GSA announces the appointment of Anders Kager as GSA's spokesperson for India in 2006. India is a major success story for GSM with over 60 million subscribers and is the leading mobile system for delivering the Government's target of 200 million mobile subscribers by 2007.

Mr Kager will be responsible for identifying the opportunities where GSA can assist though dialogue with policy-makers, industry and the media to ensure that India continues to benefit from GSM/3G systems and solutions. The focus is on support for local market needs with typical actions encompassing:

• media briefings and interviews
• dialogue with regulators and government representatives regarding market opening and development, spectrum availability, etc.
• information exchange with mobile network operators
• dialogue with key industry associations

Anders Kager is the Regional Director of Marketing, Asia Pacific at Nokia Networks. Appointed in 2003, he holds regional marketing responsiblility for Nokia's infrastructure business in the Asia Pacific region, spearheading both marketing as well as market acceleration activities. He is based in Singapore.
A veteran in the telecommunications industry across different geographies, joining Nokia in Sweden in 1990. Anders worked for seven years in sales and account management, culminating as the Senior Account Manager for Private Networks and New Operators in Sweden. In 1997, Anders moved to work in Asia Pacific and held various senior sales and marketing positions in Malaysia and Japan, including the position of Director of Marketing, Strategy & Business Development for Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Philippines.
Before Nokia, Anders worked with the Swedish State Power. Anders holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He was GSA APAC Chairman in 2005. Contact Anders Kager by email at anders.kager@gsacom.com.

GSA - the Global mobile Suppliers Association, is the forum for, and represents, the leading GSM/3G suppliers worldwide, representing over 80% of GSM/3G market share globally. GSA delivers authoritative, factual, and objective information for the mobile industry including market intelligence, market/technology updates, and latest statistics. GSA advises governments, administrations and policy-makers on the optimum conditions for mobile market developments. Briefings are regularly given to media and analysts. Global programs are complemented by regional activities.

Regular interaction and enhanced information-sharing with mobile operators is facilitated by GSA-organized regional seminars and relationship events, and via the Operators Zone for immediate and global reach.

The New Ventures Program assists start-up wireless application developers.

GSA is a Market Representation Partner in 3GPP and co-operates with other key organisations worldwide.

The member companies of GSA include Aeroflex, Agere, Broadcom, Business Logic Systems, CCww, Comsys, Ericsson, EVI Technology, Nokia, Openwave, Panasonic, Philips Semiconductors, Radixs, Siemens, Tekelec, Telcordia, TTPCom, and Wavecom, representing solutions providers, GSM, EDGE, WCDMA and HSPA infrastructure, user devices, OSS, applications developers, billing, revenue assurance, and semiconductor software design/platforms.

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