Nokia to launch phones across price segments in India
Manila, Oct 08: Undaunted by increasing competition, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker Nokia has identified India as a “very high growth” market and plans to launch phones across price segments to maintain market leadership.
“If we categorise the world into very high, medium and low growth countries, India would be in the very high growth group. The potential and the opportunities in the country are very high,” Nokia Asia-Pacific vice president (sales and market operations) Alex Lambeek said here.
The Finnish mobile giant started manufacturing phones in India early this year at its facility in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, where it is investing USD 150 million.
Lambeek said India was a large volume market in the Asia-Pacific region that is set to provide a large chunk of new buyers in the coming years.
“Between now and 2008, over half of new subscribers in the world would come from the Asia-Pacific region, driven largely by India, China, Bangladesh and Indonesia. So Asia-Pacific is critically important and India is a very large part of that,” he said.
Nokia, which commands a dominant share in the Indian mobile phone market, has of late faced competition from other players like Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung who have been increasing sales, especially with the launch of sleek, trendy handsets.
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Nokia Wins GSM Core Network Deal With Telefonica Moviles Peru
ESPOO, Finland, October 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Nokia (Nachrichten/Aktienkurs) has successfully implemented a complete GSM core network for Telefonica Moviles (Nachrichten/Aktienkurs) Peru. As part of the deal, Nokia has provided its industry leading mobile softswitch MSC Server System. Telefonica Moviles Peru is a new customer for Nokia.
The 3GPP compliant architecture of the Nokia MSC Server System allows Telefonica Moviles Peru to gain significant cost saving in the operation of its GSM network, for example, by reducing transmission costs and floor space occupancy. It will also offer an evolution path to future IP networks.
“Nokia has proved to be a reliable supplier of network equipment and services, who understands our customer requirements,” says Luis Fernandez, CTO, Telefonica Moviles Peru. “Their MSC Server System will help us optimize network operations as we grow.”
In addition to the core network equipment, Nokia has provided network planning and optimization services, training and operations support for six months. The network is supported by the multivendor, multitechnology Nokia NetAct(TM) network and service management system.
The GSM network is now operational, and Telefonica Moviles Peru has launched their services under the brand movistar Peru. The network deployment was the fastest ever for Telefonica Moviles.
“This agreement reinforces our growing and successful cooperation with Telefonica Moviles in Latin America,” says Pentti Tolonen, General Manager, Networks, Nokia. “The Nokia mobile softswitch supports GSM and WCDMA services and offers an easy upgrade to VoIP, making it an ideal solution for Telefonica Moviles Peru.”
Nokia is creating seamless user experiences in converging networks thanks to mobile softswitching and IMS for fixed and mobile. With over 100 customers for its mobile softswitching and over 50 live networks, Nokia is clearly the most experienced mobile softswitching supplier worldwide.
About Telefonica Moviles Peru
Telefonica Moviles Peru, is a subsidiary of the Telefonica Moviles Group in the Peruvian market, where it commercializes its services under the brand name movistar. It has the leadership of the mobile phone industry in the country with more than four million customers (in June of 2006). Telefonica Moviles Peru was the first carrier that commercially launched the third generation technology in Peru, and has around 1.6 million 3G customers nowadays. In February 2006, the company launched its first GSM services, deploying this network nationwide in a record time in the worldwide mobile industry.
About Nokia
Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations.
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Superscape’s Paintball Challenge Mobile Game Now Available From the Movistar Network in Peru
SAN CLEMENTE, California, September 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Superscape Group plc announces that another of its mobile games titles is now available for download from the Movistar network in Peru.
Paintball Challenge, set within four different terrains, allows players to set up traps and splatter their opponents. Choose to play as a player, team member or leader, racking up the most ‘splats’ as the search goes on for the enemy’s camp.
Kevin Roberts, CEO, Superscape Group plc said: “Paintball Challenge was developed by our own games designers, and has proved to be a very popular, easy to play game, with wide-ranging appeal.”
About Superscape
Superscape is the world’s leading publisher of 3D mobile games. The company was the first in the world to develop and launch international standard (JSR 184) compliant solutions for the delivery of innovative games on mass-market handsets. Superscape is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has corporate offices in Hook, Hampshire (UK) and San Clemente, California (USA), together with development and production facilities in Moscow.
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The Phenomenon Called Indian Mobile Market Growth
The Indian mobile market is on a high growth trajectory. I was in two different Indian cities last week – part of my five day-five city tour across Asia. While in India, I was told by my colleagues that the mobile telephone network connectivity has become so bad that connections are dropping often.
I was in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur for a day and during a discussion with friends, a Malaysian expert told me that the prospects of two major Malaysian telecom operators look good owing to their investments in India.
I was in a lunch meeting with a senior executive of a major Southeast airline the week before in Singapore – the most talked about topic over lunch was the advent of Indian aviation players creating ripples in the market. I was floored by the experience flying Jet Airways during the Chennai to Kuala Lumpur flight. My colleagues ask me to hold judgement till I get to fly Kingfisher. I am not someone to be impressed so easily – my frequent flyer statement shows several hundred thousand miles with none other than Singapore Airlines. It is very likely aviation shall do an impressive repeat of the success of the mobile industry.
Let’s look at the telecom scene: Southeast Asian telecom operators have made significant investments in Indian mobile service players. These players took a financial stake in established growing businesses. Maxis, Malaysia’s largest telecom player has invested in Aircel, and Singtel has invested in Bharti, the largest mobile player in India. As these players slug it out, Maxis reports that Aircel added 588,000 new subscribers during the second quarter alone, which is more than double Maxis’ achievement in Malaysia. The other Malaysian player, Telekom Malaysia, is investing in the third Indian Indian player – Spice communications. All the three are aggressively expanding their Indian opoerations.
Monthy subscriptions inching towards six million additions per month – 5.9 million of them – are new mobile subscriptions, making India’s net addition the highest in the world, overtaking that of China – though the penetration levels may be lower. This New York Times article shows that china added 5.1 million subscribers, so the Indian run rate is 15% ahead of that of china.
Look at the growth – around 125 million subscribers have signed for mobile services in less than 15 years since the services were launched in the country. India believes that six or seven million monthy new subscriber additions are possible. Clearly liberalization and foreign investments all are helping the country in a big way – after all, the Indian mobile subscription rates are amongst the lowest in the world and handset makers like Nokia are helping the cause by coming in with low cost models and in the process helping India create high tech manufacturing clusters in places like Sriperumpudur, India’s likely answer to Shenzhen.
Three types of operators are alreasy investing here: the OEMs like Nokia, Motorola, the EMSs like Flextronics and Foxconn, and the component manufacturers who work with the OEM and EMS players. Dell is the recent addition planning to set up a manufacturing shop there. It’s the most talked about thing in the tech sector today – some of the largest telecom-related opportunties for system integrators/service players are available in India.
Clearly opening up of the economy and the progress of the technology world is helping India advance faster and better – the only eyesore is the Indian infrastructure. I do not want to write about my experience in the Bangalore airport clearing baggage or the time that it took for me to clear immigration on my return via Chennai.
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