Nokia Steps Up Chinese CDMA Research

Nokia has announced a significant expansion of its Research and Development (R&D) undertakings in China. This expansion includes the launch of a Nokia Postdoctoral Program, the creation of a unit to promote open standards and technology localization, and the establishment of a CDMA R&D facility in Beijing. The announcements also include a plan to expand the scale of product design and development for Nokia mobile phones at the Nokia Product Creation Center in Beijing.

"China is definitely a strategic part of Nokia's global R&D network," said Jorma Ollila, Chairman and CEO of Nokia. "We are pleased to be broadening our R&D activities in China and these steps further strengthen our long-term commitment to the country. With increasing depth in China's talent base and an improving regulatory environment for R&D, we see excellent opportunities to expand our collaboration with leading domestic institutions. This cooperation will boost technology innovation and localization, enabling us to strengthen our R&D in key areas and respond to Chinese customer needs."

Nokia China has been granted approval by the Ministry of Personnel to run a Postdoctoral Program. The program will provide educational and research opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to work on advanced telecommunication technology research projects at the Nokia Research Center (NRC) in China. The Program will accelerate technological innovation by attracting high potential students and enabling wider cooperation with the China research community. Postdoctoral researchers will concentrate on areas such as Asian user interfaces, 3G and other radio technology, IPv6 and Chinese mobile applications."

Posted to the site on 25th May 2004