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Thomas K. Thomas New Delhi, June 29 US-based Telcordia has bagged a contract from Unitech Wireless for supply of pre-paid mobile charging solution across the operator’s pan-Indian GSM network. The contract size is estimated at over $50 million. Telcordia recently bagged a similar contract from Aircel. The solution essentially acts as meter for pre-paid mobile users and gives subscribers real-time balance charge on the mobile card. New contractSpeaking to Business Line, Mr Anuj Kapur, Country Head, Service Delivery Solutions, Telcordia India, said, “This new contract will be implemented over five years. The deal includes both an upfront capital expenditure for Unitech as well as revenues linked to subscriber growth.” Mr Kapur recently moved to Telcordia from Alcatel-Lucent. Though Telcordia did not give out the value of the contract with Unitech Wireless, market analysts said that pre-paid charging solution deal size usually vary between 5 and 10 per cent of the total capital expenditure made by the operators on its network. Number portabilityTelcordia was recently selected by the Government to implement Mobile Number Portability, which allows subscribers to change operators without having to give up their phone numbers. The company has also been offering pre-paid charging solutions to operators including Idea Cellular and Tata Teleservices. The deal with Unitech marks a change in the way operators are selecting their billing and IT solutions providers. Multiple vendorsEarlier, operators would give the entire contract for rolling out network, setting up infrastructure and deploying software solution to a single vendor such as Nokia Siemens or Ericsson on a turnkey basis. But now operators prefer to give out separate contracts for various parts of a cellular network to specialist firms. More Stories on : Telecommunications | Software | Unitech Ltd
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