Nokia announced on Monday shifting the hub of its global telecom network management services to India from its home base in Finland.
"The managed services will be led globally from India from July. Asish Chowdhary, head of networks in India, will transition as the new global head of managed services from India by the end of this year," Rajeev Suri, senior vice president, Asia Pacific (Networks) at Nokia, said.
"India will play a pivotal role in Nokia's managed services success, not only as a large target market but also from the delivery and direction perspective," he said.
The current vice president for managed services at the company, Henrik Sund, who established the service line, is quitting the company.
The managed services division of Nokia runs the telecom networks of service providers as part of the outsourcing agreement.
Nokia said the move underscores its commitment to tap global services market growth as well as India's outstanding outsourcing and innovation ecosystem.
The company's first Global Network Solutions Centre in Chennai has begun operations in May and will serve as hub for other Nokia operations centres across the world. "The solutions centre will sit over Nokia's other network operations centre. It will first offer services in India and gradually to customers in Asia Pacific and other parts of the world," Suri said.
Nokia's Network Operations Centre runs the telecom networks of service providers from remote locations.
Though Nokia has been providing services to telecom operators for 20 years, it created a special business unit for it only in 2004.
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