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surge in infrastructure investment by telecom operators last year is powering
the growth for Nortel's, next-generation wireless network and enterprise
business. Strong economic growth coupled with market deregulation gave impetus
to its expansion plans in India, Pakistan, and ASEAN. Nortel is proactively
responding to these developments. The company is plannnig to manufacture base
stations in India and it will be bolstered by orders from BSNL and MTNL.
Last year Nortel bagged a $500 million deal to expand the BSNL's GSM/GPRS
networks in the east and south zones. The network will enable seven million
lines during the first half of the year for BSNL. It also deployed optical
backbone infrastructure for Reliance Infocomm, Bharti, and GAIL among others. It
is also deploying a CDMA network for Reliance in Gujarat, and delivering an
advanced GSM-R system to Eastern Railway. In the enterprise space, Nortel has
gained significant traction with a wide solution set: from voice over IP (VoIP),
data networking, and multimedia call centers to multi-service switches-giving
BPOs connectivity to and from the US, UK, Australia, and other locations where
the customers may be.
| President and CEO: Bill Owens |
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| Managing Director: Ashoka Valia |
| Area of Operation: Networking and carrier equipment |
Address: Nortel Networks
P&G Plaza, Ground Floor, Cardinal Gracias Road,
Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 099 |
| Tel:
022-56978700 |
| Fax: 022-56978787 |
| Website:
www.nortel.com |
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Nortel to manufacture telecom
equipment in India |
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Won $500 million deal to expand the
GSM/GPRS network in the east and south zones of BSNL |
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In 2005, it will focus on defense, finance, contact centers, and BPO |
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A joint venture with LG Electronics in Korea for development of telecommunications products |
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Nortel continues to get a major chunk from the BPO industry. By end of 2005,
it will introduce one of its cost- and response-time reduction solutions in the
telecom space, where it is working with Bharti to create centralized IVR ports
across the country to further bring costs down by 35 percent.
Nortel is also growing its wireless and NGN momentum-established in
Pakistan-and actualizing two key investments: a joint venture with LG
Electronics in Korea for the development of telecommunication products and
networking solutions for the global market; and a joint venture with China
Putian Corporation for R&D, manufacture, and sale of 3G equipment and
products to customers in China.
Nortel's momentum in wireless solutions continued globally, as highlighted
with contracts for 3G wireless network expansions, packet core, and 1x evolution
data optimized (1x EVDO) solutions with T-Mobile (Germany and Austria), Orange
Slovensko, Smartcom, Eurotel, and Centennial Communications.
Optical metro solutions have been deployed or selected by a variety of
service providers, governments, utilities, and healthcare organizations in
emerging markets around the world for critical business services, business
continuity, and disaster recovery (DR).
In 2005, the company will have renewed its focus on industry verticals such
as: defense, finance, contact centers, and BPO. There will be more deployments
of secure wired and WLANs, VPNs, converged voice and data networks, and VoIP.
Another area where Nortel is ramping up operations is in offering equipment for
managed services like SAN, DR, and business continuity to the enterprise
customers through the carriers.
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