BANGALORE, India -- Motorola Inc. and offshore outsourcing vendor Wipro Ltd. last week disclosed plans to form a joint venture that will offer network management services to telecommunications companies, government agencies and corporate users.

The joint venture, called WMNetServ, will handle customers' network planning, deployment, optimization, security, operations and support, said A.L. Rao, Wipro's chief operating officer. The new company will run a global network operations center in Delhi that will be integrated with Motorola's operations centers in North America and Europe.

Bangalore-based Wipro will own a majority stake in WMNetServ through Wipro Technologies, its IT services unit, Rao said. He didn't reveal the total investments that Wipro and Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola will make in the joint venture or a timetable for starting up the new company. "That will depend on a business plan, which is still being formulated," he said.

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