An Interview with Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar

5G Trainer and Consultant/Entrepreneur at Learnizo Global

Key Topics:5G , Packet Core , EPC, Open RAN

Location:Jaipur, India

Bio:

Sanjay Kumar is a distinguished Entrepreneur and Senior Telecom & Cloud (AWS) Training Professional with 20+ years of experience in Telecom Training, Operations & Maintenance, Projects, and Training Content Development, Telecom R&D and testing etc.

He is also an AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate and AWS Authorized Instructor (AAI).

He has working experience with global & regional leadership roles driving business development, client engagement, corporate strategy, and commercial management across multiple domains of Telecom and Cloud.

He has trained 20K+ people in more than 50 countries on 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, Packet Core and Cloud technologies in companies like Nokia, Ericsson, Vodafone, Airtel, Cisco, Samsung, Jio, Wipro, Accenture, Etisalat, T-Mobile, Wataniya, Ooredoo, Tech M to name a few.

He is presently working for a Telecom Knowledge management company named as Learnizo Global (www.LearnizoGlobal.com ).

How did you get to become an expert in your key topics?

I come with almost 20 years of experience in the Telecom Industry. Having worked with Operators, OEM’s and other Telecom Companies helped me to build this expertise.

Back in 2007, I started working as a Telecom Trainer for a company in Finland and have trained people in more than 50 countries. It was a great learning experience and an eye opener for me about what technology has to offer. I left that company in 2011 to start my own training company and now I am the founder of two companies in the Telecom/5G Knowledge management space named Learnizo Global and Nanocell Networks and we support all major Telecom and IT companies to manage technical competencies around Telecom, 5G and Cloud.

What sub-topics are you most passionate about?

Who influences you on these topics?

It will not be easy to name one. 3GPP website is a major source of information but delivering training is something that helps us a lot in learning new things. I will give credit to my students for all my learning. When I started as a trainer, I could barely speak English as I come from a very small village in India, and nobody speaks even Hindi at our home. Mostly we speak in some regional languages. But I kept on learning from the mistakes I made, and this helped me grow in this.

What challenges are brands facing in this space?

There is a paradigm shift in Telecom Industry and 5G has brought lot of challenges in managing competencies.

Telecom is moving from Propriety Networks in 4G to open and Cloud based Networks in 5G so there is a big transformation which is happening around the world.

There is a huge scarcity of skilled resources and companies are struggling with hiring and retaining the talent.

Almost all the companies are struggling for skilled resources and the only way out is to build those skills by training people and making learning a necessity for everyone in the organization.

What do you think the future holds in this space?

5G looks very promising at least for next 5 years and going to change the way the Telecom Networks were imagined in the past.

Lot of new networks Deployments, Service Oriented Networks, More Private Networks, New competitors, Hyperscalers (AWS, Google, Azure) getting into the play, Cloud based Radio and Core Networks, Open RAN and intervention of AI/ML in Telecom, some of these things are going to be game changer in the future.

What brands are leading the way in this space?

Operators were mostly regional companies in Telecom always so will not be easy to name any of them.

At OEM level, it was mostly Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, Samsung which were leading the race. However, 5G has completely changed the game.

Operators like Rakuten (Japan) and JIO (India) are building their own 5G tech and selling it to other operators. System Integrators are also building their own products. Hyperscalers like Google and AWS are also aggressive in this space.

Some operators like Dish Wireless in US are setting up new trend by building their networks on public Cloud like AWS Overall tough to say, who is leading but it is really getting very interesting for sure.

If a brand wanted to work with you, which activities would you be most interested in collaborating on?

We, as a company, helps companies to build the Telecom and Cloud competencies by providing customized tailor-made courses suiting the need of their teams. We create technical content for them, we can deliver ILT or VILT sessions for them and help them to analyze skills gaps, and suggest how to fill those gaps.

What are your passions outside of work?

Travelling was one of the hobbies before Covid. I used to travel a lot for official stuff but always create an opportunity to explore the places even on a business trip. In addition to that, I love listening to poetry. I don’t write much, but yes given an opportunity; I love to recite poems of others.

What would be the best way for a brand to contact you?

I am pretty active on Linkedin or on WhatsApp (00919871014894).

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