We recently agreed a new name for company supported employee charity work: Nokia Siemens Networks Uniting communities. This fits nicely with our Unite site that provides information about how we help the world communicate. One of the first initiatives announced as part of our Uniting communities program is “Bridge the gap” in India. We’re entering [...]
The future for mobile in the Middle East
We’re at the GSM > 3G Middle East Congress this week (and if anyone knows how that title should be voiced, please comment. “GSM greater than 3G Middle East Congress,” perhaps?) highlighting the savings operators can make using renewable energy in their mobile networks, as well as how operators should maximise revenue by providing new [...]
Ben Roome / News / 15 December 2008 / 17:37
Leading the pack in APAC
NSN was the winner of Telecom Asia’s first Readers’ Choice Awards of the Wireless Network Vendor of the Year. Christian Fredrikson, Head of APAC region received this award at a ceremony held in Hong Kong on December 8. (See the photo on the right). Telecom Asia organizes the awards to recognize the technology innovations and [...]
Ben Roome / News / 9 December 2008 / 23:32
India’s mobile growth
In some parts of the world, mobile growth can be hard to picture. Take India. In October, India recorded its record growth in GSM subscribers. 7.7 million new users in one month. It’s a handy figure as it works out at just over 10,000 new users every hour. Or almost 3 people a second buying [...]
Ben Roome / News / 8 December 2008 / 15:10
Capital Markets Day
Reading by the Brooklyn Bridge Just down the road from the Brooklyn Bridge, from which some of the world’s most famous man-made views can be seen, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks on Thursday offered a view of another kind: the future of the communications market. More than 500 investors, analysts and journalists attended Nokia’s Capital [...]
Ben Roome / News / 4 December 2008 / 18:17
Optical stuff and what 40G means
A confession: I love optical networks. For some reason, the idea of shining light down a thin hair of glass has held a fascination for me ever since I first read about it as a child. There’s a purity, beauty even, about the binary simplicity of a distant light appearing and disappearing that, as a [...]
Ben Roome / News / 4 December 2008 / 17:57
Professor Leonard Waverman talks about the Connectivity Scorecard
One of the final keynotes at Nokia World 2008, was a presentation from Professor Leaonard Waverman on the Connectivity Scorecard. Len is a visionary speaker and he’s passionate about the efforts government and business need to make so that society can truly benefit from ubiquitous connectivity. In chatting to him before his talk, he was [...]
Ben Roome / News / 3 December 2008 / 19:05
NSN at Nokia World 2008 slideshow
Ben Roome / News / 3 December 2008 / 18:57
Showing off WiMAX in Brazil, helping launch a new MVNO in Poland
This post could really be titled “a typical day in the life of a global telecoms infrastructure, software and services provider”. We issued a couple of news releases today, one about WiMAX being on show in Rio de Janeiro and the other about leading Polish satellite provider Cyfrowy Polsat launching itself as a Mobile Virtual [...]
Ben Roome / News / 3 December 2008 / 17:23
“Driving value in the conected world” – Stephan Scholz
The last stream session from Nokia Siemens Networks at Nokia World 2008 is with Stephan Scholz our Chief Technology Officer. Stephan did a general introduction on our market vision 2015 – the world connected. This is where applications reside predominantly in the Internet, broadband is everywhere, and there will be multitude of business models. In [...]
Ben Roome / News / 3 December 2008 / 16:47
