NSN transforming to become mobile broadband specialist: Rajeev Suri

On the eve of Mobile World Congress 2012, Rajeev Suri outlines the transformational changes Nokia Siemens Networks is making to pave the way for the gigabyte revolution.

Speaking in Barcelona on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2012, Rajeev Suri, chief executive officer, Nokia Siemens Networks, said the company was transforming fast to meet the accelerating pace of change in the mobile telecommunications industry.

He said that driving innovation and efficiency would be the key to success in an industry facing challenging economic times.

We believe that the future of this industry is mobility, and that is why we are building the world’s mobile broadband specialist, with the resources, expertise and investment necessary to lead our customers into the gigabyte revolution he added.

Suri said the pace of change in the mobile telecommunications industry was accelerating as the industry moved from a phase of ubiquitous mobile broadband to a new economic model over the next five years, characterized by near-field communications, mass gaming and mobile money, all tied in to location services.

He predicted that this would be followed by the “era of sensors”, that would embrace artificial intelligence, machine to machine communication and intelligent applications that connect to each other and interact autonomously.

“These society-defining trends are fueling the gigabyte revolution that we believe will take us to one gigabyte per user per day by 2020, downloaded at speeds more than ten times those we have now,” he said.

Suri said that these changes required operators to balance continued investment in their networks and tools with the need to remain efficient to protect profitability. This in turns has an impact on infrastructure vendors, including Nokia Siemens Networks.

All of these trends add up to a huge challenge for vendors who must maintain their relentless pace of innovation while finding their own share of the industry’s profit pool he added.