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[Eric]

Sari Baldauf on Nokia Networks

ihavenoidea,

<< i think he's doing very significant and appreciable marketing. >>

He is She.



Sari is President of Nokia Networks the 2nd largest mobile infrastructure provider worldwide, and she also oversees Nokia operations in China. She is a former academic who joined Nokia in 1983 as a strategic planner after a stint as marketing manager with Falcon Communications in Abu Dhabi. She was Executive Vice President of Nokia APAC in 1997 and in 1998 she was named President of Nokia Networks. She has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia since 1994.

<< Is this right, including handsets,(with a Nokia 3G chip!)? If not, then this is serious misrepresentation and beyond puffing. >>

The subject of the interview is about prospects for the Nokia's mobile infrastructure business that she has headed since 1999, and will continue to head in the reorganized Nokia effective January 1, 2004.

<< selling vaporware is and art, not a science >>

With 20,000 WCDMA base stations implemented, 4 commercially live 3GSM WCDMA networks and Core Network or RANs live and testing on 15+ networks and a total of 36 public referenceable contracts and 5 frame agreements for 3G kit, I think one might say that Nokia Network products are over the vaporware stage and ostensibly over the RNC problems that caused a deinstall of 700 BSTs in Hong Kong while the CN stayed in place that Sari referenced in her interview.

<< selling vaporware is and art, not a science >>

Perhaps we need an artist to sell GSM1X?

Best,

- Eric -