Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company will be receiving equipment from telecom gear maker Alcatel-Lucent for its mobile broadband data and video services in Africa whereby Alcatel-Lucent will supply advanced new IP (Internet Protocol)-based networking technology to the company.
All the 17 affiliates of Bharti Airtel serving 60 million customers as well as interconnection to global networks including the UK will receive support of mobile broadband services through this new backbone network.
Besides, the single international network will offer a more simple structure to improve performance, reliability, capacity convergence and interoperable mechanisms for faster service recovery.
