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NorthStar Communications Group and Lemcon Networks Form Joint Venture To Offer 2.5G and 3G Wireless Services
For Immediate Release. August 23, 2001, Birmingham, Alabama: NorthStar Communications Group (NorthStar) and Helsinki based Lemcon Networks (Lemcon) today announced the formation of a joint venture to offer turnkey solutions to the wireless market.
The venture will initially focus on the upcoming 2.5G and 3G rollouts in the US market by providing a full array of infrastructure deployment services. The service offering will cover all components of a network rollout including outsourcing, program management, network planning, site acquisition, design, permitting/zoning, construction, implementation, and network testing.
"We believe that by bringing together the global 2.5G and 3G experience of Lemcon with the local experience and capabilities of NorthStar, we are bringing the best of both worlds to the market," said Bill Johnson, president and CEO of NorthStar.
"Lemcon has been involved in wireless projects in 17 countries and on four continents and we look forward to bringing our expertise to the U.S. market with our NorthStar partners," said Juha Nurmi, managing director of Lemcon.
The multi-million dollar joint venture is slated to begin operations immediately with the training of regional work teams on the specifics of 2.5G and 3G rollouts. "The skill levels of these regional work teams will reflect real-life deployment experience with this type of technology, which is currently in very short supply," according to NorthStar's senior vice president of sales, marketing and business development Tom Anderson. "Because of the regional focus, we will be able to deliver these services on a cost-effective basis, either separately or integrated into a turnkey solution, depending on the customers requirements."
Lemcon Networks is a member of the Lemminkäinen Group, the oldest construction group in Finland and today, one of the largest, with annual revenues in excess of USD 1 billion. The Lemminkäinen Group operates in all sectors of the construction industry: telecom construction, civil engineering, building contracting and the manufacture of building materials and related contracting.
NorthStar, with corporate headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama serves as the stand-alone telecommunications subsidiary of B E & K, Inc., also based in Birmingham. B E & K is a multi billion dollar global engineering and construction company and is consistently ranked as one of "The 100 Best Companies To Work For In America."
NorthStar is the 6th largest telecommunications engineering and design firm according to Engineering News-Record's prestigious Annual Listing of Leading Contractors and Design Firms. NorthStar offers a broad range of communications services, including outsourcing, telecom engineering, construction management, project management, network installation and maintenance, and professional staffing
Emily Tedrow
NorthStar Communications Group, Inc.
E-mail: TedrowE@NorthStar.net
Leena Arimo
Lemcon Networks
E-mail: leena.arimo@lemcon.com
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