Nokia Siemens Networks

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Nokia Siemens Networks
Type Joint venture
Founded 2007
Headquarters Flag of Finland Espoo, Finland
Key people Simon Beresford-Wylie, CEO
Eric Simonsen, CFO
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Chairman
Industry Telecommunications
Parent Nokia Oyj (50%)
Siemens AG (50%)
Website nokiasiemensnetworks.com

Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications solutions suppliers in the world. Nokia Siemens Networks was created as the result of a joint venture between Siemens AG's COM division (minus its Enterprise business unit) and Nokia's Network Business Group.

The new company was announced on 19 June 2006. Nokia Siemens Networks was officially launched at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in February 2007[1] [2]. Nokia Siemens Networks then began full operations on 1 April 2007[3] and has its headquarters in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland, while the West-South Europe headquarters and three of its five divisions are based in Munich, Germany. The Services division is based in India. Nokia Siemens Networks has operations in some 150 countries.[4]

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General

Nokia Siemens Networks operates in approx. 160 countries worldwide, and has 60,000 employees. It's major manufacturing sites are in China, Finland, Germany and India. About 1 billion people are connected through it's switches.

The customer base of NSN includes 1,400 enterprise customers in 150 Countries.

It is foreseen that, at a combined 2005 revenue of more than 15 billion, the new company would be one of the largest telecommunication equipment makers in the world.

Simon Beresford-Wylie, the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Nokia’s Networks unit was appointed as the new company's first Chief Executive Officer (CEO). On 1st June 2007 Eric Simonsen replaced Peter Schönhofer after 2 months in office as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The Chairman of the board of directors is Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, vice chairman is Rudi Lamprecht (Executive Advisor to the CEO of Siemens AG).[5]


NSN Munich

Organisation

Business Units

The main Business Units of Nokia Siemens Networks are

 1) Radio Access
 2) Broadband Access
 3) Converged Core
 4) IP Transport
 5) Operations and Business Software
 6) Services

The Board of Directors

Executive Board

Nokia Siemens Networks Business Acquisitions

  • In January 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Atrica, a company who builds carrier-class Ethernet transport systems for metro networks. The official release did not release terms, however they are thought to be in the region of $100million.

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  • In Feburary 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Apertio, Bristol UK based, a mobile network customer management tools provider for €140 million. With this acqusition Nokia Siemens Networks gained customers in the subscriber management area such including Orange, T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone.[8]

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