TCS wins Rs 574cr deal from BSNL

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today announced a Rs 574 crore ($ 140 million) deal with BSNL.

TCS will provide BSNL a comprehensive range of services to enable the transformation of existing systems and processes to next generation convergent billing system.

TCS will lead manage the overall engagement along with a large team of hardware, software and application partners. The multi-year engagement involves setting up of complex data networks across the BSNL footprint in North and West India, and includes deployment of operational support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) components such as customer relationship management and billing.

"The engagement with BSNL is testimony to TCS' ability to help customers experience certainty by leveraging our superior capabilities in systems integration using cutting-edge technologies as well as strong domain knowledge in the telecom sector," said S Ramadorai, CEO and MD, TCS.

"TCS will leverage its assets, frameworks, development processes, best practices and prior experience of similar engagements to deliver the next generation of services to the biggest telecom service provider in India and help BSNL deliver certainty to its end users," said N Chandrasekaran, head, global sales and operations, TCS.