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23rd June 2004 - Ericsson has been awarded a contract
by Bharti to supply India's first nationwide single
vendor Intelligent Network (IN) solution and prepaid
system to provide functionality such as realtime cost
and spending control. The agreement covers all of Bharti's
existing and soon to be launched mobile systems in India.
Following the recent Managed Services contract with
Ericsson, this deal further reinforces the long-term
partnership between the companies covering infrastructure
as well as telecom services. The Intelligent Network
and charging solution for Bharti is part of an end-to-end
solution from Ericsson, where consulting and systems
integration services make it all work seamlessly in
Bharti's existing environment.
"Bharti and Ericsson are today taking another step
in strengthening the partnership between our two companies,
enabling a faster and seamless roll-out of market leading
voice and data services. Ericsson's Intelligent Network
based charging solution will enable Bharti to offer
converged services to its post and prepaid subscribers
in the near future," says Jan Campbell, Head of Ericsson
Market Unit India.
"With this agreement Bharti will benefit from a single
vendor 'all India' prepaid service with a consistent
feature set and timely implementation of products and
features across India," says Manoj Kohli, President-Mobility,
Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. "The cooperation with Ericsson
providing unique bonus and promotion features, comprehensive
data charging components and ease of integration will
ensure that we maintain and increase our leadership
in the Indian prepaid market."
Ericsson Charging System/PrePaid System, with 100 customers
across 70 countries using Ericsson solutions. Globally,
a substantial share of mobile prepaid users totaling
more than 130 million subscribers are connected to Ericsson
Charging Systems. Over 250 customers in more than 90
countries have adopted Ericsson's Intelligent Network
solutions with over 500 applications deployed worldwide.
About Ericsson's Charging Solutions
Ericsson's Charging Solution includes Charging System
and Multi Mediation, providing unique functionality,
as well as systems integration services for seamless
integration of solutions into the operator's existing
environment. It enables operators to handle their postpaid
and prepaid users in the same system, leveraging on
investments already made in business support systems
and eliminating the need for a separate billing system.
About Ericsson's Intelligent Network Solutions
Ericsson's Intelligent Networks (IN) portfolio consists
of a flexible platform and a variety of value-added
services that can be delivered on top of today's and
tomorrow's fixed and mobile networks. It enables the
evolution of existing operator services, protecting
and growing existing revenue streams towards tomorrow's
evolved networks. The Ericsson IN services portfolio
contains both Enterprise solutions as well as mass-market
targeted end-user services.
About Bharti
Bharti Tele-Ventures is India's leading private sector
provider of telecommunications services with an aggregate
of 7.7 million customers as of end of April '04, consisting
of over 7 million mobile customers. The Company today
offers mobile services in fifteen out of 23 circles
in India. The Company also provides fixed - line services
in 5 circles.
The company complements its mobile and fixed-line services
with national and international long distance services.
The company also has a submarine cable landing station
at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting
Chennai and Singapore. The company provides reliable
end-to-end data and enterprise services to the corporate
customers by leveraging its nationwide fibre optic backbone,
last mile connectivity in fixed-line and mobile circles,
VSATs, ISP and international bandwidth access through
the gateways and landing station. For more information,
visit www.bhartiteleventures.com.
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