Pal Olsson joins ECT as Operations Director

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 20, 2004 -- Munich, 20th August 2004 � The European Computer Telecoms Group (ECT) has appointed Pal Olsson as Operations Director with responsibility for the network implementation and maintenance services provided at the ECT Sales and Service Centres throughout Europe. Olsson has extensive experience in the design of telecommunications networks, capacity planning, network implementation and quality control. He reports directly to and is the deputy of the ECT Group�s Chief Operations Officer Josef H�ttinger.

Previous to his new position at ECT, Olsson spent over three years at the Tele2 Group, Europe�s leading alternative provider for fixed-line and mobile telephony and one of ECT�s most important customers. He planned and managed the implementation of Tele2�s fixed-line telephony networks in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland. In the mobile arena, he has been Tele2�s technical representative in the Mobile LRIC Workgroup which included all GSM Telecom operators in Sweden and reported to the local regulatory authority. His last project at Tele2 was the new ring back tone service realized with ECT technology.

�In the last six months, ECT has been awarded numerous tenders by major European carriers, e.g. for Ring Back Tone Service, Intelligent Networks, Number Portability, Prepaid GSM and Service Number Solutions. It�s thus only natural that we are further developing our engineering organization accordingly, doubling the number of service engineers in the field. Such major growth, of course, requires an additional management layer, and I am thus absolutely delighted to have won such a highly professional and experienced engineer as my second in command,� said Josef H�ttinger, Chief Operating Officer of ECT.



Olsson is based at ECT�s headquarters in Munich and will develop and implement network and service concepts for ECT customers throughout Europe as well as oversee their implementation. He will also serve as an interface between the local ECT engineering teams in each country and ECT Headquarters in Munich.

�I am excited to join one of Europe�s most successful and innovative telecoms companies. I am looking forward to new challenges and to further enhance the excellent relationship between our service centres and our valued customers all over Europe,� said Olsson.