Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading cellular service providers, through its Business Solutions division now offers total communications – wireline and wireless (voice & data) to its Enterprise customers. Vodafone has set up a full-fledged business unit to address the B2B needs of its customers. Vodafone Business Solutions plays a key role in the overall corporate strategy for Vodafone Essar.

The Indian enterprise connectivity market is growing at a 10 per cent annual rate and is estimated to be around $10 billion (approximately Rs 470 billion) in the next five years.  With a successfully established enterprise business module in global markets such as UK, Spain, Italy and Germany, Vodafone Essar is well-equipped to provide fixed line, mobile and data services to its prospective customers in India. Vodafone Essar has also partnered with Wipro, leading global IT services company to build and manage its fixed line telecom service business. This was added to the already existing mobile network infrastructure to offer total telecom solutions to the enterprises.

To ensure seamless network and service, Vodafone has over 95,000 km of fibre, about 100,000 base stations, ready 3G network for all markets and All-IP switches and wireline presence in over 100 top cities.  Vodafone Business Solutions also has 40 MPLS POPs, 6 international POPs, and a state-of-the-art Network Operation Centre to ensure ease and simplicity of services to enterprise requirements.

Speaking on the occasion, Naveen Chopra, Director, Enterprise and Carrier Business, said, “The enterprise business is a strategic initiative to drive growth. Understanding the demand for data services, Vodafone Business Solutions provides total communications solutions that fully integrate wireline and wireless (voice & data) for organizations looking at services beyond mobility. India is a key market for us and Vodafone is geared to be a one-stop-shop communication solutions provider for its customers.”

Vodafone Business Solutions offers a varied range of products/services such as Machine to Machine solutions, leased lines (NPLC, MPLS, VPN, IPLC, ILL), Office Wireline Voice (EI, DID), Toll Free Services, Audio Confrencing, Mobilisation of Applications, Email & Connectivity, 3G solutions specific to business needs and productivity enhancing tools like Spend Tracker and Vodafone Voyager to help businesses enhance their productivity and efficiency.