Hendrik Vorster

• Responsibility for ALL Product & Service Development within MTN Irancell • Responsibility for Strategy, Capacity Planning, Design, Development, Co-Ordination and Implementation of Prepaid / Postpaid, Business Interfacing, Intelligent Networks, Banking, Value Added Services, Management and Information Systems for MTN Irancell. • Full Operational Responsibility of Billing, Charging, Customer Management, VAS, Provisioning, and Mediation Networks in conjunction with Managed Services from 3rd Parties Partners. • Full Responsibility for Project Management and Project Co-Ordination across entire ITS portfolio, including Enterprise Services, Billing, Charging, Mediation, Provisioning, and Value Added Services. • Responsible for the Capital Expenditure within the ITS department. Highlights: • Implementation of a full Single Managed Vendor outsourced agreement with Huawei under extremely tight deadlines. • Complete VAS migration from Nokia to Huawei without any service interruption. This included SMSC, MMSC, GPRS • Establishment of a Service Delivery Lifecycle Process within the business to govern all demand management. • Management of managed service contracts within operational environment.

Head of Planning • Full Planning control for the entire Radio, Core, Transmission & IP / MPLS Networks. • Network Optimization and Quality of Service. • Main interface to Business (Marketing) to ensure sufficient capacity. Highlights: • Planning & Implementation of 1,500km Fibre Backbone Network. • Implementation of a trial 3G network within 3 months. • Significant improvement in Network Quality due to implementation of measurement based network optimization. • Ensuring excellent quality during the Africa Cup of Nations Pan-African Soccer tournament.

• Responsible for the rollout of a self-provided transmission & IP / MPLS network. Including the design, architecture, capacity planning and procurement. • Full responsibility for the management of Capital expenditure in excess of $100million. • Business Case Development, Board Presentation & Approval for Fibre Projects. Highlights: • Rollout of 6,000km high capacity microwave backbone • Planning & Implementation of 3,500km DWDM Fibre Backbone across entire country within 18 months. Main capacity was 10Gbit/Ethernet. • Significant improvements in Network Quality & Availability • Due diligence of local ISP & eventual purchase and integration of company. • Participated in due diligence that led to successful purchase of Operator in another country • Establishment of a Microwave, Topology & IP/MPLS planning teams

Senior Manager: Transmission / IP Planning • Responsible for entire transmission & IP/MPLS network for MTN South Africa. • This included the full network design / architecture as well as capacity planning & forecasting. • Ensuring 2 year strategic roadmaps are development in conjunction with other planning areas. • Full Accountability & responsibility of capital expenditure. Highlights: • Participating in various due diligences for the purchase of ISP networks. • Business Case development and Board Approval for IP / MPLS network. • Establishment of the first major Service Level Agreement with the incumbent Fixed Line Telecom Operator to govern the supply, installation & operational availability of all leased lines. • Design of Core Switching centres and recommendation for the establishment of new switching centres.

Responsible for National Transmission Planning (SDH)