Espoo., Finland - Nokia is establishing a new GSM/EDGE test environment in India to support its operator customers in this rapidly growing market. The investment further enhances Nokia's capabilities to serve its operator customers, underscoring Nokia's commitment to India and its millions of GSM subscribers.
The test environment, located in Networks office facilities in India, comprises of Nokia GMS/EDGE radio equipment, circuit and packet core equipment, SMS center and MMS center, as well as a network management system. The system will support Nokia's end-to-end customer care by providing a fully functional testing and simulation environment, and it will also be utilized extensively in customer and partner training in India. The test environment will be fully operational in January 2005.
"This strengthens our service capabilities to support operators in this growing market," says Mr. Ashish Chowdhary, Country Head, India & South Asia, Networks, Nokia. "Services is a growing business segment for Nokia, and this investment is yet another concrete example of our commitment to provide our customers with comprehensive support."
During 2004, Nokia has won four major infrastructure contracts in India, and is now supplying mobile infrastructure to five of the largest operators in India. India is one the world's fastest growing markets in terms of mobile subscriber growth.
Nokia has an extensive portfolio of services, drawing on its over 15 years' of experience in helping operators to plan, deploy, integrate, train, maintain, operate and optimize their networks and mobile services. Nokia has contracted operating services for 21 operators globally, in addition to providing full turnkey implementations for a total of 26 customers in 22 countries. Nokia NetAct(TM) service and network management system has been delivered to over 300 customers, and Nokia has a record of over 60 mobile service management customers globally.
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