As a major European player in Telecom and Cloud services, the Group is Sewan pursuing its international development by forging new strategic partnerships. It is in Belgium that it has Sewan just taken a new step in its external growth project thanks to the signature of a key partnership with Proximus, Belgium's incumbent operator.
The acceleration of development Sewan at the European level took shape in November 2019 with the acquisition of 3StarsNet in Belgium, a first step in the creation of a local physical network. Since then, the group has been mobilised to develop its services and business model for companies wishing to simplify their communications. will now be Sewan able to count on Proximus' expertise and mastery of the Belgian market to develop its projects.
Thanks to this new partnership, will be Sewan able to rely on mobile infrastructures, FTTHProximus' Fibre, xDSL to provide its hosted telephony, mobile telephony, access links and hosting services to its Belgian customers.
A two-pronged international development strategy
"We have a two-pronged European development strategy: acquisitions on the one hand and strategic partnerships on the other. The two are linked. This is how we addressed the Spanish market after the acquisition of Vozelia in 2016 and the results are there today", explains David Brette, Associate Director of Sewan.
The group Sewan has every intention of duplicating the Spanish model in Belgium. The partnership with Proximus will enable the group to Sewanbe operational and to deploy its services quickly, thanks to a solid foundation. "Proximus is an obvious choice with its position on the Belgian market and its quality of service," added David Brette.
Sewan becomes MVNO by relying on the Proximus network
The agreement signed between the two entities places particular emphasis on mobile. Indeed, this partnership offers the Sewan possibility of using the Proximus network as a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) and thus offer services for mobile B2B, which will be integrated into the unified communications and convergence offers of Sewan.
"By choosing Proximus, we Sewan recognise and highlight not only the quality of our network, but also our very competitive offer. We want to build a long-term relationship with Sewana very differentiating operator," said Geert Standaert, Chief Network Business Unit at Proximus.
Easily integrate Proximus infrastructures into services Sewan
Proximus" has worked closely with us to efficiently integrate their infrastructure with our value-added services. We are now ready to jointly create value and services in Belgium for all our partners and distributors in Europe", David Brette said.