More of an infrastructure deal, this: Bharti Telesoft (BTSL) has tied up, interestingly, with a company that its sister concern was wooing: CIOL reports that BTSL will provide deploy SMSC, MMSC and WAP Gateway for all 21 of MTNs companies. MTN is among the largest mobile operators, and it appears that Indian companies are looking more and more towards Africa – OnMobile Global is using language development capabilities from Telisma to help it get entry into various markets – and claims to have already got a significant win in Africa; Telisma has developed language capabilities for 4 languages.
South Africa based MTN, which was in talks for mergers/acquisition with both Reliance Communications and Bharti Airtel in India, had over 74.1 million subscribers as of June 30, 2008. On its part, BTSL has had operations in Africa since 2002: do read about the context of their African foray here.
Listed in South Africa, the MTN Group is a multinational telecommunications group, reaching more than 500 million people and with more than 74.1 million subscribers as of June 30, 2008 across its operations.
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Will growing ambitions of Bharti Telesoft impact OnMobile’s business with Airtel, Any take on this ?
BTSL just got replaced by Onmobile in Airtel’s south circles for CRBT.
In India, BTSL is its own worst enemy. It should consider droppin Bharti from its name as Airtel doesnt support it and other operators dont want bharti with them.
Alternately, they should focus heavily on international markets to provide services where Bharti has a lot of equity… but the challenge they face is if Airtel isnt using them despite outsourcing almost everything, why should they?
As regards OnMobile, their biggest competition is IMI and other smaller players and their biggest challenge is what next? If AdCRBT doesnt work whats plan B?
Thanx, Company claim to spend ~8-10% of sales on R&D ,hope something comes out of that.
so does ranbaxy my friend … so does ranbaxy!!