Bharti Airtel extends partnership with Ericsson
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· USD 1.3 billion network expansion contract
· Airtel users to enjoy an enhanced voice quality and faster data access
· Agreement will enable Airtel to put in place a converged network and
expanded coverage in rural India
· Ericsson will expand and upgrade Airtel's network in 15 circles
Today, Bharti Airtel and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) further strengthened their
strategic partnership with a USD 1.3 billion network expansion contract. Airtel
users will enjoy an enhanced voice quality and faster data access. The agreement
will enable Airtel to put in place a converged network and expanded coverage in
rural India. Ericsson will expand and upgrade Airtel's network in 15 of India's
22 telecom circles.
"Our pioneering model of aligning with strategic partners who share our vision
and bring in world-class experience and expertise to execute our plans has
helped us focus on our customers and market place," says Sanjay Kapoor, CEO-
India & South Asia, Bharti Airtel. "The extension of our fifteen years
association with Ericsson is testimony to the strength of the relationship as
well as the success of the model. We continue to be delighted with Ericsson's
expertise in network expansion and transformation, helping us to reduce
operating expenditures and enhance network quality. This way we can continue to
provide a superior customer experience."
Hans Vestberg, President and CEO of Ericsson, says "Airtel is poised to
spearhead the next telecom revolution in India and take the 2G experience to
greater heights. In this partnership, we will set a new benchmark for the world
in terms of network size and quality, types of services and end-user
experience."
As part of this contract, Ericsson will supply its industry-leading portfolio of
energy efficient 2G/2.5G radio base stations, circuit and packet core, microwave
transmission and Intelligent Network. In addition, Ericsson will ensure that
Bharti Airtel's core and transport network is 3G-ready in order to reduce time
to market and enable the fast rollout of 3G services at a later date. The
expansion covers introduction of some of the latest technologies within the
wireless world which will bring better quality voice to end users, support more
users in using one base station, enhanced data rates using Evolved EDGE
technology and other new services.
Ericsson is the largest telecom network supplier supplying, for example, mobile,
wire line, DTH, device management and variety of services such as prepaid to
Airtel.
Notes to editors:
About Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is among Asia's
leading integrated telecom services providers with operations in India, Sri
Lanka and Bangladesh. In South Asia, the company had an aggregate of over 134
million customers as of the end February 2010, including 124.6 million mobile
customers in India. Bharti Airtel has been ranked among the six best performing
technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek.
Bharti Airtel is structured as four strategic business units - Mobile,
Telemedia, Enterprise and Digital TV. The mobile business offers services in
India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The Telemedia business provides broadband, IPTV
and telephone services in 94 Indian cities. The Enterprise business provides
end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and
international long-distance services to carriers. The Digital TV business
provides DTH services across India. All these services are provided under the
Airtel brand. Airtel's national high-speed optic-fiber network currently spans
over 118,337km across India. Airtel's international network infrastructure
includes ownership of the i2i submarine cable system and consortium ownership in
five global undersea cable systems, SEA-ME-WE 4, EIG, I-ME-WE, AAG and UNITY.
For more information, visit www.airtel.in
Press release from 2007: Bharti Airtel awards network expansion contract to
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