After its bet on Symbian infrastructure instead of Android turned sour for Nokia's handsets business, Nokia Network was born and it silently transformed from a frontend player to a backend one—today "every call made in India touches a Nokia element"
The meeting starts at 10.30. It’s a blustery Friday morning; the pre-monsoon showers have finally had their date with a sweltering Delhi-NCR region towards the fag end of June, and suddenly the murky view from the seventh floor of one of the towering buildings of Cyber City in Gurugram turns crystal clear. As the rain beats down heavily on suspended dust in the smoky air, a cluster of distant office buildings and telecom towers move away from the blind spot. Even a bold red Airtel billboard becomes clearly visible.
(This story appears in the 15 July, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)