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Nokia Siemens Networks B.V. 
Type Besloten Vennootschap Industry Telecommunications Founded 2007 Headquarters Espoo, Finland Area served Worldwide Key people Rajeev Suri (CEO)
Marco Schröter (CFO)
Jesper Ovesen (Chairman)Products Mobile and fixed broadband networks, consultancy and managed services, multimedia technology Revenue 
€ 12.661 billion (2010)Operating income 
€ 686 million (2010)Employees 66,160 (2010) Parent Nokia Oyj (50.1%)
Siemens AG (49.9%)Website www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/ 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.
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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.[1] Nokia Siemens Networks then began full operations on 1 April 2007[2] and has its headquarters in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Nokia Siemens Networks has operations in some 150 countries serving over 600 customers.[3]
In January 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Israeli 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.[4][5] 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.[6][7][8] On July 19, 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks announced it would acquire the wireless-network equipment division of Motorola.[9] 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.[citation needed]
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.[10]
Operations
Nokia Siemens Networks operates in more than 150 countries worldwide and has about 73,000 employees including the joinees from Motorola Net.[11] Most of those employees work in one of the six central hubs around the world, including: Espoo 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,[citation needed] and in Berlin, Germany.[12]
About a quarter of the world's population are connected everyday using NSN infrastructure.[11] 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.[13]
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.[14] 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).[15]
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
- Business
Communication 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[16]
- Chief Executive Officer: Rajeev Suri
- 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 TCI with technology that allowed it to monitor phone calls of its customers.[17]
News reports claimed that the company had provided internet censorship capabilities to the Iranian government.[18] 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.[19]
In July 2009, Iranians sympathetic to the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests began to boycott Nokia products in Iran.[20]
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.[when?][citation needed] 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".[21]
References
- ^ Identityworks: Reviews - 2007 - Nokia Siemens
- ^ Nokia - ShowPressRelease
- ^ "Nokia Siemens Networks Fact Sheet" (PDF). Nokia Siemens Networks. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/NR/rdonlyres/79BA3656-FD19-453F-984C-199A3B8AC79F/0/Factsheet_21March.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- ^ "Nokia Siemens Networks acquires Atrica, Ethernet systems company". Venturebeat. http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/26/nokia-siemens-networks-acquires-atrica-ethernet-systems-company-for-a-loss/. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Nokia Siemens Networks Completes Acquisition of Carrier Ethernet Specialist Atrica". Nokia Siemens Networks. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/global/Press/Press+releases/news-archive/Nokia_Siemens_Networks_Completes_Acquisition_of_Carrier_Ethernet_Specialist_Atrica_Inc.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Nokia Siemens Networks Apertio Acquisition Press Release". Nokia Siemens Networks. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/global/Press/Press+releases/news-archive/Nokia_Siemens_Networks_completes_acquisition_of_subscriber-centric_network_specialist_Apertio.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Apertio Press Release on Nokia Siemens Networks acquisition". Apertio. Archived from the original on March 13, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080313083835/http://www.apertio.com/news-and-events/nsn-apertio. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ "The Register article on Nokia Siemens Networks acquisition of Apertio". The Register News. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/nokia_apertio/. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/technology/20nokia.html Nokia Siemens Agrees to Pay Cash for Division of Motorola
- ^ "Nokia Siemens to cut 17,000 jobs". November 23, 2011. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8761fd8a-15d2-11e1-a691-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1eXmZzDfE.
- ^ a b Company Profile nokiasiemensnetworks.com. Retrieved 2011-04-08
- ^ "Press Release : Munich, Germany – November 11, 2008", www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com (Nokia Siemens Networks), 11 November 2008, http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/sites/default/files/document/NokiaSiemensNetworks_2008_11_11_enFinalStageGermany.pdf
- ^ Nokia in 2010 nokia.com. Retrieved 2011-04-08
- ^ - Show press release
- ^ Nokia - ShowPressRelease
- ^ [1] checked on 15th of February, 2011.
- ^ "Hi-tech helps Iranian monitoring". BBC News. 2009-06-22. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8112550.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- ^ Stelter, Brian; Stone, Brad (2009-06-23). "Web Pries Lid of Iranian Censorship". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23censor.html?hp.
- ^ "Provision of Lawful Intercept capability in Iran", www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com (Nokia Siemens Networks), 22 June 2009, http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/news-events/press-room/press-releases/provision-of-lawful-intercept-capability-in-iran
- ^ Kamali Dehghan, Saeed (2009-07-14). "Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration'". The Guardian (London: Guardian News and Media Limited). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/14/nokia-boycott-iran-election-protests. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
- ^ "Clarification on Nokia Siemens Networks’ business in Iran", www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com (Nokia Siemens Networks), 28 September 2010, http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/news-events/press-room/clarification-on-nokia-siemens-networks-business-in-iran
External links
- Official Nokia Siemens Networks international website
- Nokia Siemens Networks corporate blog
- Nokia Corporation
- Siemens AG
- Connectivity Scorecard website
- Round the world connected website
Siemens Divisions and
subsidiariesCurrentEnergy Sector (Siemens Wind Power · Solel) · Industry Sector (Siemens Milltronics Process Instruments · Siemens Mobility · Siemens PLM Software · Siemens VAI · Osram · Osram Sylvania) · Siemens Financial Services · Siemens Healthcare (Siemens Hearing Instruments) · Siemens Limited · Siemens PakistanFormer and defunctAcuson Corporation1 · C. A. Parsons and Company1 · Dispolok2 · Helios AG2 · Infineon Technologies2 · Roke Manor Research Limited2 · Siemens Communications1 · Siemens Dematic2 · Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices2 · Siemens IT Solutions and Services2 · Siemens mobile2 · Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme2 · Siemens Plessey2 · Siemens VDO2 · Wincor Nixdorf2 · ROLM1Joint ventures and
shareholdingsCurrentA2SEA (49%) · AREVA NP (34%) · Atos (15%) · BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte (Gaggenau Hausgeräte · NEFF · Pitsos) (50%) · German Shanghai Metro Group · Nokia Siemens Networks (49.9%) · Siemens Enterprise Communications (51%)Former and defunctPredecessors Products, services
and projectsCurrentFINEX · Locomotives · Multiple units · Siemens Modular Metro · Software products · Tram vehicles · Transportation Systems projectsDefunctPeople Wilfried Feldenkirchen · Joe Kaeser · Karlheinz Kaske · Klaus Kleinfeld · Peter Löscher · Bernhard Plettner · Heinrich von Pierer · Jim Reid-Anderson · Erich Reinhardt · Ernst von Siemens · Carl Friedrich von Siemens · Carl Heinrich von Siemens · Hermann von Siemens · Peter von Siemens · Werner von Siemens · Georg Wilhelm von Siemens · Carl Wilhelm Siemens · Gerd TackePlaces Other Siemens Competition · Siemens Foundation · Siemens Open · Siemens scandal (1914) · Siemens scandal (2008) · Werner von Siemens Ring
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