Airtel partners Ericsson for deploying VoLTE technology in India
April 10, 2019
Bharti Airtel has awarded a new contract to Ericsson for implementing voice-over long-term evolution (VoLTE) and IMS technologies in India. The agreement will result in deployment of the Ericsson Cloud VoLTE solution, an industrialised solution to deliver VoLTE services onto a customer data center.
The move has been undertaken to strengthen Airtel's VoLTE service capability in the country. Airtel has deployed a pan-India 4G network and rolled out VoLTE to offer HD quality calling over 4G smartphones and smart watches. As part of Project Leap, Airtel is building a future-ready network to offer innovative communication services
Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Bharti Airtel, stated, “We remain committed to building a state-of-the-art future-ready network as part of our network transformation program - Project Leap - and deliver best-in-class digital experience to our smartphone customers. This partnership with Ericsson will allow us to rapidly increase VoLTE capacity to serve our growing traffic, and make our network prepared to easily introduce new communication services today and in 5G.”
Meanwhile, Nunzio Mirtillo , Head of Market Area South East Asia , Oceania and India , Ericsson stated: “We are delighted to support Airtel by delivering our Ericsson Cloud VoLTE solution, which will provide them with a high-quality, modern, cloud-based solution for today’s and tomorrow’s communication service needs. We start today with expanding HD voice over LTE services across India, which will establish a platform to easily introduce new innovative services in the future.”
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