Telecom network vendor Huawei has bagged a five-year managed services deal from MTN.

As per the managed services deal, Huawei will provide managed services for MTN in the six countries including Ghana, Cameroon, Guinea and Benin.

Huawei, which competes with ZTE, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Networks, Ericsson, etc. did not share financial details of the managed services deal.

The agreement will cover services such as managed network operations, network performance management and spare parts management, said Huawei.

Huawei’s managed services solutions will focus on enhancing operational efficiency and providing better network quality to MTN users.

In the next five years, Huawei will operate, optimize, transform and improve MTN’s operations and services with Huawei’s Managed Services Unified Platform (MSUP) and support from its global expertise in MAI (Measure, Analyze, Improve), to ensure greater efficiency and business value can be achieved at MTN.

MTN Capex

MTN Group last said its Capex (capital spending) in the first half of 2014 decreased 28.1 percent to ZAR 9.2 billion.

MTN said spending is likely to increase in the second half in most markets. MTN also increased its target for net mobile subscriber additions this year to 17.25 million, from an earlier estimate of 16.75 million.

MTN Group posted a 10.7 percent increase in revenue for the first half to ZAR 72.76 billion.

Subscribers rose 3.5 percent to 215 million, while data subscribers increased 7.3 percent over the same period to 88.5 million. MTN mobile money services grew 24.3 percent to 18.4 million.

Baburajan K
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