SSTL’s MTS India bagged CIO100 Award from IDG for incorporating innovation in the company’s IT framework created for roll out and operations. The framework comprises of Classic IT, IN, VAS and CCT (Call Centre Technology). 

The award was received for the company by its CIO, Mr. Rajeev Batra.

The initiatives implemented included setting up green data centre and encouraging green IT usage in across offices, virtualization for optimizing server and storage hardware, installing latest SIGTRAN signaling technology and adopting strategy of outsourcing components of IT services.

 “It is a great honor for MTS India to be ranked in the league of top 100 companies in the country that are transforming business through innovative technology. Being a new entrant in the Indian telecom market, one of our key challenges was to quickly and efficiently launch our services across the country, which required scalable and robust IT infrastructure to support such fast-paced growth. We began deployment of IT framework for our services in March 2009 with an investment of Rs. 150 crores. We have already launched our services in 6 telecom circles with a current subscriber base over 1.7 million. We will cover all telecom circles across India by Q3 of 2010,” said Mr. Rajeev Batra.

“Effective planning and impeccable team effort helped us deploy systems that can manage our expansive growth across newer geographies within India comfortably and seamlessly. Having been able to launch services on schedule helped us save approximately Rs.25 crores by using innovative ways of enterprise architecture design and best practices underlined in ITIL and BSM,” added Mr. Batra.