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For a number of years now, it's been a hot trend to outsource network management operations and as a result, many major wireless vendors have been able to grow rapidly. In the case of commercial mobile phone operators in Australia, however, the primary reason for outsourcing network management is the cheaper operational costs.
It has been suggested that managed services vendors like Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) could soon control the daily wireless network management operations. Indeed, this could perhaps be a trend for Long Term Evolution networks. This sort of outsourcing has been seen through NSN's billion dollar deal with LightSquared, a Long Term Evolution networks company. Interestingly, the deal comes with an outsourcing agreement whereby NSN will manage and monitor the network.