The Hindu Business Line : Bharti inks $400-m deal with Nokia

Bharti Airtel today announced the signing of a $400-million contract with Nokia for managing and expanding its cellular networks in eight telecom circles.

Nokia will also deploy a pan-India (Wireless Application Protocol) solution across Bharti's networks. The Nokia win comes two months after Bharti awarded a $1-billion contract to Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson to expand networks in the other 15 circles where Airtel operates.

As per the three-year contract, Nokia will provide managed services and expand Airtel networks to cover all towns and cities in the eight telecom circles of Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa, Gujarat, Bihar (including Jharkhand), Orissa, Kolkata, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh).

The network monitoring operations will be carried out from Nokia's Global Network Services Centre in Chennai. Bharti had earlier signed a three-year $400-million deal with Nokia to manage its network in these eight circles. Prior to today's announcement ,Bharti and Nokia have signed two deals worth $400 million.

As part of the new contract with Bharti, Nokia will deploy the latest radio and core network equipment including softswitch, flexi-base stations and mini-Ultrasite base stations and provide services based on Bharti's capacity requirements.

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