Mobile and Wireless

Airtel, Alca-Lu form managed services joint venture

By Team Diginews4u ⋅ May 2, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Bharti Airtel, an integrated telecom service provider headquartered in India, and Alcatel-Lucent, a communication solutions provider, have formed a joint venture to manage Bharti Airtel’s pan-India broadband and telephone services and help Airtel’s transition to next generation networks.

Under the joint venture, Alcatel-Lucent will design, plan, deploy, optimise 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.

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’s transformation to next generation networks, offering advanced services like high-speed internet, triple play, media-rich VAS, MPLS, VPN for both retail and business customers.

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