Bharti Airtel, Asia’s leading integrated telecom service provider Joint hands with Alcatel-Lucent 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, optimize and manage Bharti Airtel’s Broadband and Telephone network across India. A new legal unit is being formed which will be operated by Alcatel-Lucent.

This Joint Venture is a step towards Bharti Airtel’s vision to continuously redefine and deliver the benchmarks of customer experience. Airtel will leverage Alcatel-Lucent’s global expertise in IP transformation and network management to focus on customer delivery and market growth’.

Bharti Airtel has given an opportunity to demonstrate Alcatel-Lucent’s worldwide expertise in network transformation, managed network services and IP transformation. The expansion of relationship is drawn on strengths as a global services player, ready to partner with innovative customers in their business transformation plans.

This Partnership will include all end-to-end activities service rollout, installation and fault repair, service continuity and transformation and will also 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. The partnership will also drive optimal capital investment and increase operational efficiency by moving voice and data traffic onto a single, 'packetized' infrastructure.

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