Call management could improve at Asian firm after £45m investment

An Asian company may have invested in call management and other hi-tech telecommunications solutions as part of a £45 million project with BT.

CLSA Asia Pacific Markets, which is the continent's leading brokerage and investment group, has signed a deal with the telecommunications provider.

In exchange for approximately £45 million, the firm will receive fully managed voice equipment, data infrastructure and trading systems solutions that can be used across 14 countries in its region.

"We decided to gain the required efficiencies by consolidating our communications and network requirements with a single global partner. Only two or three companies in the world can do what BT does today," explained Thiyagarajah Rajah, chief information officer at CLSA.

As well as deploying state-of-the-art telecommunications, BT will upgrade security systems at the company.

In other industry news, BT has recently spoken of its plans to rollout high-speed broadband across 90 per cent of the UK within the next five to six years.