Vodafone to provide Petrom with communications infrastructure

Vodafone Romania will provide Petrom with a nationwide communications and services infrastructure on the basis of a partnership the two companies signed yesterday, reads a release sent by the mobile telephony operator. “The complexity of services makes this partnership a real challenge for both sides. Vodafone Romania provides this type of services to more than 5,000 major companies of Romania that operate in various domains and industries,” stated Vodafone Romania’s chief executive officer, Liliana Solomon. Petrom’s financial manager, Reinhard Pichler, stated the company was undergoing a modernisation process and it started investing massively in all its activities, including new communications technologies. “The investment covers IT infrastructure, applications and organisation and the respective services and is intended to boost the efficiency of and improve Petrom’s financial and business processes. The new infrastructure will ensure an entirely new quality of communication and of the way Petrom’s various units and departments collaborate,” stated Pichler. Vodafone Romania will develop Petrom’s communications infrastructure by implementing an MPLS virtual private network that is going to connect over 800 locations. The value of the contract has not been disclosed. Part of UK’s Vodafone group, Vodafone Romania had over 6.73 million customers at the end of June.