Partnership to cover Asia Pac, India & Middle East
BANGALORE, India and RICHARDSON, Tex., Aug. 14 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Navini Networks, a leading provider of Mobile WiMAX(TM) solutions, today announced it has signed a Value Added Services (VAS) agreement with GTL Limited, India’s largest Network Services provider to the world, to provide services and solutions to Telecom operators deploying Navini’s Mobile WiMAX solutions.
"Our focus is providing a full suite of Network Services like planning and design, deployment, operations and maintenance, professional services, application and infrastructure management in all the markets where we operate. By partnering with a leading WiMAX solution provider like Navini, we have an opportunity to provide reliable, competitive and quality network services to customers in this domain." said Mr. Charudatta Naik, Chief Operating Officer, GTL Limited.
He added "GTL’s main expertise comes from undertaking project management responsibility on behalf of our customers, enabling them to achieve scale and efficiency quickly and ensuring faster time to market. We also have the capability to provide full infrastructure solutions including towers, shelters, and associated equipment for wireless and/or wireline networks. This way, we believe we can add value to Navini’s WiMAX offerings."
"We’re very excited about this partnership with GTL. They bring very important offerings to our customers in a large and rapidly growing portion of our markets (Asia Pacific, India and Middle East). For India specifically, Navini’s Mobile WiMAX solution with Beamforming and MIMO is well suited and with GTL on our team, operators can look forward to a very rapid and smooth deployment," said Sai Subramanian, Navini’s VP of Product Management and Strategic Marketing. "We have the right technology & expertise available to support operator’s business plans and in the timeframe required to acquire subscribers quickly."
Navini has an R&D center in Bangalore and offices in Bangalore and New Delhi. "We’ve had a strong presence in India for years with over 100 employees," added Subramanian. "We contribute to the Indian economy and we are dedicated to the Indian market."
About GTL Limited
GTL is a leading Network Services company, offering services and solutions to address the Network Life Cycle requirements of Telecom Carriers and Technology providers (OEMs).
GTL’s consolidated Income for FY 2006-07 (trailing twelve months) ending March 31, 2007 stood at Rs. 11562.8 million (USD 258 million). Today GTL executes projects in over 25 countries, has built over 35 cellular networks, installed and commissioned over 20000 cell sites, connecting over 20 million subscribers, has set up over 500 corporate networks, and built over 51000 BPO seats.
For more than a decade, leading wireless carriers, equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprises have trusted and talented and trained engineering professionals to plan, design, deploy, optimize, manage, and maintain their networks and applications. Our trained and skilled manpower of over 3,390 associates offer assured quality to customers through integrated end-to-end services.
http://www.gtllimited.com
About Navini Networks:
With the largest commercial deployments in the world, over 70 commercial networks in 6 continents and strategic partnerships with industry leaders, Navini Networks is the leader in providing portable, plug-n-play broadband wireless access solutions worldwide.
Navini is the only company that offers commercial Mobile WiMAX products and has commercialized patented smart beamforming technology, enabling personal broadband for the mass market. Only Navini has the WiMAX solution that enhances Mobile WiMAX with Smart Beamforming, and beamformed MIMO, providing operators with the power to deliver on the promise of personal broadband, both indoors and outdoors.
Navini’s Ripwave(R) MX solution offers a portable, zero-install, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) product line consists of customer modems, base stations, and element management systems (EMS) that run in the full range of spectrums.
Navini Networks is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum and the IEEE 802.16e committee and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
http://www.navini.com
