Nokia Siemens Networks
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Nokia Siemens Networks

Type	Joint venture
Founded	2007
Headquarters	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 2007³ 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

General

Nokia Siemens Networks operates in approx. 150 countries worldwide, and has about 60,000 employees. Its major manufacturing sites are in China, Finland, Germany and India. About 1 billion people are connected through its networks.

The customer base of Nokia Siemens Networks includes 1,400 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

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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

• Chairman: Olli Pekka Kallasvuo
• Vice Chairman: Rudi Lamprecht
• Juha Äkräs
• Joe Kaeser
• Eduardo Montes
• Niklas Savander
• Rick Simonson

Executive Board

• Chief Executive Officer: Simon Beresford-Wylie
• Chief Market Operations Officer (CMO): Christoph Caselitz
• Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Designate: Luca Maestri
• Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Eric Simonsen
• Chief Operating Officer (COO): Mika Vehviläinen
• Head of Corporate Communications: Barry French
• Head of Corporate Affairs: Lauri Kivinen
• General Counsel: Kirsi Komi
• Head of Strategy and Business Development: Michael Matthews
• Head of Operations: Herbert Merz
• Head of Human Resources: Bosco Novák
• Head of Corporate Development Office: Pekka Soini
• Head of Services: Rajeev Suri

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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References

External links

• Nokia Siemens Networks
• Nokia Corporation
• Siemens AG
• Nokia Siemens Networks Global Unite website
• Nokia Siemens Networks Global Communications Connectivity Scorecard website

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