CASE STUDY: Comarch Fault Management Supports Orange and T-Mobile’s Infrastructure Sharing Initiative in Poland
NetWorkS!
In July 2011 two main Polish operators, PTC (the operator of T-Mobile Poland) and PTK Centertel (the operator of Orange Poland) entered a 15-year agreement for sharing the mobile access network. The joint venture company, NetWorkS!, was formed by the two operators to manage and develop their consolidated 2G/3G network now and 4G network in the future, with the aim of enhancing network coverage and quality. Taking into account that both partners are also competing on the service level, one of the main challenges of this project was how to secure alignment between the shared Fault Management domain and the Service Assurance domain managed individually by the collaborating (and at the same time competing) parties.