Global systems integrator and business transformation consulting services firm Tech Mahindra and billing, customer care and policy control offerings provider FTS have formed a policy control and LTE partnership.
The strategic alliance will incorporate FTS’ Leap Policy Control into Tech Mahindra’s LTE Packet Core Lab for both internal and partner offering and the Lab will now include FTS’ products as part of its policy control (PCRF) offering, with a strong focus on technology and R&D.
The policy control enables the telecom operators to set policies to help manage the increased network traffic in real-time, whilst at the same time, allowing for increased marketing capabilities as additional personalisation can be achieved and effectively managed in real-time, resulting in an improved customer experience.
Under the partnership, Tech Mahindra offers a complete end-to-end policy control offering to network operators as part of its new Mobile Packet Core (LTE) Lab and the FTS’ Leap Policy Control and billing offerings will be integrated into Tech Mahindra’s end-to-end offering, alongside its other partners in this area for interoperability requirements.
To meet the telco industry’s standard requirements on regulating the policy and bandwidth control usage scenarios, Tech Mahindra’s LTE Wireless Infrastructure lab will leverage the FTS policy control solutions
With FTS’ Leap Policy Control, operators can adopt service and network behavior in real-time in response to customer interaction, helping operators resolve traffic growth issues without impacting on the user experience and it monitors, manages traffic and subscribers with easy-to-implement policy control rules which are pre-integrated with online charging and the subscribers’ data.
Tech Mahindra Global Alliances director Pritam Parvatkar said addressing the evolving need of broadband traffic monetisation is key to fulfill customer expectations.
"With its advanced policy control and online charging solutions, FTS allows us to accomplish this goal. This is a great opportunity and we look forward to leveraging this partnership to expand our existing BSS and PCRF services and solutions," said Parvatkar.
FTS CEO Amos Sivan said the combination of Tech Mahindra’s exceptional technological and R&D expertise with FTS’ innovative technology and products creates a powerhouse of a PCRF offering.
"This partnership further strengthens and extends the reach of our solution delivery capabilities and represents our global progression as we continue to form alliances with renowned partners," said Sivan.
