Brussels, 31 August 2012 – As of today, Mobistar can now also offer fixed telecommunication solutions to its customers in the corporate segment with branches in Europe and the rest of the world, thanks to a contract with Orange Business Services. Like Mobistar, Orange Business Services is a branch of the FT group and has an outstanding worldwide fixed network providing telecommunication solutions to multinational corporations. Through this partnership, Mobistar can offer more services to a wider market segment and strengthen its competitiveness in the professional market.
Today, Mobistar offer its business clientele in the Belgian corporate segment convergent telecommunication solutions through its own IP VPN platform. Via this platform, the different sites of a company are connected to each other over secured channels, in order to provide convergent solutions to the company as a whole and to optimise the costs for mobile and fixed telecommunications.
Orange Business Services, honoured as the best provider of “Global Ethernet services” by Vertical Systems Group in 2011, and winner of an “Award for Best Global Operator for managed services”, has a global footprint and the largest MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) VPN network in the world. Through its collaboration with Orange, Mobistar will expand its IP VPN network with international connectivity in order to extend its professional market offer of fixed data services (data / video / voice) to 180 countries worldwide.
Beyond its home market, Mobistar will now be able to supply medium and large companies with offices in Europe and the rest of the world, including countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China (which, together with Indonesia and South Korea, will represent more than 50% of global economic growth in 2025) with fixed IP VPN connectivity and VAS services (Business Continuity solutions, end-to-end SLA on service availability and performance).
With this agreement, Mobistar can better serve the needs of business customers in the corporate segment for national and international IP services, with a wide range of competitive access methods (DSL, Ethernet, mobile, leased lines, satellite), and will strengthen its competitive position in the professional market.