Huawei Makes Big Steps with Cox Communications Deal

Source: CNET

As the U.S. economy sinks deeper into a recession, service providers will most likely be looking for bargains when they purchase new wireless network equipment. That bodes well for Huawei.

And CNET writer Marguerite Reardon asks, Will Huawei finally make it big in America?

Cox Communications Embraces Wireless (again)

Todd Spangler (MultiChannel News) reports today that Cox Communications is going to give the wireless market another crack, teaming up with Sprint to get in the market "quickly."

Cox, however, will continue building their own 3G wireless network in hopes of a 2009 launch date.

Cox has spent a lot of money on spectrum ($500m), so it's no surprise they are going to continue down the wireless path. They're banking on the fact that their customers, 6.2 million strong, will
include wireless as part of the multi-service experience with Cox (64% already subscribe to multiple services).

Are Cox customers so "in love" with the Cox experience that they are willing to swap their current wireless provider for a bigger communications bundle?

We shall see.

Project Manager - Wireless Applications, Cox Communications

Location: Alpharetta, GA
Contact: Trevor Harding (trevor.harding@cox.com)

The Project Manager will work with New Product Development, Marketing, Customer Care and the IT teams to create and implement new products/product enhancements including support of the same. The PM will coordinate efforts between development, infrastructure engineering and operations teams to assess the impact of products and/or enhancements, and changes required to enable these products/enhancements. The PM will create, implement, monitor and close out project plans including budget creation and tracking.

The candidate will have a strong analytical and technical background in the field of software development and have demonstrated capability of understanding and implementing new technologies in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment coupled with the ability to manage multiple deliverables.

The candidate will work closely and interact directly with technical staff to identify, rationalize and document business requirement and translate them into functional specifications which detail the approach to address and resolve the business needs. Preferred candidates will have hands-on experience in successful production launches of internal and external customer facing wireless applications and be a subject matter expert in various components of wireless technology such as WAP, J2ME, SMS etc.

This is a high profile position requiring the individual to interact with business sponsors and stakeholders as well as facilitate meetings and presentations. This position requires a high level of professionalism and an excellent subjective presence.

Qualifications:

Must have outstanding interpersonal skills, as this position will interact with business sponsors frequently facilitating meetings/presentations.

5+ years experience in the telecommunications industry, preferably with one of the big four wireless carriers in the US.

Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills with a focus on documentation (business use case and functional requirement documents).

Experience with documenting integration needs between internal applications.

Wireless and wireless web applications project development experience.

MUST have experience in FULL project lifecycle ¿ From Discovery to Implementation with focus on the early stages.

Demonstrate knowledge of company functioning and departmental relationships.

Create, implement, monitor and close out project plans including budgeting.

Assign and coordinate work of cross-functional team members to accomplish project goals.

Act as a liaison with various inter and intra department constituents.

Manage projects > $1 million or 1 year in duration.

5-7 years of experience managing technical projects and business analysis in a software development shop.

4 year college degree required.

Wireless Database Administrator - Cox Communications

Job Title: Wireless Database Administrator
Company: Cox Communications
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Contact: Trevor.Harding@cox.com (404.269.0874)

SUMMARY OF POSITION:
This position is a hand’s on senior DBA responsible for support of architecture, development and test efforts to meet project requirements. The ideal candidate will haven an expert level understanding of ORACLE RAC environments and associated skills necessary to develop, deliver and support Oracle 9I and 10G RAC implementations.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design of relational database models for J2EE and J2ME applications.
- Data warehouse modeling and implementation.
- Participate in standards bodies.

QUALIFICATIONS:
- Seven to ten years with Oracle database design and tuning
- Seven to ten years experience with shell scripting
- Seven to ten years experience with PLSQL
- Seven to ten years experience in data modeling
- Ability to define and articulate style standards
- Work independently with development teams on multiple inter-related projects
- Five to seven years experience working in Unix environments, preferably Solaris
- Excellent communication and peoples skills required
- Masters degree or combination of undergraduate degree and equivalent work experience required