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Outsourcing to India again! – Ericsson to serve U.S. clients using workforce in India
- Saturday, November 27, 2010, 7:13
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Ericsson to Build competence in Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Chennai and Pune.
World’s largest telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson, which won a series of large network outsourcing deals in the United States, is looking to its workforce in India to service these deals.
Ericsson’s senior vice president and head of business unit global services Magnus Mandersson told ET that the company had very competent resources in India, where it began its global services business in 2000 in partnership with Bharti Airtel.
Over the last six to seven years, Ericsson has increased its India headcount exponentially to more than 6,500, of which the global services accounts for nearly 3,000. “We’re building competence in Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Chennai and Pune. We will scale up where we are already because we have found a great platform where we can easily reach the competence we need,” he said.
Mr. Mandersson said that over the last one year, global services in India has scaled up from 1,000 employees to 3,000 employees and added ‘if the macro economy and customer success continues, the hiring in the following years would continue to remain at these levels’.
Ericsson recently secured new contracts from leading US carrier Sprint’s CDMA network and a great part of that contract is being serviced out of the India. Mr. Mandersson added that it was the company’s strategy to allow more managed services contracts coming from Asia and North America to be serviced out of India as it had the right age and competence combination.
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