SSTL’s MTS brand announced the selection of Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE for its network managed services contract.

MTS said that it selected multiple vendors to ensure better outputs.

Speaking on the occasion, Vsevolod Rozanov, President & CEO of SSTL said, “We have opted for NMS model to create a benchmark for our service delivery and benefit our customers. We appreciate the continuous efforts of our existing strategic partners ZTE and Huawei and welcome Ericsson on board. We sincerely thank all the participants in the tender and are looking forward towards joint growth of business”.

“Further improving the network operations, Network Managed Service opted by MTS will allow the company to set a new standards of network delivery and achieving competitive cost position. It also allows learning from multiple MSV experiences and implementation, giving our customers the best of experiences”, said Jens Kirchner, Chief Technology Advisor of SSTL.

Pricing was another criterion for selection of these vendors said MTS. The operator also said that it will select vendors for remaining circles at a later stage.

Gowton Achaibar, Head of Region, Ericsson India, said, "We are glad to be chosen by SSTL to manage their network in the multi-vendor environment. We view this as a great opportunity to leverage our global experience of managing CDMA based Networks, for the first time in India. This reiterates our belief of putting customer first and our aim to go beyond technology to offer best of the class solutions to them. We are confident that with our strengths we will be able to deliver value to SSTL and their business needs”.

Speaking on the occasion, Huang Dabin, CEO, ZTE Telecom India Pvt Ltd said “We thank SSTL for awarding us the Network Managed Services contract which will be a enabler for ZTE to deliver the Excellent Services along with Best in Industry Products benefiting SSTL customers with best of Network Quality experiences & further strengthen the Strategic Partnership between the two companies”

According to Max Yang, CEO Huawei India, "This is an important milestone for Huawei in India. SSTL users will benefit from Huawei's MS expertise based on its vast experience in the Managed Services domain, in both local & Global markets. We are extremely confident of setting new standards of network performance improvement for SSTL in India".

As part of the deal the selected vendors will handle entire active network elements including staff and Program Management of passive infrastructure at the Core Equipment offices and Media providers at BTS sites. In addition to that for MTS owned sites, vendors will also manage comprehensive AMC for Passive infrastructure at BTS sites.