Airtel awards managed services contract to Sierra Global

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Bharti Airtel, has awarded the Managed Services (MS) Passive contract to Sierra Global, a leading telecommunication infrastructure development and Managed Services firm in Sri Lanka.

Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company and world’s third largest in-country mobile operator in the world with over 255 million customers across 20 countries in Asia and Africa with their aggressive expansion in to the Sri Lankan market over the past few years

Bharti Airtel Lanka commenced commercial operations of services in Sri Lanka in 2009 and was the fastest operator to reach 1 million customers. With its robust network coverage across the country and having captured strategic ranking positions across Sri Lanka in less than three years of operations, Airtel has emerged as Sri Lanka’s fastest expanding network.

“We are extremely pleased in entering into a strategic business partnership with Sierra Global, for the management and maintenance of Airtel towers - Passive Operations and Maintenance. In the next years to come, voice with a special focus on data, riding on the waves of 2G and 3G technologies will be the main trust in Sri Lanka and it is imperative that customers experience high connectivity through an interruption free service. This partnership is evidence to our commitment in working towards new ways of delivering seamless network experience for our customers,” Bharti Airtel Lanka Managing Director and CEO Suren Goonewardene said.

“Considering the past performance and long term working relationship build since the inception of the operation of Bharti Airtel in Sri Lanka, we were awarded this important contract which directly links with our business plan for next 5 years,” Sierra Global CEO and Director Dr. Arosha Fernando said.

“Through a contract with a global telecommunication equipment manufacturer, Sierra Global has embarked in to the Managed Services (MS) Passive area on 1st August 2011 by undertaking 350 of telecommunication base station tower sites of the Airtel network located in 10 regions - Chilaw, Puttalam, Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Dambulla, Vavuniya, Polonnaruwa, Trincomalee, Kilinochchi and Jaffna. Currently the number of sites has increased up to 425 in these areas and the company has been continually improving the performance. Due to the proven good performance and awarding of this new contract to us directly by Bharti Airtel, we expect Bharti Airtel to allocate further more sites to us in the future” Dr. Arosha added.