Orange Botswana has entered into a multi-year managed services agreement for Ericsson to manage its network operations.
Under the terms of the contract, Ericsson will assume responsibility of the operational management and field maintenance of Orange Botswana’s network infrastructure
As a result, 27 employees from Orange Botswana joined Ericsson as of 1 September 2014 on terms similar to those they had at Orange Botswana.
Philippe Baudin, CEO of Orange Botswana, comments: “This agreement with Ericsson reflects our long-standing partnership, and our ongoing commitment to deliver on a simple promise: to be first for service, value, and innovation.”
Karl Johan-Nybell, vice-president: managed asrvices at Ericsson sub-Saharan Africa, says: “As Africa’s leading provider of managed services, we are committed to bringing our global expertise and experience in this field to bear on this engagement, with the aim of affording Orange’s customers quality services and superior network performance.”
So far, Ericsson has signed more than 300 managed services contracts in more than 100 countries and provides managed services for networks that serve over one more than 1-billion subscribers worldwide.
