Friday, February 25, 2011
Vodafone to Launch 3G Services in India by next month
Vodafone E
ssar, India leading telecom operator, has announced that its 3G services will be rolled out by the end of this fiscal year. Vodafone announced this just after the 3G roll out of Aircel. The company has confirmed that 3G roll out will be on a city-wise basis and not state-wise.
“We have a 3G-ready network, currently in optimisation which we will be launching very quickly,” said, Vodafone Essar Director, Naveen Chopra.
Presently, trials are on and the service is expected to be launched in a phased manner by March. The firm has the capability of servicing enterprise customers for fixed line, Mr. Chopra said, adding “we have over 95,000 km of optical fiber and a 3G-ready network.”
The company in collaboration with IT major Wipro, to built a state of the art network operation centre in Pune to service fixed line customers.
“Wipro will be managing both end-to-end services of both managing the fixed line network as well as understanding our customers, right from provisioning line network as they come out on fixed line services and then monitoring their performances as well ground support, etc,” added Chopra.
ssar, India leading telecom operator, has announced that its 3G services will be rolled out by the end of this fiscal year. Vodafone announced this just after the 3G roll out of Aircel. The company has confirmed that 3G roll out will be on a city-wise basis and not state-wise. “We have a 3G-ready network, currently in optimisation which we will be launching very quickly,” said, Vodafone Essar Director, Naveen Chopra.
Presently, trials are on and the service is expected to be launched in a phased manner by March. The firm has the capability of servicing enterprise customers for fixed line, Mr. Chopra said, adding “we have over 95,000 km of optical fiber and a 3G-ready network.”
“Wipro will be managing both end-to-end services of both managing the fixed line network as well as understanding our customers, right from provisioning line network as they come out on fixed line services and then monitoring their performances as well ground support, etc,” added Chopra.
