Ericsson Wins IMS Contract with O2 Germany

Ericsson has been selected to provide Telefónica O2 Germany with an IMS core system with an IMS-based VoIP application server. These two contracts include hardware deployment and software systems integration services. Ericsson will also integrate in Germany O2's VoIP application server using IMS, making services such as IP Centrex, business trunking or presence functionality available to all fixed and mobile users.

Andrea Folgueiras CTO Telefónica O2 Germany, says: "With IMS, we can advance the conversion of our current systems into more cost-effective and higher performance multimedia networks that can make optimal use of ever-increasing bandwidths. We based our decision to have Ericsson as a partner for IMS on the good experience from our joint projects in Spain and other countries."

IMS offers the level of intelligence required in next-generation networks to offer all users broadband multimedia services at any location, independent of the access network they are connected to, using a wide variety of different devices. Introduction of IMS and use of a common platform also means reduced costs for network providers for new applications and network operations as a whole.

The operator ended the first quarter of 2009 with a shade over 15.6 million subscribers. According to the Mobile World analysts, this makes the operator the smallest in the country.

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Posted to the site on 22nd June 2009