Nokia Siemens to Manage T-Mobile Austria’s Backhaul

T-Mobile Austria this week signed up Nokia Siemens Networks to manage its backhaul network, one move the company says it’s making to ensure its customers get high-speed and high-quality mobile broadband services.

The complete managed services solution – which includes planning, installation and management – will provide increased transport network throughput, bringing substantial operational benefits and enabling T-Mobile Austria to focus even more on delivering advanced mobile broadband to its subscribers, said the company.

“With this agreement we are transferring an operational part of our network into the hands of Nokia Siemens Networks. This allows us to further focus on providing our customers with new and higher quality services thanks to increased bandwidth, which Nokia Siemens Networks will supply,” says Jim Burke, chief technical officer at T-Mobile Austria. “We believe that this step will help us, to increase customer satisfaction even further and get an edge on our competition.”

Under the contract, which runs through 2013, Nokia Siemens Networks will assume full responsibility for the optimization and operation of the mobile backhaul network. The control and responsibility for the network and the supervision of its quality remains with T-Mobile Austria.

Nokia Siemens Networks will optimize the network by selecting the right backhaul technology, which fulfills the requirements of bandwidth, quality and best price. Technologies like leased lines from different suppliers, dark fiber or also microwave will be considered.

“This major managed services project proves Nokia Siemens Networks Managed Services footprint in mature markets and its services capabilities as well as thought leadership in providing its partners with innovative solutions and business models,” said Ralph Griewing, who is in charge of Nokia Siemens Networks’ business with T-Mobile across the world.

The managed services deal requires Nokia Siemens Networks to provide high quality backhaul from T-Mobile’s more than 6,000 radio network sites across Austria, serving 3.3 million customers.