Comarch, E-Plus Form Outsourcing Partnership

Dutch mobile-phone operator E-Plus has selected Comarch as a strategic outsourcing partner for next-generation network planning. The two companies have signed a letter of intent and intend for the five-year partnership to officially begin by the end of February 2010.

Comarch will deliver the OSS platform, covering the areas of planning and configuration management for the Radio Access and Transport Network, as well as migrate the existing data to the new platform. The platform will be delivered in a Managed Service business model.

The E-Plus Group is a division of KPN Mobile International, the mobile phone arm of Dutch telecommunications group KPN. The company has mobile operations in the Netherlands, Germany (E-Plus Group), Belgium (KPN Group), Spain and France. The KPN Group has a total of approximately 33 million mobile telecoms customers.