Costas Tsalikidis was born on July 23, 1966 and died on the 9th of March 2005 at the age of 39. He worked for Vodafone Greece for almost 11 years, beginning as Switching Planning and Technology Manager. From 2001 till his untimely death, he was responsible for all planning activities for the GSM, GPRS and UMTS Vodafone Panafon Core Network (Design, Architecture, Dimensioning, Ordering, Rollout, Interconnect, Optimisation). He was also responsible for all technology issues of the Core Network (GSM, GPRS functionalities implementation and Roadmap), and liaison with Vodafone Global regarding Vodafone Networks Evolution roadmaps.

Mr. Tsalikidis received his Bachelor’s degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His specialization was in Telecommunications and dissertation topic on “Air Interface Measurements Collection for Mobile Telephony Systems.” He has attended seminars at the Athens University, on Management and Business Administration, technical seminars on Telecommunications, GSM Systems, Data Networks, Transport Techniques, and a number of Skills Development seminars on Team Work, Team Building, Communication Skills, Project Management and Negotiation capabilities.

As a person he was a warm, giving, honest and sharing human being. He was in an 8-year relationship to Sarra and planning to get married in June – three months after he died. They were a cheerful couple who loved travelling in their spare time all over Greece and abroad.
Some of Costas’ hobbies were to collect vintage rock records from the 60’s and 70’s and children’s toys from the same epoch.

As a professional, he was extremely responsible and conscientious, and according to his senior colleagues he really loved his job.