TELEKOM INFRA
PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS
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From day one , Varghese knew that - in order to stay as agile as possible , and maintain the company ’ s startup mentality - Telekom Infra would live or die by the strength of its partnerships . “ We don ' t want to scale up and do everything ourselves ,” he says emphatically . “ That was always a key part of our vision for the company from day one ; we wanted to build our core competency inside the company , and meet all our other needs with our partnerships …”
“ TCS is one of our core partners . They were involved in the post-carve-out when we had to define all our processes and systems , like implementing and testing SAP S / 4 HANA for our ERP . They also helped us set up our IT architecture to be fully future-proof , as well as on a fibre project that we did during the last two years .”
We also partner with Innso , who have a lot of experience working with MNOs and handling the landlords . We have 3,200 locations with more than 2,500 individual landlords that we rent from . They could be farmers , homeowners - anybody really - and it ' s not always easy to engage all of them with our small team . Innso has been very helpful in supporting those relationships which would otherwise be very labour intensive .
We also work with Koning & Hartman . They ' re a large maintenance company that we use to look after our network . We obviously handle quality control and demand management from our side , but they ' re the ones who physically visit the site , climb the towers , and do the repairs .
116 November 2021