Christian Daigneault is the Chief Technology Officer of CSL Limited since
July 2007. In these two years with CSL, Christian has orchestrated a full
network transformation and brought the first All IP HSPA+ 21 Mbps network in the
world. Christian came to CSL with a strong telecommunications background with
more than 20 years experience in the wireless mobile industry.
He started his career with Bell Mobility Cellular in Canada, where he was
responsible for radio network planning and strategies. At Bell Mobility, he
pioneered several radio network configurations from omnidirectional to 3 and 6
sectors configurations, to increase capacity and to meet the fast growing
traffic.
He later joined Canadian operator Telesystem International Wireless (TIW),
developing wireless networks in Europe, Asia and South America. During that
period, Christian successfully launched a TDMA network in Brazil for Claro
Digital, was instrumental in deploying the first foreign joint venture GSM
network in China with China Unicom in Hunan Province, and was responsible
development of the Dolphin Tetra network in the United Kingdom, Germany and
France.
More recently, Christian was the Director of RF Engineering and Operations at
Telus Mobility in Canada, where he was successful in improving network quality
from unsatisfactory performance to best in class. Prior to joining CSL,
Christian was Deputy CTO for Wataniya Telecom in Algeria.
Christian holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Degree from the
University of Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada) and he is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology.