Wipro Technologies, the global IT services arm of Wipro and Motorola have formed a joint venture, WMNetServ, to deliver managed services for telecom operators.Wipro said it will hold a majority stake in this venture and the responsibility of eliciting clients will be with Motorola. Wipro parallely will hold responsibility of delivering the services on an end-to-end basis. This JV will initially focus on Motorola's existing client base and will offer end-to-end solutions right from rolling out a network, its optimisation and maintenance.Wipro will manage these services through a Network Operations Centre at Delhi and Bangalore that will integrate with Motorola's existing NoCs in North America and Europe to provide round-the-clock network monitoring capabilities to customers. Declining to state the kind of revenues or the number of people, Wipro will generate from this JV, Rao said: "We have a good funnel of clients and we will hire as and when we get projects." "WMNetServ enables customers to benefit from Motorola's expertise in wireless technology and services, and leverage Wipro's global delivery model in telecom outsourcing to offer scalable operations and implementations of turnkey solutions," Rao said.WMNetServ will be led by a Wipro representative while the Board of Directors will have representation from Wipro and Motorola senior management.
