Vodafone Thought (Vi) has expanded its strategic partnership with Ericsson to modernise its postpaid companies and strengthen its ongoing Community community enlargement throughout India, the businesses stated in joint assertion on Monday, March 2, 2026.
Vi Community Enlargement Throughout 10 Circles
Since 2024, Ericsson has deployed new 5G and 4G websites for Vi, undertaken layer additions at present places and rolled out Excessive-Efficiency Small Cell (HPSC) towers throughout 10 telecom circles. The collaboration will proceed to concentrate on the deployment and integration of latest community websites, capability augmentation and protection enlargement, geared toward bettering indoor protection and enhancing total information capability.
Cloud-Native Charging for Postpaid Progress
Ericsson stated that, constructing on the profitable migration of tons of of hundreds of thousands of Vi pay as you go subscribers to Ericsson Charging in 2023, Vodafone Thought has now chosen cloud-native Ericsson Charging to assist and broaden its postpaid subscriber base. The transfer marks a big enlargement of Ericsson’s footprint inside Vi, positioning it as a significant pan-India provider of on-line charging options for each pay as you go and postpaid clients.
AI-Pushed Telco IT Transformation
Ericsson stated “The brand new settlement additionally empowers Vi with a number of new Ericsson Telco IT AI Apps, giving it larger management and suppleness over its Charging platform and making certain it may ship dependable, environment friendly and future-proof companies to its subscribers. Vi will leverage AI purposes together with Anomaly Detection for Charging Purposes, Order Fallout Detection and Prediction, Capability Forecast for Telco Cloud Stack and Clever Utilization Evaluation for Charging to reinforce service supply, enhance buyer expertise, and drive effectivity.”
Convergent Charging for 5G Readiness
As a part of the transformation, Vi will improve its legacy offline charging and ranking functionalities of billing resolution to Ericsson’s Convergent Charging System, enabling real-time charging for voice, VoLTE, SMS and information companies throughout shopper and enterprise segments. The brand new system is designed to be scalable, versatile and cost-efficient, permitting sooner rollout of latest choices whereas bettering buyer expertise.
“The improve will enhance operational effectivity and buyer expertise and assist put together Vi’s community for 5G Standalone going ahead,” the assertion stated.
Operational Effectivity and Quicker Service Launches
The convergent charging resolution complies with TM Discussion board’s Open Digital Structure and incorporates open APIs, enabling catalogue-driven product configuration and built-in charging and coverage management. The deployment is anticipated to scale back operational expenditure and the flexibility to assist superior and personalised product choices sooner or later.
Jagbir Singh, Chief Know-how Officer, Vodafone Thought stated, “We’re trying ahead to additional strengthening our longstanding partnership with Ericsson. The simplification and advantages of cloud-native Ericsson Charging will assist us future-proof our structure, enabling us to fulfill the calls for of at this time’s digital surroundings and tomorrow’s 5G wants as Indians embrace this new period of connectivity. Vi clients will acquire entry to real-time account info and superior provides, serving to us ship world-class buyer experiences leveraging AI to attain operational efficiencies and drive development.”
Andres Vicente, CEO, Southeast Asia, Oceania and India, Ericsson says, “Our deep understanding of Vi’s enterprise is mirrored within the nice service to clients we work so intently collectively to ship. We’re delighted to broaden our collaboration by deploying Ericsson Charging to modernize Vi’s postpaid ranking and charging functionalities from offline to actual time ranking and charging mannequin. The scalable, AI pushed resolution will assist Vi modernize operations and expedite the deployment of next-generation companies.”
The most recent settlement additional deepens the longstanding partnership between Vi and Ericsson because the telecom operator seeks to strengthen its aggressive place within the Indian market.
