Astellia has agreed a multi-million dollar agreement with Aircel, one of India’s largest mobile operator with a subscriber base of over 75 million.
Under the deal, Astellia has deployed its Nova suite for the optimisation of Aircel’s 2G and 3G radio access and core network resources. It allows Aircel to detect impediments that may cause network quality degradations and take promptly corrective actions, thereby ensuring the availability and efficiency of the network. Through this network optimisation, Aircel will be able to further strengthen its opex and capex strategies.
Astellia will use customer analytics to help Aircel understand and predict customer usage trends, optimise existing data plans or introduce new ones, address churn and optimise ROI on infrastructure investments.
“With fierce competition in the Indian mobile market and the frenzied adoption of smartphones, consumers are becoming increasingly discerning in terms of service quality. We have teamed up with Astellia to get an increased visibility into our network performance to offer enhanced customer experience and improved operational efficiency. I am also expecting revenue uplift based on customer insights and bespoken solutions coming out of the Astellia stable,” said Sameer Dave, the CTO of Aircel.
Mahantesh Patil, the managing director for India at Astellia, added: “This strategic cooperation lays a solid foundation for a long term partnership between Astellia and Aircel. We are very proud to help Aircel understand the needs and experience of their customers, and take proactive actions to enhance their data experience. We are delighted that Aircel recognizes Nova’s ease of use and flexibility to provide the intelligence required for them to be a differentiator in this competitive data market.”
