Alcatel-Lucent, Airtel Name Arnaud Soubelet CEO of Managed Svcs JV
IT News Online Staff
2009-08-20
Alcatel-Lucent and Bharti Airtel Ltd. have named Arnaud Soubelet as the CEO of their joint venture Alcatel-Lucent Network Management Services India Ltd. (ALNMSI).
The joint venture will manage Airtel's pan India wireline broadband and telephone services. It will also support its transition to next generation networks (NGN) to offer advanced services like high-speed Internet, triple play, media-rich value-added services, MPLS, virtual private networks (VPN) for both retail and business customers of Airtel.
The new entity, which began pan India operations on August 1st with 4,000 employees, is headquartered in NCR (National Capital Region).
"I am delighted to be part of Alcatel-Lucent Network Managed Services India. This joint venture is a landmark being the first managed services operations for fixed networks in India," said Arnaud Soubelet. "This is a great step towards transforming Bharti Airtel's network to next generation IP technology while improving the quality of service."
"By driving superior service for Bharti Airtel's customers, we are looking to establish the new joint venture as the reference for wireline managed services and IP transformation," added Soubelet.
Arnaud Soubelet began his career with Alcatel-Lucent in 1988. Over the last 20 years, he has held several key assignments in France, Latin America, Greece, Egypt and India across sales, enterprises and managed services.
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