Monday, 3 September 2007

Tata Consultancy and BSNL Enter $ 140 million Deal

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a component of India’s largest industrial conglomerate the Tata Group, has inked a multi-year period deal with BSNL--India’s largest telecom player and reportedly the world’s 7th largest telecommunications company-- to provide a range of telecom services to enable complete transformation of existing systems and processes to next generation convergent billing system.

As part the transformational deal, TCS will lead manage the overall engagement along with a team of hardware, software and application partners. It will also involve setting up complex data networks across the vast BSNL footprint in North and West of India and includes deployment of Operational Support Systems (OSS) and Business Support Systems (BSS) components such as customer relationship management, billing, mediation, directory enquiry among others. The overall engagement involves managing the development, deployment and operations of services.

“TCS will leverage its assets, frameworks, development processes, best practices and prior experience of similar such engagements in order to deliver the next generation of services to the biggest telecom service provider in India and help BSNL deliver certainty to its end users,” said N. Chandrasekaran, head, global sales and operations, TCS.