{"id":15352,"date":"2012-06-14T01:33:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T23:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=15352"},"modified":"2012-06-14T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:02:28","slug":"nokia-siemens-networks-targets-35-of-brazilian-4g-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/15352\/nokia-siemens-networks-targets-35-of-brazilian-4g-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Siemens Networks targets 35% of Brazilian “4G” network"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nokia Siemens Networks<\/a> aims to supply more than a third of Brazil’s nascent fourth-generation (4G)<\/a> wireless network, the head of its Latin American board said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

As Brazilian regulator Anatel wrapped up its first auction of 4G licenses, the regional chairman of Nokia Siemens, Aluizio Byrro, said the company wants a piece of the new market that is in line with its more than 35 percent share of the 3G market.<\/p>\n

“We don’t want to let go of a single percentage point,” Byrro said in an interview, citing the company’s growing focus on Latin America, which contributes over 10 percent of revenue.<\/p>\n

Byrro said Nokia Siemens is in talks with a local partner to start producing 4G equipment in Brazil by September to help wireless operators establish coverage in host cities for the 2014 Soccer World Cup.<\/p>\n

New requirements that equipment be Brazilian-made also spurred the rush to manufacture locally, he said.<\/p>\n

“We have been studying the possibility of producing in Brazil for some time and the conditions have improved quite a bit recently,” Byrro said, saying the company was holding off a decision about setting up a local factory.<\/p>\n

“The next big challenge is to also make Brazilian production competitive enough to export.”<\/p>\n

Nokia Siemens is a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG, formed to compete with dominant industry suppliers such as Ericsson<\/a>, which has said it expects 4G networks to cover half the world by 2017.<\/p>\n

But Nokia Siemens has struggled and announced a wave of staff cuts globally over the past year, including a 3,500-person layoff in Latin America following the end of a large services deal in the region.<\/p>\n

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