British Telecommunications Company BT Group Announces Its Partnership With MTN Business
British Telecommunications Company BT Group Announces Its Partnership With MTN Business. British telecommunications company BT Group has announced a strategic alliance which will offer world class security and communications services to business customers across Africa. The two leading operators will collaborate closely to enhance each other’s strengths.
Alessandro Adriani, indirect sales director, BT, said in a statement, “The world’s leading banks, healthcare providers, energy companies and governments put their trust in BT to connect and secure their operations. We look forward to working with MTN to bring the same cutting-edge services and solutions to businesses across the African continent.” Launched in 1994, MTN South Africa is a subsidiary of MTN Group, a leading emerging market operator with a clear vision to lead the delivery of a bold new digital world to our customers. It wants to make sure that customers will benefit from BT’s leading-edge technology combined with its strong presence on the ground and proximity to customers.
BT Group is the UK’s leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions and services. The company also provides managed telecommunications, security and network and IT infrastructure services to customers across 180 countries. BT Group consists of four customer-facing units: Consumer serves individuals and families in the UK; Enterprise and Global are its UK and international business-focused units respectively; Openreach is an independently governed, wholly owned subsidiary, which wholesales fixed access infrastructure services to its customers – over 650 communication providers across the UK.
The first offering by BT and MTN will be a Security Operations Centre (SOC)-service, which will enable customers to consistently monitor and improve their cyber-security while preventing, detecting, analysing, and responding to cyber-security incidents. The new service is based on BT’s cloud-based Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) service, which combines the leading technologies with BT’s unparalleled track record in securing leading global organisations.
