Nokia says it has been planning for a new market reality
Nokia laid out its long-term strategy in a business update today that came in the wake of AT&T choosing Ericsson as the foundational vendor in its shift toward open networks. Investors responded by...
BT and Nokia have signed a deal to work on the developing new opportunities to monetize 5G, via the combination of EE's cloud-native network and Nokia’s Network as Code platform.
BT, owner of the U.K.'s EE mobile network, wants to "gain access to simplified...
du highlighted that 5G SA will allow local enterprises to leverage network-slicing technology
United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier du confirmed the launch of its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the contry.
The Arab telco said that the adoption of 5G SA technology brings many benefits...
Finnish vendor Nokia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) telco du announced the conclusion of what it claimed to be UAE's first 5G-Advanced 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) trial over a commercial network.
The partners said that this recent trial showcased the readiness of du’s 5G network for...
Telefonica will work to develop use cases using 5G Standalone (5G SA) and 5G NonStandalone (5G NSA) in the 26 GHz band
Spanish operator Telefónica, together with Nokia and the Valencia Polytechnic University (UPV), has launched what it claims to be the first laboratory in...
Masmovil said 77% of the population in Spain is already covered with its 5G network infrastructure
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in 2,217 towns and cities in 52 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the carrier said...
Globe said that it has logged 5.2 million 5G devices on its network as of September 2023
Globe Telecom, the largest mobile network operator in the Philippines, said it has deployed a total of 716 new 5G sites nationwide in the first nine months of...
5G Standalone (5G SA) Core creates impact by enabling new services and new efficiencies that deliver 5G’s exciting capabilities and performance levels. In 2023, I worked with communications service providers (CSPs) and hyperscalers committing to 5G Standalone Core solutions, helped the launch of enterprise...
The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes. To ease the migration to clean power, switching to renewables with as little friction as possible is key. The switch is bringing about a revolution in electricity generation and expanding its role across...
Bharti Airtel said its 5G service is now accessible across all districts and union territories in India
Indian operator Bharti Airtel said its 5G service, dubbed "Airtel 5G Plus," is now available across all districts in the states of Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Odisha, Karnataka, Gujarat...
Qatari mobile operator Ooredoo has deployed a private LTE network from Nokia for the oil and gas industry, covering offshore and onshore operations. In a press statement, Finnish vendor Nokia called it the “first” private cellular network in the Middle East and Africa (MEA)...
The Nokia OTN solution will enable Airtel to upgrade its legacy transport switching infrastructure across its pan-Indian network footprint
Finnish vendor Nokia has entered into an agreement with Indian carrier Bharti Airtel to deploy a next-generation optical transport network with the aim of providing additional...
SKT says it has improved the power consumption and processing capacity of virtual base stations
Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) is claiming advancements in the power consumption and processing capacity for Open RAN virtual base stations, resulting from its work with several industry partners including Samsung,...
Nokia will deploy its fully O-RAN-compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution in Docomo’s commercial network in Japan
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo is deploying the former’s Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution, including centralized unit (CU) and distributed unit...
Verizon said the new private 5G network will cover 270 acres of the NIT campus with dedicated Ultra Wideband spectrum
Verizon Business and the Norfolk International Terminal (NIT) announced an agreement to build a Verizon private 5G network at their Virginia facility, the former said...
Nokia said the testing was carried out at its O-RAN Innovation Center in Dallas
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas.
During the...
Carriers and network equipment manufacturers have stepped up tests and trials of 5G New Radio Reduced Capability (RedCap) in recent months. Geographically, these tests are taking place around the world, reflecting the global interest in 5G RedCap and the hope that the technology will...
The ‘private 5G’ partnership between system integrator Kyndryl and network vendor Nokia has so far resulted in 18 “large installations” on three continents, according to the former. Certain of them have covered enterprise environments of up to 50 square kilometres. The pair have a...
Current tests are laying the groundwork for RedCap to be commercialized in the 2024-2025 timeframe
Carriers and network equipment manufacturers have stepped up tests and trials of 5G New Radio Reduced Capability (RedCap) in recent months. Geographically, these tests are taking place around the world,...
On the face of it, the acquisition of local internet service provider EDPnet by Belgium-based Citymesh, which describes itself lately as a telco “challenger” brand in its home market, holds limited interest – to RCR’s enterprise readership, at least. But in ways, the deal...
Nokia Bell Labs, the Finnish vendor’s research division, is working with Saudi energy company Aramaco, owned by Saudi Aramco, are working to develop 5G-related Industry 4.0 cases and proofs for “priority industrial sectors” in Saudi Arabia – and the wider Middle East and Africa...
Local mobile operator NTT East, part of the multinational NTT group, has convened a cellular-geared Industry 4.0 working group of 18 domestic and international 5G equipment vendors to collaborate on private 5G propositions for enterprises in the eastern part of Japan. The likes of...
Nokia said L4S greatly boosts the performance of real-time applications, particularly cloud-rendered extended reality (XR) services
Finnish vendor Nokia announced a collaboration with Hololight to explore how L4S, an internet protocol invented by Nokia, can enable applications and networks to simultaneously achieve high throughput and...
In a recent conference call, Nokia President and CEO Pekka Lundmark said that the vendor’s business continued to see benefit from 5G deployments in India
Finnish vendor Nokia is seeing a substantial demand for 5G equipment in India during the next two years, local newspaper...
