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TECH & AI Reza Rahnama

TECH & AI Reza Rahnama

TITLE : MD MOBILE NETWORKS COMPANY : BT GROUP INDUSTRY : TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOCATION : LONDON , UK
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IMAGE : FAIRPHONE
Rahnama has worked in the mobile industry for 24 years . He joined Vodafone in 2010 for deployment of IMS & LTE services and successfully delivered a LTE 4G network e2e . He then moved to BT in 2014 as LTE architect and since has had a number of responsibilities building and developing new networks in mobile and voice domain . upcoming legislation on repairability and eco-friendly design as well as , I hope , an increasing awareness and change in mentality , both on the side of consumers and of manufacturers .”
Mobile operators look forward to 2040 But what good will a mobile phone of the future be without adequate cellular providers ?
“ Operators in 2040 are likely to be lean , highly automated , logically – and in some cases physically – more separated than they have been into different businesses ,” Reza Rahnama , MD of Mobile

“ Network operators will become enablers of putting the technology in the hands of people and things ”

REZA RAHNAMA MD MOBILE NETWORKS ,
BT GROUP
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