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Who remembers rotary phones and push button phones that were connected to land lines? Now we all rely on cell phones and telecommunications companies have evolved to provide way more services than just phone calls. In addition to wired and mobile telephone services, many telecoms now provide television services, wireless internet, homes security, and more! The telecommunications sector has seen phenomenal changes over the last thirty years.
In this episode we sit down with Blair Laforge to hear about his career in the telecommunications sector. Blair has a background in Electronic Systems engineering and is a Senior Project Manager at SaskTel. In this conversation he talks about some of the changes he has seen during his twenty-five years in the industry, and he highlights some cool projects he worked on related to voice services. Blair also offers some advice for young people who are thinking about studying engineering.