Brazil's Telemar Signs New Outsourcing Deal with Siemens

Brazil's Telemar awarded a two year contract to Siemens Information and Communication Networks (ICN) division to manage its internal network in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Esp�rito Santo, where the carrier has larger volumes of traffic and subscribers. In addition to the maintenance services provided by Siemens to Telemar since 2001 for local exchanges, as well as the transmission system and accompanying infrastructure, the company is now taking over the maintenance of the carrier's large, traffic-intensive exchanges, gateways, optical backbone and satellite networks, WLL networks, and the entire power and air-conditioning infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed.



Telemar serves nearly 17.5 million telephone lines connected to 4,300 main voice exchanges and has 180,000 data transport ports online. http://www.siemens.com/networks/