Reliance Communications Limited (RCOM) is planning to award a long-term outsourcing contract for its telecom services to Alactel-Lucent or Ericsson.
The Rs 80 billion deal would cover the entire range of RCOM?s telecom services including wireless, wireline, and utilities across the country. The deal would entail outsourcing end-to-end management services, including operational planning of the network, management and maintenance of GSM, CDMA and wireline networks, fibre, utilities, internet protocol and quality control.
The deal, to be awarded to a single operator, is expected to be finalised by July, 2012. According to news reports, besides Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson, equipment makers such as Nokia Siemens Network, Huawei Technology and ZTE Corporation also made a bid for the contract.
