Ericsson has announced it is now serving one billion mobile subscribers globally through its managed networks, signing more than 300 contracts worldwide.
The company’s infrastructure also supports customer networks that serve more than 2.5 billion subscribers.
“We’re very proud to have passed the one billion subscriber milestone, as this confirms our leadership in managed services,” said Magnus Mandersson, Ericsson’s executive vice president and head of business unit global services.
“We achieved this goal by earning the trust of our customers with our high-performance operations and processes and our skilled people, which are at the heart of Ericsson’s services business. The next step is to make the transition from traditional managed services to Experience Centric Managed Services.”
In Africa, Ericsson has signed a deal with Airtel to undertake an end-to-end network transformation programme across Airtel’s mobile operations in 16 African countries.
The programme, which is the largest of its kind on the African continent, involves a comprehensive upgrade and expansion of network elements on all of Airtel’s African operations, including switching, radio, network management, data, charging, and consumer-services platforms and systems.
