Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, today announced that it has won a deal from Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL), a pan India mobile license holder, to deploy its on-demand hosted contact center (InstaCC) services for all SSTL circles across the country, allowing the telco to move from capex to opex model. Sistema Shyam TeleServices, a joint venture between Russia’s Sistema and India’s Shyam group, is currently undertaking an aggressive roll out plan of its mobile services under the MTS brand and serves a fast growing subscriber base of over 1.3 a million across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Rajasthan, Kolkata, West Bengal and Bihar.
Under the deal, Tata Communications would deploy its state-of-the-art hosted contact center solution InstaCC on a pay-per-use model for MTS, thereby freeing up resources and capital, which is crucial for the company at this stage of its ambitious growth plans. Tata Communications has deployed all the critical hardware and software needed to run a call center like IVR, ACD, dialer, recording, integration with 3rd party business applications and CRM software, etc. while MTS would pay on actual usage basis, giving it the freedom to ramp up or ramp down based on the business environment. This service is an end-to-end IP solution, which brings forth the true benefits of virtualization for centrally managed multi-site contact centers. In the first phase, Tata Communications would be managing infrastructure for 2000 seats across all their circles, of which 700 seats are already deployed across their South and East circles. Currently the Northern circle is getting deployed.
“MTS is on a fast trajectory of growth, and our contact center operations will grow at a rapid pace, inline with our expansion across 22 circles in India. Quality of service will be our key differentiator in a highly competitive telecom market. We look forward to a service that is obsolescence proof, scalable and reliable in uptime. Tata Communications was best meeting our requirement of a reliable hosting solutions partner, offering a cost effective model.” said .Mr. Rajeev Batra, CIO, Sistema Shyam TeleServices.
“With InstaCC, we provide a very flexible contact center environment which helps customers to have a very effective customer service strategy by standardizing the customer experience across India. Besides cutting their capex, it also crunches their go-to-market time, as now they don’t have to build the entire call center infrastructure before rolling out,” said Alok Bardiya, Vice President, Managed Services & Marketing, Tata Communications.
For further information on Tata Communications’ hosted contact center service, visit http://www.tatacommunications.com/enterprise/contactcenter/
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About Tata Communications
Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets, Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.
The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly 1 million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide.
Tata Communications’ depth and breadth of reach in emerging markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services, leadership in global international voice, and strategic investments in operators in South Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata Communications Lanka Limited), Nepal (United Telecom Limited), and subject to approval by the Chinese government, China (China Enterprise Communications).
Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)
About Sistema Shyam TeleServices
Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL) is a joint venture company between Sistema {LSE: SSA} of Russia and Shyam Group of India. Sistema is the majority share holder in this joint venture with a 74% equity stake, along with the Shyam Group, holding a 23.5% stake and the rest 2.5% being public partake. SSTL has spectrum to provide mobile telephony services in all the 22 circles across the country. In a recent development, SSTL tied up with Mobile TeleSystems OJSC of Russia to bring the globally acclaimed telecom brand-MTS-to India. MTS is the 8th largest telecom brand in the world and has recently been voted as the 71st ranked brand out of 100 top global brands in the world by Millward Brown.
