DC09-385 2 December 2009
BT and BSNL partner to offer industry leading global conferencing solutions to Indian corporates
Today BT, one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services, and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), India's largest public sector communications company, have partnered to offer Global Conferencing Solutions.
BSNL is expanding its “Managed Enterprise Business solutions” offering and has now partnered with BT to provide the world’s best audio and web conferencing solutions to its customers.
The solution has unique differentiators and supports multiple dial-ins in a single conference. The audio conference solution is integrated with web-conferencing to support real-time and interactive discussions. There can be 40 concurrent dial-ins from any country across the globe in a single virtual conferencing supporting audio and web. Each of these dial-ins locations can have multiple users in the conference.
BT and BSNL engaged on their managed services journey after signing a MoU. As part of this agreement, BT and BSNL have been working jointly on large customer opportunities in India whereby BSNL utilises their country-wide telecom infrastructure with BT providing its best practices to design, offer and support seamless customer solutions to enterprises for end-to-end service delivery.
Shri Kuldeep Goyal, CMD of BSNL said of this rollout, “The greatest strength of these new services is found in the strong domestic reach provided by BSNL coupled with the global coverage enabled by BT’s network. This deepening partnership enables our customers to collaborate easily with their domestic and international users, partners and vendors, wherever they are in the world. It also helps our customers manage and reduce costs, improve productivity and helping to create a greener environment.” He stressed, “A unique selling point of this service is the ability for each participant to dial in locally from their respective country.”
Mr Sudhir Narang, Managing Director BT India said of today’s launch, “We see this announcement as the next step of our growing partnership with BSNL and the first of many such product roll-outs. India is an extremely important market for BT as most of our global multi-site customers have large footprints in country and are expanding rapidly in the fast growing Indian market. We also serve Indian enterprises who are taking their business to a regional and global audience. This announcement today will allow these customers to benefit from our easy to use, cost effective and fully supported Conferencing services.”
The BT solutions to be rolled-out will allow BSNL to deliver the latest conferencing technologies in the Indian market which will help increase business efficiency for enterprises while also providing for a greener environment by increasing collaboration and reducing the need for corporate travel.
This audio conferencing service allows groups to meet quickly and easily by dialing into a set phone number and using set passcodes. This service is like a virtual meeting room, available 7x24x365 with full time helpdesk support. There is no set-up required and no need to book in advance – just call a telephone number.
Web-Conferencing, a part of this service, is an efficient collaboration tool that enables one of the people involved in a conference call to share the applications and/or documents on their computer with all other participants, adding a visual element to the meeting.
