Company Press Release:
Nokia to host “Focus on India” investor event in New Delhi

Nokia will host a “Focus on India” event for investors and analysts in New Delhi on Thursday, August 25, the first time that the company will be holding such a meeting in India.  Attending will be investors and financial and industry analysts from a number of global investment banks, financial institutions and research houses.

The theme of this year’s regional event is "Focus on India", and will include presentations from Nokia top management including Networks business group head Simon Beresford-Wylie.

Mobile telephony has reached its first decade in India, and Nokia is proud to have played a key role in its development from the very beginning.  The first-ever mobile call in the country was made using a Nokia phone on a Nokia-deployed cellular network. Since then, Nokia has notched a number of firsts in India in both handsets and networks, showing its commitment to one of the world’s most robust and exciting markets.

“India is already amongst the top five telecom markets in the world and is set to reach the third position in the next few years. This exponential growth will require large-scale investments. Keeping this in mind, Nokia decided to host its investor event in India. The event will showcase India as an investment destination and provide the global investor community an opportunity to interact with senior representatives of Indian telecom industry,” said Simon Beresford-Wylie, EVP & GM, Nokia Networks.
 
He added, “This year also marks a decade of mobile telephony in India, a decade in which Nokia has been a proud partner and key enabler of the local industry. The Nokia investor event commemorates this milestone and reinforces our long-standing commitment to the local market to drive growth.”

Nokia’s achievements in India include:

                ~ 1998, Saare Jahaan Se Acchha, first Indian ringtone in a Nokia 5110
                ~ 2000, First Hindi user interface (menu) in a Nokia 3210
                ~ 2002, First Hindi text input in a Nokia 3610
                ~ 2003, First Made-for-India phone, the Nokia 1100
                ~ 2004, Saral Mobile Sandesh, Hindi SMS on a wide range of Nokia phones Nokia’s operations in India include networks and terminals sales divisions, three Research and Development facilities and an upcoming manufacturing facility in Chennai that will produce both terminals and GSM infrastructure equipment. The end-to-end operations strengthen Nokia’s complete solution offering and uniquely position it to work with Indian operators to reduce time to market for both network equipment and terminals and achieve the Government’s target of 200 million mobile subscribers by 2008.

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