DELHI, India -- Nokia Siemens Networks today inaugurated a new Global Network Solutions Center (GNSC). The latest GNSC, located in Noida, Delhi NCR, is part of the company’s strategic response to the growing trend for operators to outsource network management and maintenance as a way to increase efficiency.

At the inauguration, Simon Beresford Wylie, CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks said, “Nokia Siemens Networks is no longer just a telecom equipment vendor, but a true business operations partner for communications service providers. Our services business lies at the heart of the transformation underway at our company, and India lies at the heart of our services success.”

“Both Nokia Siemens Networks’ transformation and our commitment to India as a significant part of a global telecoms ecosystem are encapsulated by this new Global Network Solutions Center,” Beresford-Wylie said.

The new GNSC, co-located in a new dedicated services facility, reinforces India as the company’s global services hub. Present at the inauguration were Mr. Siddhartha Behura, Secretary Telecom, Government of India; Ms. Daniele Smadja, Her Excellency The Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Commission; Mr. Asko Numminen, His Excellency The Ambassador of Finland; and Rajeev Suri, Head of Services, Nokia Siemens Networks.

“We are pioneering what we truly feel is a unique, centralized, global delivery model through our integrated, multi-technology, multi vendor central delivery hubs – what we call the GNSCs – which provide global scale and drive the world’s most efficient networks,” said Rajeev Suri, Head of Services, Nokia Siemens Networks.

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