Nokia extends managed services agreement with Chorus for fixed line network in New Zealand
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* Three-year contract extension for management of end-to-end operations
* Nokia remains sole managed services partner for Chorus
9 March, 2017
Wellington, New Zealand - Nokia has renewed its managed services agreement with
Chorus, New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure company, for a
further three years.
Under the new contract, Nokia will continue to provide fully managed end-to-end
operations services to further enhance the customer experience, operational
efficiency and quality of the operator's national fixed line network.
Chorus will also leverage Nokia's technical capabilities and global services
expertise to continue delivering an optimal customer experience across New
Zealand.
Agreement scope, at a glance:
* Extension of the intitial managed services contract, signed in 2014, for a
further three years.
* Managed services provision includes end-to-end operations and network
management from Nokia's Global Delivery Center in India for best-in-class
network quality and efficiency
* Real-time service management using performance data and proactive
correlation of network events to prevent faults and improve network
availability, as well as reduce the number of incidents while optimizing the
costs.
Ewen Powell, CTO at Chorus, said: "Our decision to extend the existing agreement
reflects our satisfaction with Nokia operations and support services. We need a
partner that understands our business and can deliver simplicity over
complexity, helping us launch innovative offerings to our partners and their
customers while improving the overall reliability of our networks. Nokia has
proven its capabilities to do that, so the extension was very straight forward."
Ray Owen, head of Oceania at Nokia, said: "This is an outstanding validation of
our close, continuing collaboration with Chorus, one of Nokia's long-standing
partners. This strategic project aligns with Nokia's global approach to
operations and stands as a leading example for broadband service providers
aspiring to best-practice management and enhancement of their networks."
Nokia has been working with Chorus since its inception in 2011, providing fixed
access solutions, services and network operations support as the operator's
preferred supplier. The contract reinforces the partnership between the two
companies as well as Nokia's capabilities for managing operations of multi-
vendor networks in Oceania.
Did you know?
* Nokia has extensive global experience in managed services for over 17 years,
including network and service operations in mobile, fixed, applications and
IP domains for government, enterprise and telecommunication markets.
* The company is a market leader with more than 200 managed services contracts
in mobile and fixed networks across the world. Two out of three of these
contracts are multi-vendor.
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