On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:32:38 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> No, BT made the "interesting" decision of deliberately selling off it's
> mobile operations. (Probably because they were losing money hand over
> fist, like the rest of BT always has...)
> 
> My mum's knowledge is basically
> 
> - How BT does business.
> - How to install wired analogue telephone systems. - How to perform
> diagnostics on wired analogue telephone systems.
> 
> I'm not sure how much of that would be relevant to mobile phone network
> technology. I'm also not sure how many staff the mobile operators
> actually employ in the first place, for that matter...

At some point, the wireless network interfaces with the wired network, 
that would be the point her skills become useful to the mobile operators.

But even more significantly, wired analogue telephone systems are popular 
in business as PBX systems (Public Branch Exchange), and her skills would 
very well transfer directly into that line of work.

My wife's grandfather worked for the local telco in Pennsylvania (PA 
Bell, I think it was called when he worked there), and the couple of 
times I got to meet with him before he died, I had very interesting 
conversations with him about telco work and networking - he had a lot of 
knowledge that I considered very relevant in today's telecommunications 
business - and he had been retired for 20 or 30 years.

Jim

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