Turin Municipality Prefers Nokia TETRA for Their Secure Radio Communications

Turin Municipality Prefers Nokia TETRA for Their Secure Radio Communications

First Significant TETRA Network Implementation in Italy

ESPOO, Finland, March 8/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia has won the contract to supply the radio communication network for
the Civil Protection and Transmission Department of the Turin Municipality.
The system will be the first significant implementation of its kind in Italy,
and it will provide the staff of Turin Municipality with seamless, highly
reliable Nokia TETRA voice and data services.

The network will vastly improve the communications of the municipal staff
in Turin, providing not only better coverage and functionality, but also
enabling better cooperation. Its first users will be the Municipality of
Turin and other local organisations who will enjoy improved secure coverage
by winter 2005. Later, the coverage of the network will be extended to the
whole of Turin metropolitan area, and further to the whole province of
Torino, which totals about 3 million inhabitants.

The system will be put into operation at the beginning of 2005, and will
initially serve around 6,000 users, with the number of users increasing up to
15,000 once it has been implemented in full.

"We are proud to be the first in Italy to deploy Nokia TETRA technology
and provide the Turin Municipality with a radio communication network that
represents a completely new generation, compared to the outdated analogue
radio systems currently in use," says Dr. Sergio Zaccaria, Director of the
Civil Protection and Transmission Department of the Turin Municipality.

"People who are responsible for the safety of others demand extreme
reliability and security from radio communications. For them, Nokia TETRA
system provides free mobility without compromising security. Nokia's
synergies between mainstream and mission critical technologies can be
harnessed to address the e-Government requirements in an ideal way. What's
more, Nokia is unique in its capability to implement and bring into operation
TETRA networks of all sizes, always ensuring highest-quality of performance,"
says Massimo Gotti, Managing Director, Nokia Italia.

"We are happy to say that the TETRA standard and the Nokia TETRA system
are widely acknowledged in Italy today," says Marco Santonocito, TETRA
Business Manager, Nokia Networks, Italy. "Nokia can implement TETRA systems
of all sizes, always ensuring top-quality performance. The project is unique,
in that it is the first significant TETRA network implementation in our
country".

Under the terms of the contract, Nokia will provide Turin Municipality
with digital TETRA professional mobile radio solutions, including Nokia DXTip
exchanges, Nokia TETRA base stations, Nokia DWS dispatcher workstations, and
Nokia NetActTM centralised network management system for the new operating
centre of the Municipal Police. Nokia will also provide integration training,
and care services, setting up of the terminals, and turn-key delivery of the
system. The Alpitel company - a member of a temporary association of
companies together with Nokia - will provide the implementation services for
the project.

Nokia is the world's leading supplier of TETRA networks and terminals and
has demonstrated a unique capability to deliver multi-exchange TETRA networks
with the ability to provide all TETRA services uniformly countrywide. Special
features include: top-class communications security, fast group calls,
sophisticated emergency call functionality, prioritized calls, advanced
messaging and data communication services, including packet data. The open
interfaces of Nokia TETRA solutions enable seamless integration to command
and control systems. Nokia continues investing in TETRA radio technology and
systems for the benefit of present and future customers.

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