Al-Lu, India’s Reliance Outsource Telco Operations

India-based telecom giant Reliance Communications and Alcatel-Lucent have formed a global joint venture to offer outsourced managed network services to telcos. They’ll initially focus on CDMA and GSM network operators.

The first task will involve providing managed services for Reliance Communications’ CDMA and GSM networks in India.

But the venture aims to address a broader matter: service providers want to offload network and back-office management to save money and focus more on core business drivers such as new service/revenue creation.

Reliance Communications Ltd., founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani, is the flagship company of the $14 billion Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The communications business owns and operates what it says is the world's largest next-generation, IP-enabled connectivity infrastructure. That’s said to comprise more than 165,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable systems in India, the United States, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.

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