Telenor Sweden Assures Network Quality for Fixed and Mobile Broadband With Netrounds

STOCKHOLM, December 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Telenor Sweden has selected Netrounds as a solution to assure network quality of fixed and mobile broadband services. Netrounds' solution allows Telenor to monitor network performance from a quality perspective and quickly troubleshoot quality-sensitive business services. 

Telenor Sweden has signed a five-year contract with Netrounds Solutions to further enhance its Service Operations in the specific area of network quality.

- The service quality we provide for our customers is paramount to us. We need to have full control of how our networks perform and how our customers experience different services. The Netrounds team has shown great expertise in this field and provided a flexible and innovative cloud-based solution that meets our needs both for monitoring and troubleshooting. Additionally, the added radio functionality will enable Telenor to capture the full range of access technologies, says Emil Hansen, Head of Infrastructure & Operations of Telenor Sweden.

Working with Netrounds is nothing new to Telenor Sweden as the company is already using the solution within the Networks organization. The new deployment is an expansion to an industrialized level in order to meet the scale of the production environment, which has been both greatly expanded and modernized by Telenor in the last 5 years.

- This marks an important milestone for us and also shows that Telenor is a forward-thinking company, open to embrace new technologies from new innovative companies like us. We are changing our industry in a groundbreaking way and will help Telenor to set them apart from their competition, says Mats Nordlund, CEO and co-founder of Netrounds Solutions.

About Telenor Sweden

Telenor Sweden is a provider of tele, data and media communication services. With some 2.5 million subscriptions, revenues of SEK 12.1 billion in 2013, and a workforce of approximately 2,000 employees, the company is one of Sweden's major operators. Telenor Sweden includes the fully owned subsidiaries Bredbandsbolaget, Glocalnet, Vimla, Open Universe and Ownit.

About Netrounds 

Netrounds Solutions is a provider of cloud-based network performance assurance tools. The company's solutions are used by hundreds of network operators, service providers and enterprises to ensure network performance and user experience of IP-based services such as Internet, TV, phone and other business services. Netrounds was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Lulea, Sweden with offices in Boston, USA.

For further information, please contact:
Emil Hansen, Head of Infrastructure & Operations, Telenor Sweden,
tel. +46-70-833-16-85, emil.hansen@telenor.com

Mats Nordlund, Chief Executive Officer, Netrounds Solutions,
tel. +46-70-634-60-20, mats.nordlund@netrounds.com