14 DAY TRIAL // Alcatel-Lucent announced they have been selected to manage several network business divisions of Germany's third-largest mobile communications provider, E-Plus Mobilfunk. Under the terms of the network outsourcing agreement, E-Plus Mobilfunk will transfer the operational business divisions responsible for the operation, maintenance and deployment of its cellular network to Alcatel-Lucent. About 750 E-Plus employees in Germany will join Alcatel-Lucent.
"Our decision to enter a strategic partnership with Alcatel-Lucent is designed to guarantee our subscribers a network of a constantly increasing quality over the long term," explained Elmar Grasser, Chief Technical Officer of E-Plus Mobilfunk. "Alcatel-Lucent is the world's leading network integrator with the resources to meet future network construction and maintenance requirements with greater speed, flexibility and cost synergies than we could alone. And with this step, we're once again playing a pioneering role on the German market."
E-Plus will maintain responsibility for strategic network planning and network development, including the selection of mobile communication locations and their technical equipment to ensure the long-term quality of its cellular network. The outsourcing of several network divisions is part of E-Plus' strategic reorientation and follows the company's recently announced restructuring. These measures will enable E-Plus to concentrate on its core business, reduce operational expenses and increase network quality.
"By outsourcing individual business divisions, we can apply greater energy to our core business - and that means quality and especially care for our customers. It will put us in a position to focus even more attention on the development of simple, cost-effective mobile communications solutions for clearly defined customer segments," added Grasser.
Network operations and managed services is a key focus area for Alcatel-Lucent's service activities. Alcatel-Lucent manages more than 50 networks around the world from ten of its Global Network Operations Centers and IP Transformation Centers.