UCC boss fronted for global job at ITU
Nov 11, 2005
Uganda has fronted the chief executive officer of the communication commission, Eng Patrick Masambu, for the post of director of the Telecom Development Bureau at the the International Telecommunications Union headquarters.
By Davis Weddi
Uganda has fronted the chief executive officer of the communication commission, Eng Patrick Masambu, for the post of director of the Telecom Development Bureau at the the International Telecommunications Union headquarters.
Uganda Communications Commission revealed this on on Wednesday, saying the Government was fully behind Masambu as the most suitable and experienced person for the job.
Patrick Mwesigwa, the UCC technical chief, said Masambu was out of the country on a campaign strategy expected to bring honour and developmental benefits to the nation if he wins the job.
By Wednesday, members of the Uganda delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society were being briefed about among other issues to fully support and campaign for Masambu, who is a well-known eloquent orator in topical issues on telecoms and regulation of the sector.
Masambu who joined UCC in 2000 has been in the telecoms industry for the last 30 years during which he established a record of expertise.
at senior levels in
Prior to that, between 1998 and 1999 he was instrumental in achieving successful privatization of Uganda Telecoms.
His Curriculum Vitae reads that he has been in the Telecoms industry for the last 30 years during which he established a track record of expertise at senior levels in Engineering, Management, Policy development and regulation at both national and international levels.
He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Nairobi, Kenya in 1974 and joined the East African External Telecommunications company, working in Satellite communications and switching for three years. He holds a Bsc (Engineering), and MBA degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Telecom systems Management.
In 1977 he returned to Uganda to form the core team that established the Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.
Between 1980 and 1994 he served increasingly in senior levels up to the position of Deputy Managing Director in charge operations, maintenance, planning and development in satellite communications, switching, transmission and Access Networks.
Masambu also represented Uganda at various telecommunications related international fora including those convened by the ITU, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (where he is Vice Chair to the board), the World Bank the African Development Bank and regionally in Africa.
He has chaired two major committees of the World Telecommunications Standardisation Assembly and is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida.
He is Uganda’s Permanent representative to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Council CTC and he is Uganda representative to the ITU council.
Since 1994, Masambu is credited for helping Uganda develop its Telecommunications Policy and to steer reform and restructuring process of the telecom/communications sector culminating in the opening up the sector to competition in 1998 as well as establishing new communications institutions including the UCC.
Masambu, who is known for being bold, is known for being instrumental in establishing the East African regulators and Postal and Telecommunications Organisation which he currently chairs while at the same time being at the helm of Association for ICT regulators in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Uganda has fronted the chief executive officer of the communication commission, Eng Patrick Masambu, for the post of director of the Telecom Development Bureau at the the International Telecommunications Union headquarters.
Uganda Communications Commission revealed this on on Wednesday, saying the Government was fully behind Masambu as the most suitable and experienced person for the job.
Patrick Mwesigwa, the UCC technical chief, said Masambu was out of the country on a campaign strategy expected to bring honour and developmental benefits to the nation if he wins the job.
By Wednesday, members of the Uganda delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society were being briefed about among other issues to fully support and campaign for Masambu, who is a well-known eloquent orator in topical issues on telecoms and regulation of the sector.
Masambu who joined UCC in 2000 has been in the telecoms industry for the last 30 years during which he established a record of expertise.
at senior levels in
Prior to that, between 1998 and 1999 he was instrumental in achieving successful privatization of Uganda Telecoms.
His Curriculum Vitae reads that he has been in the Telecoms industry for the last 30 years during which he established a track record of expertise at senior levels in Engineering, Management, Policy development and regulation at both national and international levels.
He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Nairobi, Kenya in 1974 and joined the East African External Telecommunications company, working in Satellite communications and switching for three years. He holds a Bsc (Engineering), and MBA degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Telecom systems Management.
In 1977 he returned to Uganda to form the core team that established the Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.
Between 1980 and 1994 he served increasingly in senior levels up to the position of Deputy Managing Director in charge operations, maintenance, planning and development in satellite communications, switching, transmission and Access Networks.
Masambu also represented Uganda at various telecommunications related international fora including those convened by the ITU, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (where he is Vice Chair to the board), the World Bank the African Development Bank and regionally in Africa.
He has chaired two major committees of the World Telecommunications Standardisation Assembly and is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida.
He is Uganda’s Permanent representative to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Council CTC and he is Uganda representative to the ITU council.
Since 1994, Masambu is credited for helping Uganda develop its Telecommunications Policy and to steer reform and restructuring process of the telecom/communications sector culminating in the opening up the sector to competition in 1998 as well as establishing new communications institutions including the UCC.
Masambu, who is known for being bold, is known for being instrumental in establishing the East African regulators and Postal and Telecommunications Organisation which he currently chairs while at the same time being at the helm of Association for ICT regulators in Eastern and Southern Africa.