SFR, NSN Team on 3GThe two companies have signed an agreement on the establishment of a joint SFR-Nokia Siemens Networks Competence Center in Paris. The SFR-Nokia Siemens Networks Competence Center aims to develop innovative concepts and appealing services for mobile centric applications. The main objective of this joint effort is to develop a common approach for launching advanced services.
The Competence Center combines SFR’s knowledge of the end-user and business requirements and Nokia Siemens Networks’ expertise in the development of application platforms and solutions.
“The launch of this Competence Center is the latest in a long list of achievements that underscores our good cooperation with Nokia Siemens Networks,” says Paul Corbel, Chief Technical Officer, SFR. “SFR also turned to Nokia Siemens Networks to migrate our core network to 3GPP Release 4 softswitches, as well as to help us to launch France’s first nationwide HSDPA and the first to make a WCDMA 900 test call in France. Today our 3G service is successful in France with more than 3 million subscribers, thanks to a network provided by the newly formed Nokia Siemens Networks, confirming that choosing to continue with Nokia Siemens Networks as our preferred partner in 3G is indeed the right choice.”
“We are very pleased to be working hand-in-hand with SFR to make SFR’s mobile centric strategy a reality,” says Olivier de Percin, Head of the SFR Customer Team at Nokia Siemens Networks. “The continuous flow of projects developed jointly between SFR and Nokia Siemens Networks is a great tribute to the partnership built between two companies that share the same vision of a mobile centric telecom world.”
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