The future of communications: now showing in Mexico City

Nokia Siemens Networks opens its first Latin American Solution Experience Center

Nokia Siemens Networks has taken an important step in addressing the rapidly evolving challenges and opportunities of operators in one of the world’s most dynamic telecommunications markets with the opening of its first Solution Experience Center in Latin America.

The Mexico City center, which is the fourth such facility alongside sites in Helsinki, Munich and Atlanta, is designed as an all-encompassing sensorial telecom experience, aimed at bringing to life the power and potential of Nokia Siemens Networks full product and solution portfolio to customers, industry regulators and other stakeholders.

“Opening a Solution Experience Center in Mexico City demonstrates our commitment to the Latin American market and represents another valuable building block for our smart growth in this dynamic region,” said Armando Almeida, Head of Latin America of Nokia Siemens Networks at the opening of the Center. “By offering our customers the unique experience of using, testing and understanding our technology in first hand in a state-of-the-art facility, we can elevate the level of our dialogue with them and help them address their opportunities and challenges in a constructive and cooperative fashion.”

He added: “This center in Mexico is unique as we can address our customer needs in a truly localized way in terms of content, culture and language.”

The Mexico City center is interconnected with its peer sites worldwide to demonstrate telecommunications solutions in a way that allows visitors to see, touch and feel what the end user will experience in the real world.

In line with emerging needs, the Centers focus now on five solution areas: applications that delight customers; managing the customer experience; broadband with no boundaries; connecting the next billion users; and managed IP connectivity solutions.

“We are re-inventing the connected world, connecting people with what they want and need: their job, their family information public services, information, health and education fun and entertainment. Innovative solutions bring social and economic welfare and transforms people’s lives for good both in emerging and developed countries”, said Almeida.

Nokia Siemens Networks is the leading supplier of 3G infrastructure and services for operators in Latin America. The company is the preferred 3G vendor for many of the top carrier groups throughout the continent with 17 3G carrier customers to date.

Nokia Siemens Networks is the industry leader in 3G globally, to date having over 130 WCDMA radio network references and having enabled over 100 operators to launch HSPA, and with these networks connecting over a hundred million subscribers to date.

Nokia Siemens Networks has a strong track record of many industry firsts and leading innovations, such as I-HSPA that provides simple flat architecture for the 3G networks of today, and paves the way to their Long Term Evolution (LTE). LTE is the next phase for mobile networks like GSM, WCDMA and CDMA, promising delivery of new multimedia intensive and rich call applications by improving data speeds, reducing latency and building on a scalable flat network design.