By Lisa Burroughes, 15 October 1998 00:20
NEWS Cable & Wireless (C&W) has won a $300m contract to provide voice and data services to US outsourcing company ServiceNet. The four-year contract makes ServiceNet the UK telco's largest corporate customer. C&W will provide a data-over-IP network and voice-only VPN (virtual private network) services in over 40 countries. ServiceNet is a joint venture between Andersen Consulting and GTE Corp that outsources the process by which data is fed from desktop applications onto the wide area network. C&W will provide the telecoms links for those contracts, which Robin Beesley, vice president of ServiceNet relations for C&W global management, said is aimed to "make desktop applications into a utility available for corporates". Beesley added: "This is effectively Andersen Consulting outsourcing its telecoms to C&W, but it also enables ServiceNet to procure data networking services on behalf of Andersen Consulting, with C&W providing the telecoms." C&W won the contract over telcos including France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Sprint.
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