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Indian Telecom company Vodafone-Idea signs multi-million dollar deal with IBM
INDIA

Indian Telecom company Vodafone-Idea signs multi-million dollar deal with IBM

NEW DELHI: India's largest telecom operator Vodafone Idea Ltd on Friday announced a five-year multi-million-dollar IT outsourcing deal with tech giant IBM. "This engagement will also contribute to Vodafone Idea's merger synergy objectives by reducing its IT related costs," the telecom firm said in a statement. The company did not divulge the size of the deal but some reports pegged it at about $700 million. "The collaboration will provide Vodafone Idea with a hybrid cloud based digital platform to enable more intimate engagement with its over 387 million subscribers (as of 31 December, 2018), enhancing business efficiency, agility and scale plus simplification of its business processes," it said. The new infrastructure platform will remove constraints to the exponential growth ...
Vodafone Idea Launches a New Safety Service for Women
BUSINESS

Vodafone Idea Launches a New Safety Service for Women

With the increasing need for the safety of women in India, Vodafone Idea has launched a new mobile-based safety service called ‘Vodafone Sakhi’ for women. This service will include features such as emergency alerts, emergency balance and private number recharge. These features will be available for the women customers using Vodafone pre-paid services across the country. This particular service would work across smartphones and feature-phones even without any balance or mobile internet. “India has over a billion mobile connections and almost half of our population is women. Yet, less than 18% of mobile subscribers are women. Further, most women have access to only feature-phones and basic mobile phones. This large gap in mobile access and usage also conveys a lost opportunity to conne...