György Oprics

After graduating from university, he began his engineering career at the Sub-Central Plant of the Budapest Telecommunication Directorate.
He worked at the Hungarian Post Experimental Institute (PKI) from 1973. In 1990, he headed the chief engineering department of telecommunications services and networks at PKI Communications Research and Development Ltd.
From 1991, he managed the work of the service and system development department in the strategic sector of the General Directorate of MATÁV (Hungarian Telecommunications Company).
From 1993, he became deputy director of the strategic sector of the PKI Telecommunications Development Institute.

Over the years, his professional activities have expanded to the areas of telecommunications. He played a leading role in the computer-aided design and optimization of telecommunications networks, and in the development of the national traffic measurement strategy that underpinned this.
He played a decisive role in the network developments implemented between 1991-93, in the preparation of the scientifically based plan for the digitalization of the network. Based on this plan, the European-standard digital backbone network was implemented, and the intensive installation of digital telephone exchanges began, which created the foundations for the rapid boom of domestic telecommunications and the introduction of numerous new services. He managed the technical cooperation issues of GSM networks and the public telephone network, as well as the adaptation of new network elements to existing devices and equipment. He coordinated the development of technical development strategies and the construction of pilot and reference networks for new technologies.
Under his leadership, new narrowband and broadband platforms were developed at MATÁV, which enabled the introduction of cable television and value-added voice and non-voice services.

He actively worked in the Telecommunication Scientific Association (HTE), represented MATÁV in the University Telecommunications Information Center and the Hungarian National Host organizations. From its establishment in 1993 until 1999, he was one of the vice-chairmen of the Telecommunications Engineering Qualification Committee (TMMB).
His awards: György Békésy Memorial Medal (PKI, 1988); Gábor Baross Award (Ministry of Transport, Communications and Water, 1994).