Nokia Siemens Networks
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Nokia Siemens Networks is a global data networking and telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Espoo
, Finland
. It is a joint venture between Nokia
of Finland and Siemens
of Germany
. It is the second-largest telecom gearmaker globally after Ericsson
.
, Greater Helsinki
, Finland
. Nokia Siemens Networks has operations in some 150 countries serving over 600 customers.
In January 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Israel
i company Atrica, a company that builds carrier-class Ethernet transport systems for metro networks. The official release did not disclose terms, however they are thought to be in the region of $100 million.
In February 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Apertio, Bristol UK-based, a mobile network customer management tools provider for €140 million. With this acquisition Nokia Siemens Networks gained customers in the subscriber management area including Orange, T-Mobile
, O2, Vodafone
and Hutchison 3G
.
On July 19, 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks announced it would acquire the wireless-network equipment division of Motorola. The acquisitions was completed on April 29, 2011 for US $975 million in cash. Approximately 6900 employees will transfer to Nokia Siemens Networks and NSN takes on responsibility for 50 operator customers in 52 countries.
November 2011: To improve profitability by reducing operating expenses and overheads by One billion Euro by the end of 2013, Nokia Siemens Networks will cut 17,000 jobs worldwide or around a quarter of its 74,000 staff.
in Finland
, Munich
in Germany
, Wrocław in Poland
, Delhi
, Hyderabad and Bangalore
in India
, Guangdong
in China
and Lisbon
in Portugal
. Its major manufacturing sites are in Chennai
in India, China, Oulu
in Finland, and in Berlin, Germany.
About a quarter of the world's population are connected everyday using NSN infrastructure. The customer base of Nokia Siemens Networks includes 1,400 customers in over 150 countries (including more than 600 operator customers). Combined 2010 revenues exceed €
12.7 billion
, making the company one of the largest telecommunication
equipment makers in the world.
Rajeev Suri
is the current Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks. In this position he succeeds Simon Beresford-Wylie
, who stepped down (October 1, 2009) after leading the company’s integration. Nokia Siemens Networks' Chief Financial Officer
(CFO) is Marco Schröter. The Chairman of the board of directors
is Nokia's former CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
, vice chairman is Rudi Lamprecht (Executive Advisor to the CEO of Siemens AG).
There are dedicated sales units for each of these areas.
Communication for Service Providers
Public and corporate
Executive Management Team
with technology that allowed it to monitor phone calls of its customers.
News reports claimed that the company had provided internet censorship capabilities to the Iranian government. In June 2009 Nokia Siemens Networks stated that whilst they had provided lawful interception
capable equipment or services to Iran, capable of monitoring local voice calls, they had not provided equipment or services that provided deep packet inspection
capabilities, speech recognition
, internet or network monitoring or web censorship capabilities.
In July 2009, Iranians sympathetic to the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests began to boycott Nokia
products in Iran
.
Former Nokia executive Chip Pitts
has said that issues are raised from the supply of a voice monitoring capability to Iran by Nokia Siemens Networks. In September 2010 Nokia-Siemens stated that it halted work relating to call monitoring in Iran in 2009, having divested its call monitoring business in the same year. It also had limited its activities in Iran and stated that it was ".. aware of credible reports that the Iranian authorities use communications technology to suppress political activity in a way that is inconsistent with that government’s human rights obligations".
, the Nokia Siemens chief executive announced that the company planned to eliminate 17,000 jobs by the end of 2013 to enable Nokia Siemens to refocus on mobile broadband equipment, the fastest-growing segment of the market. The reductions will slash the company’s work force by 23 percent from its current level of 74,000. The cuts follow Nokia Siemens’s $1.2 billion purchase of Motorola’s mobile network equipment business in July 2010, which added staff; and would help the company trim annual operating expenses by $1.35 billion by the end of 2013.
Espoo
Espoo is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is . It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen....
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
. It is a joint venture between Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
of Finland and Siemens
Siemens
Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
of Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is the second-largest telecom gearmaker globally after Ericsson
Ericsson
Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
.
History
The company was created as the result of a joint venture between Siemens Communications 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. Nokia Siemens Networks then began full operations on 1 April 2007 and has its headquarters in EspooEspoo
Espoo is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is . It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen....
, Greater Helsinki
Greater Helsinki
Greater Helsinki and the smaller Helsinki Metropolitan Area or Capital Region refer to two regions of different size surrounding Helsinki, the capital of Finland...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
. Nokia Siemens Networks has operations in some 150 countries serving over 600 customers.
In January 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i company Atrica, a company that builds carrier-class Ethernet transport systems for metro networks. The official release did not disclose terms, however they are thought to be in the region of $100 million.
In February 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Apertio, Bristol UK-based, a mobile network customer management tools provider for €140 million. With this acquisition Nokia Siemens Networks gained customers in the subscriber management area including Orange, T-Mobile
T-Mobile
T-Mobile International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...
, O2, Vodafone
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...
and Hutchison 3G
Hutchison 3G
3 is a brand name under which several UMTS-based mobile phone networks and Broadband Internet Providers are operated in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom...
.
On July 19, 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks announced it would acquire the wireless-network equipment division of Motorola. The acquisitions was completed on April 29, 2011 for US $975 million in cash. Approximately 6900 employees will transfer to Nokia Siemens Networks and NSN takes on responsibility for 50 operator customers in 52 countries.
November 2011: To improve profitability by reducing operating expenses and overheads by One billion Euro by the end of 2013, Nokia Siemens Networks will cut 17,000 jobs worldwide or around a quarter of its 74,000 staff.
Operations
Nokia Siemens Networks operates in more than 150 countries worldwide and has about 73,000 employees including the joinees from Motorola Net. Most of those employees work in one of the six central hubs around the world, including: EspooEspoo
Espoo is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is . It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen....
in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Wrocław in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
, Hyderabad and Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
in China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
and Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. Its major manufacturing sites are in Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
in India, China, Oulu
Oulu
Oulu is a city and municipality of inhabitants in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is one of the northernmost larger cities in the world....
in Finland, and in Berlin, Germany.
About a quarter of the world's population are connected everyday using NSN infrastructure. The customer base of Nokia Siemens Networks includes 1,400 customers in over 150 countries (including more than 600 operator customers). Combined 2010 revenues exceed €
Euro
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
12.7 billion
1000000000 (number)
1,000,000,000 is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.In scientific notation, it is written as 109....
, making the company one of the largest telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
equipment makers in the world.
Rajeev Suri
Rajeev Suri
Rajeev Suri is the Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks since October 1, 2009. He was Head of Services at Nokia Siemens Networks from August 2007 until September 2009. Suri has turned around the troubled Finnish-German gearmaker. From job cuts to massive losses, the equipment maker...
is the current Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks. In this position he succeeds Simon Beresford-Wylie
Simon Beresford-Wylie
Simon Beresford-Wylie is the CEO of Elster Group and the former President and CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks. He was a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia Corporation from 1 February 2005 until 31 October 2009...
, who stepped down (October 1, 2009) after leading the company’s integration. Nokia Siemens Networks' Chief Financial Officer
Chief financial officer
The chief financial officer or Chief financial and operating officer is a corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the corporation. This officer is also responsible for financial planning and record-keeping, as well as financial reporting to higher management...
(CFO) is Marco Schröter. The Chairman of the board of directors
Board of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
is Nokia's former CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo currently chairs the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, and is the former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Nokia, as well former board member for Nokia Siemens Networks.-Career:Kallasvuo joined Nokia in 1980 as Corporate Counsel, and has held...
, vice chairman is Rudi Lamprecht (Executive Advisor to the CEO of Siemens AG).
Business units
Since January 1, 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks has organised its operations within the following three business units:- Business Solutions (BSO)
- Network Systems (NWS)
- Global Services (GS)
There are dedicated sales units for each of these areas.
Products and services
BusinessCommunication for Service Providers
- Customer care support
- Device management
- Fixed-mobile convergence
- Hosting
- Integrated provisioning
- Inventory management
- IPTV
- Mobile backhaul
- Mobile TV
- Outsourcing
- Unified charging and billing
- WCDMA frequency refarming
Public and corporate
- Air and maritime
- Government
- Railway
Corporate affairs
Board of Directors- Chairman: Olli Pekka Kallasvuo
- Peter Y Solmssen
- Timo Ihamuotila
- Joe Kaeser
- Siegfried Russwurm
- Niklas Savander
- Robin Lindahl
Executive Management Team
- Chief Executive Officer: Rajeev SuriRajeev SuriRajeev Suri is the Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks since October 1, 2009. He was Head of Services at Nokia Siemens Networks from August 2007 until September 2009. Suri has turned around the troubled Finnish-German gearmaker. From job cuts to massive losses, the equipment maker...
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Marco Schröter
- Customer Operations(CO) West: Bosco Novák
- Customer Operations(CO) East: Ashish Chowdhary
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO): Hossein Moiin
- Head of Network Systems: Marc Rouanne
- Head of Services: Armando Almeida
- Head of Business Solutions: Amiram Mel
- Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs: Barry French
- Head of Human Resources: Hans-Jürgen Bill
- Head of Operations: Herbert Merz
- Head of Strategy and Business Development: Michael Matthews
- Head of Corporate Development Office: Pekka Soini
- General Counsel: Joyce Norcini
- Head of North America Region: Rick Corker
Iran monitoring controversy
In 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks provided Iran's monopoly telecom company TCITelecommunication Company of Iran
Telecommunication Company of Iran was established in 1971 with a new organizational structure as the main responsible administration for the entire telecommunication affairs, and Iran Telecommunication Industries was also founded in the same year to manufacture the required equipment for the...
with technology that allowed it to monitor phone calls of its customers.
News reports claimed that the company had provided internet censorship capabilities to the Iranian government. In June 2009 Nokia Siemens Networks stated that whilst they had provided lawful interception
Lawful interception
Lawful interception is obtaining communications network data pursuant to lawful authority for the purpose of analysis or evidence. Such data generally consist of signalling or network management information or, in fewer instances, the content of the communications...
capable equipment or services to Iran, capable of monitoring local voice calls, they had not provided equipment or services that provided deep packet inspection
Deep packet inspection
Deep Packet Inspection is a form of computer network packet filtering that examines the data part of a packet as it passes an inspection point, searching for protocol non-compliance, viruses, spam, intrusions or predefined criteria to decide if the packet can...
capabilities, speech recognition
Speech recognition
Speech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
, internet or network monitoring or web censorship capabilities.
In July 2009, Iranians sympathetic to the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests began to boycott Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
products in Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
.
Former Nokia executive Chip Pitts
Chip Pitts
Chip Pitts is the Board President of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and former Chairman of Amnesty International USA.-Career:Pitts is an international attorney, human rights activist, and law educator who lectures on human rights and international business at law schools and universities...
has said that issues are raised from the supply of a voice monitoring capability to Iran by Nokia Siemens Networks. In September 2010 Nokia-Siemens stated that it halted work relating to call monitoring in Iran in 2009, having divested its call monitoring business in the same year. It also had limited its activities in Iran and stated that it was ".. aware of credible reports that the Iranian authorities use communications technology to suppress political activity in a way that is inconsistent with that government’s human rights obligations".
Job cuts
On November 23, 2011, Rajeev SuriRajeev Suri
Rajeev Suri is the Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks since October 1, 2009. He was Head of Services at Nokia Siemens Networks from August 2007 until September 2009. Suri has turned around the troubled Finnish-German gearmaker. From job cuts to massive losses, the equipment maker...
, the Nokia Siemens chief executive announced that the company planned to eliminate 17,000 jobs by the end of 2013 to enable Nokia Siemens to refocus on mobile broadband equipment, the fastest-growing segment of the market. The reductions will slash the company’s work force by 23 percent from its current level of 74,000. The cuts follow Nokia Siemens’s $1.2 billion purchase of Motorola’s mobile network equipment business in July 2010, which added staff; and would help the company trim annual operating expenses by $1.35 billion by the end of 2013.