Nokia shifts managed services hub to India

Category: News | No Comments | Posted on June 19, 2006

Nokia today announced that it was shifting the hub of its global telecom network management services business to India from Finland.

The managed services division of Nokia runs the telecom networks of service providers as part of outsourcing agreements.

Coincidently, Nokia today announced a five-year deal with Hutchison Essar for managing its telecom infrastructure in 10 new circles.

With today’s announcement, the number of circles in which Nokia is managing network for Hutch would go up to 19. In January this year, Nokia had struck a 5-year deal to run network operations in nine areas for Hutchison Essar Ltd.

The company also announced that its first global network solutions centre (GNSC) in Chennai had begun operations in May and would serve as a hub for other Nokia operation centres all over the world.

At present, operations contributed about 30 per cent of the company’s total revenues and the figure would go up over the next few years, he said.

The Chennai GNSC offered a wide variety of services including remote care, remote integration, consulting, planning and optimisation, and was currently supporting operators including Bharti Tele-Ventures.

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