Vodafone Fiji and Tahiti Sign Service deal

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Vodafone Tahiti has signed a one year service agreement with Vodafone Fiji. This will leverage Vodafone Fiji’s depth in industry experience and know-how to optimise Vodafone Tahiti’s return on investment.
Vodafone Fiji chief executive, Pradeep Lal, has hit the road running securing his first major contract within the first week of his appointment as the new CEO of the company.
Vodafone Tahiti CEO, Patrick Moux, said “Vodafone Fiji has an enviable and proven track record in mobile telecommunications industry in Fiji.
“Particularly impressive is their fast to market rollout of new network technologies and related products and service. They have successfully defended their turf in a post-competitive environment with a strong grip on majority market share after 6 year of full competition.
“We are very fortunate to have signed this service agreement with Vodafone Fiji and are quite keen to adopt some of their success strategies in our business.”
Mr Lal said: “Over the past two years, many operators in the Pacific have looked at Vodafone Fiji’s business model and success in a post competition environment, and have approached them to assist with their own strategies.
“The services we provide are in all functional areas of a mobile telecommunications business.
“This includes roaming, wholesale, sales, marketing, procurement, engineering and other value added services in which we have the capability and capacity to do so.”
Vodafone growth
Mr Lal said Fiji’s enabling telecommunications industry environment has also had a direct and positive impact on how Vodafone has grown leaps and bounds from 3G to 4G services provider in just the past eight months.
“I wish to commend the Government for shaping a forward looking regulatory environment through policies such as the National Broadband Policy,” Mr Lal said.
The very conducive environment has been the major catalyst for innovation in Fiji compared to some of the other regional island countries.
There are many opportunities that are being created as result of closer strategic relationship through the Pacific Islands Development Forum and through the Melanesian spearhead groups.
The region as a whole is looking to its neighbors for partnerships and alliance to leverage off each other’s strength.
Vodafone Fiji is happy to offer its expertise and know-how in mobile telecommunication network operation to other network operators in the region to create a more vibrant, competitive and robust mobile communications network across the region.
Mr Lal said the mobile telecommunications industry in Fiji is now reaching saturations points and going regional through strategic alliance is an opportunity that Vodafone Fiji finds a good fit with current business model.
“Several regional operators interest in Vodafone’s services has piqued recently and we will be signing up more clients very soon.”
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