5 September 2018
VODAFONE AND TELECOM ARGENTINA ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
Vodafone and Telecom Argentina today jointly announced a new Partner Market agreement for Argentina.
Under the non-equity agreement Vodafone provides strategic advice to Telecom Argentina and shares global best practice in a range of areas including customer service and retail, technology, IT and procurement.
Vodafone Partner Markets Chief Executive Diego Massidda said: "This partnership allows Telecom Argentina to benefit from Vodafone's international experience and expertise, and access our company's global products and services. I am delighted that Telecom is joining us as one of our Partner Markets and I am looking forward to our relationship growing in the coming years."
Carlos Moltini, CEO of Telecom Argentina, said: "At Telecom Argentina, the customer is the centre of all our decisions. That's why we have decided to work with Vodafone to strengthen our business strategies, drawing on Vodafone's experience to offer our customers a wide range of services to a high international standard. Vodafone's expertise also adds value to the proposals we are planning to deploy in the future."
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About Vodafone Group
Vodafone Group is one of the world's largest telecommunications companies and provides a range of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications. Vodafone Group has mobile operations in 25 countries, partners with mobile networks in 46 more, and fixed broadband operations in 18 markets. As of 30 June 2018, Vodafone Group had 534.5 million mobile customers and 19.9 million fixed broadband customers, including India and all of the customers in Vodafone's joint ventures and associates. For more information, please visit: www.vodafone.com.
About Vodafone Partner Markets
Vodafone's Partner Markets team works to form strategic alliances with operators all over the world, partnering to offer a range of global products and services that extend Vodafone's reach into local markets. Vodafone Partner Market agreements vary from roaming and service resale to full partner branding. Established in 2002, Vodafone Partner Markets now partners with 30 companies in 46 countries.
About Telecom Argentina
Telecom Argentina is one of the Argentina's leading telecommunication companies that was born from the union of two large Argentine companies: Telecom and Cablevisión.
This new company keeps transforming the digital experience of its customers by offering a secure, flexible and dynamic service, in different kind of devices, with fixed and mobile high-speed connections, through an integrated content platform.
With a strategic plan focused on the deployment of state-of-the-art technology and unified systems, the Company is investing US$ 5,000 million between 2018 and 2020 to consolidate a better and more sustainable infrastructure.
Through its commercial brands, Telecom Argentina offers fixed and mobile telephony, data transmission, pay television and Internet services for individuals, companies and governments throughout the country. Telecom also offers mobile service in Paraguay and pay television in Uruguay.
