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By 2015, we expect ve billion people to be connected via mobile, wireless broadband or xed
broadband, opening up unprecedented opportunities for communications service providers. Posi-
tioning our customers to realize this potential, we’re working with them to develop trailblazing
technologies and business models that are spawning innovative solutions and strategies for suc-
cess. We’re also helping customers streamline their business processes to achieve greater opera-
tional efciency, higher margins and faster-than-market growth.
One of the many ways we’re connecting people is with Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connec-
tion. This award-winning GSM- and IP-based network solution is designed specically for rural
village communities in emerging markets where the rollout and operation of a traditional GSM
network would be too costly. As well as being highly cost-effective, Village Connection is easy
to deploy and operate. What’s more, its novel franchise-based business model makes rural cover-
age a viable proposition for operators and village entrepreneurs – bringing the benets of mobile
voice and Internet connectivity to people living in remote villages.
Nokia Siemens Networks collaborates closely with both Siemens and Nokia to offer end-to-end
solutions for communications service providers as well as public and corporate customers in vari-
ous industries. Working together, we combine our reliable, secure communications products,
technologies and services to create comprehensive solutions specically tailored to our customers’
needs.
Nokia Siemens Networks
Simon Beresford-
Wylie
CEO
www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com
We’re one of the world’s largest telecommunications infra-
structure companies. With our workforce of 60,000 people,
we’re maintaining our leadership position in all key inter-
national markets by empowering our customers to tap the
potential of a networked world.