Press releases 2008

Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), India's youngest and fastest-growing telecom service provider, has partnered with Nokia Siemens Networks for its pan-India GSM network rollout. Under the terms of the partnership, Nokia Siemens Networks has been identified as one of the main vendors that will manage the operations of the networks it deploys over a period of five years. Managed services forms just one portion of the vast scope of the deal€”the complete services outlay includes local supplies, network planning, project management, network roll-out and systems integration activities across the national network.

Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks announced their partnership with Save the Children Finland to help alleviate the existing water problem made worse by the current drought in Alaba Special Woreda through collaboration with the Woreda administration and its relevant offices.

Internet communications are going mobile as end users want to have broadband in their pockets and the increased traffic creates a powerful thirst for connectivity, a need for fast and reliable "broadband everywhere". This surge in the worldwide connectivity demand can be both a challenge and an opportunity for the key telecommunication market players and to deliver this ability and be profitable, communications service providers need to quickly determine the right balance in their portfolios that will allow them to meet this rising demand.

Qatar Telecom QSC (“Qtel”, Ticker: QTEL.QA), the leading telecommunications company, took another important stride towards delivering the highest standard of communications infrastructure today, with the completion of an agreement to implement a full network modernization project that will double mobile broadband speeds in Qatar.