Nokia Siemens Networks Strengthens Position in India

India became one of the world's largest telecoms market. This is because the number of GSM users is very large. Market deployment of 3G and TD-LTE grew quite rapidly there. As a result, the need for a robust telecommunications infrastructure.

To meet this requirement, the largest international manufacturer of telecommunications infrastructure in India, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to expand manufacturing facilities Chennai (Oragadam) from 35.000m2 be 55.000m2, and increasing the number of product lines to 33.

This expansion also opens opportunities for companies to produce and distribute products and LTE Multi radio new ones, such as 3G and LTE base stations and radio Flyspecked.

"This expansion will strengthen India's position as one of our production centers in Asia Pacific," said Ashish Chowdhary (Head of the East India and Customer Operations, Nokia Siemens Networks).

Since the facility opened in 2008, NSN has invested $ 70 million (50 million Euros) in the Chennai facility and has held more than 860 thousand units to date. The facility also plays an important role in supporting Indian operators to roll out 3G networks quickly and make the NSN into infrastructure vendors and leading international 3G mobile services in India with market share of around 30 percent.

Currently, Nokia Siemens Networks also continues to invest in Global Network Solutions Center (GNSC) in Chennai, which now support 10 times the number of customers on behalf of operators around the world than in 2007 when it first launched GNSC.