Lundberg’s Law of LinkedIn Laziness

August 26th, 2010

It has happened many times over the last couple years:  a friend or colleague who has previously been totally inactive on LinkedIn suddenly starts connecting and posting and generally making up for lost time.  Many times this indicates a change of employment is imminent or has recently passed.

I’ve not read of this phenomenon elsewhere, though I won’t be surprised if someone else has already identified it.  Until prior art is revealed, I’ll call it Lundberg’s Law of LinkedIn Laziness.  With Luck it might enter the vernacular.

What it says to the rest of us is this: don’t lazily ignore your network and wait until you need it to feed it.  Connecting with colleagues, coworkers and acquaintances should part of your daily routine. Chat up old colleagues, reconnect with past associates, check in occasionally with industry groups.  Stay active.  Stay visible.  Stay relevant.

If you are continually active, you’ll have a much healthier network at at time when that will be important to you, and you won’t implicitly advertise that you’ve had a sudden career change thrust upon you.

If you ignore your professional network, it won’t serve you well when you most need it.

NTC Member Predicts 3G Service in Thailand by Year End

February 25th, 2010

David Phillips of Kordia Thailand called our attention to this article in the Bangkok Post which advocates the optimistic view that now that the 4 new members of Thailand’s National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) had been royally endorsed 3G services should expect to be launched before the end if the year. Read the rest of this entry »

CAT adding MiFi hotspot Product

February 13th, 2010

Over at TeleGeography Comms Update they report that CAT will begin selling the Novatel Wireless MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot device for subscribers on their Rev. Ev-DO network. I wish them the best of luck with it. In our own Rev A network we’ve seen utilization skyrocket with devices such as this. Granted, our business model is “flat-rate, all you can eat”, meaning our subscribers pay one monthly amount and can then use as much data as they want. Read the rest of this entry »

Programme Manager and Senior Operations Engineer with expertise in Telecommunications software needed in Bangkok Thailand

October 20th, 2009

Wendy Cheong of Berkley Recruitment Group (Asia) has posted to LinkedIn a couple of job openings for Telecoms in Bangkok. The postings are in the Telecoms Executives Business Network group. You must join the group to see the jobs postings and other discussions.

Please email wcheong@berkley.com.sg for more details. Click The Berkley Recruitment Group to visit their website. Berkley Recruitment Group is based in Singapore.

Sawasdee Krup from Thai Telecoms

October 4th, 2009

Greetings from Thai Telecoms. We are Telecoms professionals with an interest in the Thai market. Our intent is to survey, monitor and comment on telecommunications in Thailand, especially mobile telecoms. The upcoming spectrum auctions should be especially interesting.

We’ve only just completed the process of registering the domain and put up the web server, so please bear with us as we get started.

If you’d like to contribute an article we’d be happy to post it. Of course, the right to edit and even reject articles will be reserved. Thanks for understanding.

Now please join the adventure.

-Russell