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Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks, today outlined the company’s commitment to transforming mobile networks to cope with the explosion in smart devices. This commitment includes the creation of a “Smartphone Experience Lab” based in Telefónica premises in Madrid. Speaking at the 24th annual Spanish telecoms summit in Santander, Suri also took the opportunity to confirm that Nokia Siemens Networks had received unsolicited expressions of interest from private equity firms due to its recent business momentum.

Mobile broadband subscribers of Movistar Chile, a Telefonica Group company, will soon enjoy higher peak data rates from a more efficient mobile broadband network. The operator has selected Nokia Siemens Networks’ leading HSPA+ technology to improve its network capacity and performance, and prepare for next generation mobile broadband, Long Term Evolution (LTE)*.

Leading Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom will soon be able to offer new, personalized services to its subscribers. The operator is deploying Nokia Siemens Networks’ Subscriber Data Management (SDM) platform to pull together subscriber data that currently resides on multiple databases. The platform will allow Safaricom to gain better insight into the needs and likes of its customers and offer targeted services. The deployment is part of Safaricom’s transition to an all-IP network.

Empower, a leading provider of field engineering and maintenance services to energy, telecom and industrial companies, is implementing Nokia Siemens Networks’ field force management approach. Based on a Software as a Service (SaaS) model,* the approach automatically allocates needed resources to place and schedule work as efficiently as possible. It is expected to help Empower significantly to increase productivity, specifically improving productive field technician and shift manager time.