Motorola has been awarded a four-year full-operations and managed services contract by Warid Telecom for its GSM and Canopy networks in major cities and sub-districts in the eastern part of Bangladesh. Motorola commenced operating and maintaining the GSM and Canopy networks with concurrently with the rollout of Warid's commercial services in March 2007.
The contract includes managed services covering the operations and maintenance of GSM Base Station Systems (BSS), transmission quality, as well as operations and maintenance of the MOTOwi4 Canopy systems used for last mile customer connectivity.
"The outsourcing of network operations and maintenance to Motorola enables us to focus resources on executing go-to-market strategies as well as create better customer experiences with the new GSM networks," said Marwan Zawaydeh, CTO, Warid Group. "As such, this managed services contract with Motorola benefits Warid Telecom beyond cost efficiencies as it enhances the company's overall business agility."
Posted to the site on 22nd March 2007