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Vodafone UK and BT sign managed access agreement |
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
Vodafone UK and BT have announced a new managed network solutions agreement that will see BT Wholesale provide and manage high speed connectivity between Vodafone's UK base stations and its core national network. Under the terms of the five-year agreement, BT will deliver a cost-efficient and flexible solution that enables Vodafone UK to manage the predicted growth in traffic and bandwidth requirements from its range of new bandwidth-intensive mobile applications, such as web browsing, video streaming and music downloads, without the need to invest significant capital in self-build technology. The five-year contract deploys BT's new 21st Century Network-enabled Ethernet service, offering backhaul speeds of up to 60Mbits/s. The new next-generation, carrier class service provides customers with flexible and scalable bandwidth to meet increased demand, with costs that match actual traffic and revenue increases. This agreement allows Vodafone
UK to avoid capital investment risk, while benefiting from the economies of scale and national reach BT Wholesale offers. Consumers are increasingly using mobile devices to access and send data such as photos, video and gaming and high speed web browsing. These high-bandwidth applications put an additional load on backhaul networks. BT is able to manage this access network and flex it to cope with the demands that Vodafone's customers put on it.
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