Network Outsourcing Deals

Australia's 3rd largest mobile operator VHA - a 50:50 joint-venture between Vodafone and Hutchison - is to outsource its network operations to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) in a seven-year deal expected to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The contract includes service management for a number of key parts of VHA’s mobile network - core, transmission and radio networks - and equipment supply for its core network. The deal was VHA’s "first major network contract” since the company’s formation.