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24-26 June 2013
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Safdar Imam

Senior Specialist – Costing Department – Strategic  Finance
Omantel

Safdar Imam is a Telco-finance veteran with almost 30 years of experience in the industry. Currently serving as Senior Costing Specialist in the Omantel Group (www.omantel.om ), he is responsible for Fixed and Mobile cost models and Regulatory/Management accounting and reporting. Omantel is a multinational telecoms operator who is an incumbent in the Sultanate of Oman and new entrant operator in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. As a key member of the Strategic Finance team of Omantel, he deals with the network models, regulatory and management reports, FDC and LRIC models for interconnection and retail products of two operational licenses of the Group, i.e., Fixed PSTN business and Mobile. His expertise in modelling regulatory cost, tariff & interconnect terms and accounting separation has been involved in evaluating technology choices, regulatory consultations, business initiatives and pricing. Recently, he has been involved in TRA Oman’s consultative processes on Accounting Separation, Access Deficit, Interconnect Rates, Broadband Wireless Access, WiFi hotspots and USO on behalf of Omantel.

His career started with Pakistan Telecoms (www.ptcl.com.pk) in 1980. During 1980-2005 he held accounting and financial responsibilities in Network Development, Public-Private Partnership, Strategic Business Planning (SBP) and Business Development. As Director Accounts (SBP & BD), besides developing strategic business plans for PTCL (Fixed), Ufone (Mobile subsidiary of Pakistan Telecoms) and Paknet (ISP subsidiary of Pakistan Telecoms), he assisted in regulatory Tariff Rebalancing. As a member of the Task Force for Cost Unbundling, he remained involved in FDC/ LRIC modelling, finalization of PTCL Reference Interconnection Offer and Regulatory Guidelines on Accounting Separation/ Costing Methodologies for Fixed and Mobile operators in Pakistan. Later (2005-07), he worked for a fixed-line new entrant of Pakistan and developed financial models for Long Distance & International (LDI), WiMAX, Wireless Local Loop (WLL), EVDO roll-out plans. He joined Omantel in 2008 and continues to serve the biggest Omani Telco as senior costing expert since then.
He is a visiting lecturer at Telecoms Staff College PTCL, Institute of Communication Technologies (PTCL Academy), Islamabad (www.ictech.edu.pk) International Islamic University Islamabad (www.iiu.edu.pk). He has been teaching financial management, basic accounting and telecoms & technologies regulation to PTCL Engineers and students of MS (Telecom Technologies and Engg. Management), MBA (Telecoms), BBA (IT) and MBA (IT). He has also supervised several projects of the graduating students on telecoms technologies, businesses and regulatory subject.


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