Tuesday, 12 July 2011

PIA Dispatch - Sunday, July 10, 2011

Aquino to inaugurate Nokia Siemens Network R&D facility

President Benigno S. Aquino III will inaugurate Nokia Siemens Network’s (NSN) research and development facility located at the University of the Philippines-Ayala Technohub in Quezon City on Monday, July 11.

Upon his arrival at the project site, the President will view NSN’s photo gallery that includes a Philippine jeepney symbolizing the strengthening of Philippine-Finland partnership towards communications technology development.

The President will also tour the company’s facilities and may have an informal interaction with software engineers.

The newly constructed NSN NetworkLabs is a one of its kind and a first ever R&D facility in Southeast Asia that is internationally recognized in the telecommunications industry as it services and supports all R&D teams around the world.

Nokia Siemens Network said it chose the Philippines as its new hub for NetworkLabs in Asia over other countries due to the country’s vast resource of highly skilled engineering students and graduates from reputable universities and colleges such as Mapua Institute of Technology, De La Salle University, University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University. (PCOO)