Karlskrona

Last week I spent three days in Telenor Sweden’s office in Karlskrona working with the SOX team. The office in Karlskrona houses the operations for the mobile networks. Karlskrona was built as a naval base and so in the old days, part of the office was once used for this purpose.

Learning business and more in Karlskrona

At first, I thought that my work in Karlskrona will teach me about the business and operational risks and controls on financial figures. But after meeting the colleagues in Karlskrona for my SOX assignment, I learned more than just that. I saw the entire mobile business in just two days – from how mobile calls and data traffic were made and measured, given a price to finally being invoiced to the customer. Some colleagues also kindly invited me on a tour around the office to show me the different departments and their functions. I also visited the operations centre where I learned the locations of basestations around Sweden and how to read what was going on in them. Everyone has an important role to keep the mobile telephony business going.

I absolutely loved working in Karlskrona and was very happy meet the colleagues there. I also met some new friends in Karlskrona who are working in the Stockholm office whom I have never met before - strange coincidence? We had dinner together and went back to one of our rooms to watch the football match- Turkey and Switzerland were playing against each other that night

Summer party in Stocholm

After my last day, I went back to Stockholm and prepared a report of my work in Karlskrona and after that, went off straight to the Telenor Sweden’s Summer Party at Nacka where Charlotte Perrelli (winner of the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year’s Eurovision Song Contest and also the 2008 Melodifestivalen) gave us a surprise performance