MTS, the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and Nokia announced a partnership agreement for joint development and deployment of Nokia's new technological solutions to implement innovations strategy and to promote new digital products and services of MTS Group.
The partnership agreement envisages working out a plan to develop and deploy Nokia technologies and solutions with resources of MTS and IT-competencies of NVision Group, 100%-owned subsidy of MTS and one of the largest system integrators and IT solution providers in Russia. The new solutions will be used to implement MTS renewed strategy aimed at digitization of products and services, as well as internal business processes of MTS Group.
The parties agreed that while developing new products and services for B2B and B2C customers of MTS Group the companies will focus on testing and implementing Nokia's innovative solutions in such areas as IoT, cloud technologies, digital medicine, e-commerce, augmented and virtual reality, convergent 5G networks.
To modernize infrastructure and optimize MTS Group operations, the parties will test and deploy Nokia's innovative technological solutions in the areas of virtual and software-defined networks, common customer service platform, IMS platform, transport networks and software development.
This agreement complements the MTS-Nokia agreement signed in May 2016 about cooperation in 5G network technologies in Russia. In the framework of the previous agreement the parties have already tested 5G data transfer and IoT technologies. In 2018 the companies plan to set up a 5G pilot segment at international sports events in Russia.
Valery Shorzhin, VP, Procurement and Administration, MTS
MTS gradually migrates from the classical telecom operator model towards a multi-profile IT-company focused on offering a wide range of innovative digital services for various purposes. I am sure that joint efforts of our companies will accelerate time-to-market for numerous innovative solutions which will be widely used in 5G networks.
Demetrio Russo, VP, Head of Market Unit East Europe, Nokia
Signing of this partnership agreement is an important milestone in the cooperation between our companies enabling us to address with even more efficiency the ambitious objectives of the MTS Group in its way to the digitalization transformation.
