Well, I said I'd let you know how it went: interview great, job offer received, at least verbally, and... after much doubting and deliberating I turned it down! As Groucho Marx might say, I'd never accept a job offer from a company that's crazy enough to employ someone like me.Erik wrote:Cheers for this response by the way. Now I'm really confused!clv101 wrote:Unsustainable cross subsidies between business units, the shift from being a hi-tech "luxury" product to a commodity, the technology shift away from the circuit switched networks (including 3G) where billions have been invested to packet switched networks, the fact that most traffic and therefore revenue potential occurs in a tiny fraction of land area and never more than a few 10s of meters from a fixed, high bandwidth, low latency connection, the rapidly falling revenue per bit in the face of fixed backhaul cost per bit... The existing architecture of the traditional telco just isn't what's needed.
Evidence can be seen from the equipment suppliers. Last year Nokia and Siemens merged into one, Alcatel and Lucent merged, Nortel sold off their 3G infrastructure business
I'll let you know how it goes.
But seriously, in the end it all looked a bit too er "dynamic" to me, I would probably have ended up working more hours anyway (eliminating some of the benefits of working more locally), and also to move away from the energy sector over to telecoms, which I have no idea about and much less interest in, well it just seemed a little too risky. I guess I'll have to keep commuting for a while until I can think of something else!
Thanks for the info/advice anyway.
