Bharti Airtel, Alcatel-Lucent Form Managed Services JV
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom service provider, and
Alcatel-Lucent have formed a joint venture (JV) to manage Bharti
Airtel’s pan-India broadband and telephone services and help its
transition to next generation networks.
Under
the joint venture, Alcatel-Lucent will design, plan, deploy, optimize
and manage Bharti Airtel's broadband and telephone network across India.
A new legal entity is being formed which will be operated by
Alcatel-Lucent.
"We
will leverage Alcatel-Lucent's global expertise in IP transformation and
network management while allowing us to focus on customer delivery and
market growth," says Manoj Kohli, CEO, Bharti Airtel.
"We
appreciate the opportunity that Bharti Airtel has given us to
demonstrate our worldwide expertise in network transformation, managed
network services, and IP transformation," said Ben Verwaayen, CEO of
Alcatel-Lucent.
This
managed services partnership will include all end-to-end activities –
service rollout, installation, and fault repair, service continuity and
transformation. It will support Bharti Airtel to offer services like
high-speed internet, triple play, media-rich VAS, MPLS, VPN for both
retail and business customers.
The
partnership, says Alcatel-Lucent, will also drive optimal capital
investment and increase operational efficiency by moving voice and data
traffic onto a single, 'packetized' infrastructure.
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