Source: www.asianage.com

IT and BPO company Mphasis will concentrate on tier II and tier III cities to scale up its operations in the country.

The company, which has almost doubled its strength since its acquisition by EDS in 2006, currently has 28,000 employees in India and is planning to add another 8,000 employees this year.

Mr Elango R., chief hu-man resource officer, Mphasis said that as the company adds 1,000 employees every month, over the next year, it is targeting to fill up most of its talent requirement from tier II and tier III cities.

Apart from the cost advantage, he said expansion in tier II cities would help the company to tap the largely untapped workforce.

According to a Nasscom report, India’s seven dominant IT cities, where 90 per cent of the 2-million talent pool reside, may see their share slipping to 60-75 per cent if jobs are shifted to tier II and tier III cities.

The company already has its business process outsourcing centres in a few tier II cities and is looking to expand both the BPO and application centre network to Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli, Madurai, Calicut, Kozhikode, Jaipur, Bhuban-eshwar, and Rourkela.

Pointing out that Bangalore, which had been a tier II city until ten years ago, got elevated to the status of a metro by 2005, he said that the company wanted to take the early bird’s advantage.

Source: www.telecomtiger.com

Virgin Mobile USA has signed an agreement with IBM under which the telecom firm will leverage from IBM’s vast telecommunication industry experience and state-of-the-art IT resources.

Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will develop new and differentiated wireless applications and service offerings and also provide Virgin Mobile with data center outsourcing and application management services including maintenance and development.

Commenting on the agreement, Jonathan Marchbank, Chief Operations Officer, Virgin Mobile USA said “With over 5 million customers, the scale we”ve achieved now puts us in a position to take advantage of IBM’s proven best practices, scope and unparalleled experience in running and building IT infrastructure.”