecom industry. Having worked in different countries from UAE, India, Nigeria and Oman, he has learned and gained good insights in the wholesale business.
From working in leading telco in the GCC to two green field projects, Nadir’s experience have enriched him both professionally and personally. His expertise is mainly in the Mobility products i.e. voice, roaming, messaging and mobile services with sound understanding of the wholesale data business. Nadir believes in simple living and high thinking
Jakob Sjöberg is the founder of Bosbec. Bosbec has during the past 6 years developed a cloud based low code platform. Jakob has experience from including Telco services in the low code platform where non-IT developers can create bespoken solutions.
Currently he mainly works with sales and growth on new markets.
Jakob has a Master degree from University of Gothenburg and from Chalmers School of Technology.