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| Bharti Airtel |
Bharti
Airtel, a telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries
across Asia and Africa, has said that it has undertaken an end-to-end network
transformation program across its mobile operations in 16 African countries.
The program,
which is the largest of its kind on the African continent, in partnership with
Ericsson involved a comprehensive upgrade and expansion of network elements on
all of Airtel's African operations, including switching, radio, network
management, data, charging, and consumer-services platforms and systems.
This
network transformation program, under which Ericsson has deployed latest
wireless technologies, will enhance Airtel's network capacity and robustness
and help deliver best-in-class services to customers at affordable rates.
It also makes the
company's networks fully ready for next generation services that include high
speed data and value added services.
In addition, a
full upgrade of the charging platforms across all operations was implemented
introducing the latest version of Ericsson's Charging System, enabling Airtel
to offer subscribers new and innovative value-added services such as mobile
wallets.
Eben
Albertyn, Chief Technical Officer, Airtel Africa noted that the customer is at
the core of everything they do. "The implementation of this transformation
program will enable us to further enrich our customer experience across the
region.
Ericsson's
systems integration organization delivers more than 1500 systems integration
projects per year in multi-vendor and multiple-technology environments.
Projects range from single-solution integrations to end-to-end solution
transformation projects such as this one.
Lars Lindén, head
of Ericsson Sub-Saharan Africa, explained that in the transition to a Networked
Society in Africa, operators are facing growing challenges in meeting the
rapidly evolving demands of consumers. "The focus of this project was
transforming our networks to meet current and future consumer demands."
East African Business Week
(Kampala)