Saint-Gobain Isover Oy

"The migration of our voice communications to the data network has improved both the flow of information and the reachability.", says Managing Director Pekka Rantamäki of Saint-Gobain Isover Oy.

"Approximately half of our revenues comes from the former Soviet Union where the quality and prices of the voice connections used to be a problem. We had to find a solution to that."

"In Russia, it used to be difficult to reach the personnel, and communication in general was a problem, as the calls often suffered from bad connections. That became a real problem for us. We had just renewed our operations management system and copied it for our subsidiaries in Russia. That made us think whether we could find a solution also to our voice connections based on the same system"

Sonera provided a total solution

"Our IT manager mapped the domestic and foreign alternatives. Sonera was the only supplier that was able to provide a total solution that meets our needs. And one that works - also in Russia. We had previous good experience of cooperation with Sonera. For instance in Finland, we solved our field salespersons' wireless connections to our information systems with palmtop computers."

"Now our voice traffic in Russia runs over the data network, and as a consequence, communication and personnel reachability have improved considerably. At the same time, our call costs have decreased significantly. Previously, the calls we made from Russia could cost as much as some four euros per minute, but now our calls travel over the data network at a fraction of that price."

Sonera's solution makes peoples and machines work better together

"To put it simply, Sonera's network solution makes both people and machines work better together - at a reasonable price. The flow of information in general has improved tremendously."

Voice communications to data network

• Functioning total solution
• Easier communication
• Better reachability
• Cost savings

Customer's choice

• Customer's own data network
• Communications classification service
• Voice server
• Transmission of data and calls
• Wireless data services