iTWire - Vodafone awards Nokia $300m 7-year outsource contract

Vodafone awards Nokia $300m 7-year outsource contract

by Stuart Corner
Thursday, 02 November 2006
! Vodafone Australia has outsourced the engineering, operations and maintenance of its HSDPA, 3G, GPRS and GSM networks to the supplier of those networks, Nokia, under a seven year contract worth almost $300 million. Vodafone Australia will transfer an unspecified number of related employees and contractors into the Services business unit of Nokia Networks. Nokia's responsibilities will include the detailed design, engineering and optimisation operations as well as network management, monitoring, fieldwork and maintenance services. Nokia says it has been working with Vodafone Australia since May 2004, and that the new deal extends its current WCDMA 3G network infrastructure relationship with Vodafone. Vodafone Australia, CEO, Russell Hewitt, said the deal made good sense for the company. "It delivers cost efficiencies and, at the same time, allows us to control the quality and technical direction of our networks so that we can deliver the best and most advanced technology available to Australian customers."{moscomment} Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Telecommunications Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now

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