Nortel appoints Sanjay Singh as Director SMB, India

Mumbai

November 14th, 2007

Nortel announced the appointment of Sanjay Singh as Director- Small and
Medium Business (SMB), effective immediately. This appointment reflects Nortel's
objective of accelerating the strong momentum in its SMB business.

"Sanjay is a high-energy, result-oriented leader with a proven track
record of growing business. He enjoys the confidence of the channels community
as well, which is an important element of our SMB go to market strategy,"
said Dhananjay Ganjoo, VP-Enterprise, Nortel India.

"The SMB segment is going through a process of evolution and businesses
are looking at technologies to enable them to grow bigger. Nortel is gearing up
to become a dominant player in this segment. To grow our SMB business, we are
also bringing state of the art products from the LG Nortel stable. We have also
streamlined our training processes and established a robust ecosystem for our
SMB solutions that will help channel partners deliver the value of Nortel's
voice and data solutions across India at an affordable cost. Our solutions will
cater to businesses even as small as three to five staff," said Ravi
Chauhan, MD, Nortel India.

Prior to joining Nortel, Sanjay was Head of Teleconferencing and SME Business
Units with Avaya Global Connect Limited (AGCL). Sanjay has over 17 years of rich
experience in the telecom industry, including the creation of strong, multiple
product & solution portfolios for the SMB segment.