Tarantula joins TM Forum

New Delhi, India – May 10, 2012 – Tarantula is now a corporate member of TM Forum, a global, non-profit industry association focused on enabling service provider agility and innovation. With more than 230 of the world's leading service providers as members, TM Forum represents more than 85% of the global communications market.

As an established thought-leader in service creation, management and delivery, TM Forum serves as a unifying force across industries, enabling more than 900 member companies to solve critical business issues through access to a wealth of knowledge, intellectual capital and standards.

The Tarantula Site Management Platform (site-share.com) has been the leading infrastructure lifecycle management solution in the telecommunications industry for over 10 years. More than 300,000 mobile towers and assets worth over $25 billion USD are being managed on this platform, globally. The platform has been trusted and proven for managing tower infrastructure by telecom service providers and telecom infrastructure companies since 2001.

Ravi Kuppan, CEO of Tarantula said, “TM Forum is a powerful platform to collaborate, partner and network with the global telecom service provider community. Tarantula has been providing innovative solutions to the telecom sector since 2001. Our association with TM Forum will help us strengthen our position as the leading provider of telecom focused infrastructure lifecycle management solutions.”

Tarantula is committed to standardization of solution delivery processes, to improve business performance and establish a proven approach to operations and integration. Being a TM Forum member, Tarantula will now have the opportunity to help shape the future of critical industry standards by participating in the TM Forum collaboration community.