BSNL bestows Amara Raja with ‘Best Telecom Equipment Manufacturer’ award for VRLA Batteries

TT Correspondent | Bangalore | 26 Oct 2009

Amara Raja Batteries Ltd bagged BSNL’s ‘Best Telecom equipment Manufacturer’ award for its VRLA batteries.

VRLA batteries today provide critical back up power for the telecom networks including remote mobile transmission stations spread across the length and breadth of India.

S. Vijayanand, SBU Head – Industrial Batteries, Amara Raja, “It is a great honour to win this recognition from BSNL. This award not just sets the benchmark but also inspires us to continue our focus on research and customer service to better serve our customers. We are proud to have partnered BSNL with our VRLA battery technology with the “ready to install and use” feature which has enabling faster roll out of mobile network infrastructure. Batteries continue to play a critical role in keeping the uptime of telecom networks near 100%. As the rural network expands bringing more and more remote locations into the connectivity grid, batteries will gain more importance from this perspective.”

Jay Galla, Managing Director, responding to the award thanked BSNL for bestowing the recognition. Recollecting the initial experience of pioneering the VRLA technology in India Mr. Galla commented, “We are privileged to receive this recognition from BSNL. When we introduced VRLA technology to India in the early 90s, it was clearly generations ahead of the battery technology used in the country at that time. During our early efforts in establishing VRLA technology, the Department of Telecommunications showed great vision in adopting the new generation battery technology and encouraged us with their support.

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