Nokia continues to expand its channel activity around the supply of private 4G/5G networks, and related edge computing, hardware, and software applications; the Finnish vendor has announced a new deal with New York-based Westcon-Comstor (Westcon) to distribute its drone-in-a-box solution to resellers in Europe,...
Telefónica is working with Nokia to offer private 4G and 5G networks, edge/cloud computing, and industrial applications to enterprises in Spain. The duo have signed a three-year deal, they said, which pairs Telefónica’s big data, IoT, and cybersecurity services, plus its national network, with...
Nokia said the purchase of Infinera, along with the sale of the Alcatel Submarine Networks business, will 'reshape' its Network Infrastructure unit
Nokia said it is buying optical networking vendor Infinera for $6.65 per share, equating to a value of $2.3 billion, in a deal...
Nokia said that the deal provides 5G coverage in six of Colombia’s largest cities
Finnish vendor Nokia and Colombian carrier Claro announced the successful completion of the first stage of what it claims to be Colombia’s largest 5G deployment covering over 1,000 sites nationwide.
The project,...
'Sustaining closed networks is a thing of the past,' says Nokia exec
Nokia announced a collaboration with Telefonica that will see the pair develop Standalone (SA) 5G-compatible consumer, enterprise and industrial services. As part of the agreement, the companies will also explore new API opportunities,...
Cloud-native functions (CNFs) offer flexible deployment options
As cloud-native networks advance and the telecom industry moves toward advanced 5G services, IT platforms have shifted toward horizontal cloud infrastructures. These scalable and shared cloud platforms support a range of applications and services across different layers of...
Vodafone currently owns 21.5% of Indus Towers via various group entities
U.K.-based Vodafone Group is looking to sell its entire $2.3 billion stake in Indian tower company Indus Towers through stock market block deals, local newspaper Business Standard reported, citing sources with knowledge of the...
Following the issue of the shares, Nokia and Ericsson will have a 1.5% and 0.9% stake in the Vodafone Idea, respectively
Indian carrier Vodafone Idea said it will issue shares worth INR24.58 billion ($294.3 million) to pay existing debts with Nordic vendors Nokia and Ericsson,...
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Nokia has polled 100 industrial enterprises with their own 4G/5G networks and found that the business case for private cellular is universally good, it has said. More than this, the Finnish vendor claims its limited sample of early-adopters, randomly picked from across the industrial...
Nokia said that the call was enabled by the new Immersive Voice and Audio Services (IVAS) codec technology which is part of the upcoming 5G Advanced (5G-A) standard
Finnish vendor Nokia said it has completed what it claims to be the world’s first live immersive...
Nokia stated that most operators will need to increase their TDD mid-band spectrum holdings in the second half of the decade given the rate at which data traffic is increasing
Nokia and Telia announced that they have successfully completed a field pilot in the upper...
Nokia has signed a research and development (R&D) deal with the Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya university in India, formerly the country’s National Rail and Transportation Institute, to develop 5G and 6G solutions for the country’s transport and logistics sector. Their joint work will address solutions...
Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik has convened a gang of chipset makers and module makers to develop a working supplier ecosystem around the new 1.8 GHz ‘utility’ band in Canada, reserved for power utilities. These include GCT, Semtech (Sierra...
In modern networks, timing and synchronization are taking on increasing importance for several reasons: The widespread deployment of Time-Division Duplexing (TDD) midband spectrum for 5G, and because increasingly exact coordination is being demanded of the network for advanced air interface features. As MNOs shift...
The subaquatic optical network connects 500,000 users across more than 400 communities in the Amazon rainforest
Nokia has partnered with fiber optic network operator Global Fiber Peru — a subsidiary of Satelital Group — on the deployment of a new subaquatic optical, IP and fiber...
As part of the first step in their network API collaboration, Nokia and Orange recently co-hosted a "Network as Code Hackathon” at France's tech start-up conference, Viva Tech
Orange and Nokia today announced that they are expanding their partnership to advance 5G network programmability and...
Vodafone Idea said it aims to launch its 5G network this year
Swedish vendor Ericsson is currently in discussions with Indian operator Vodafone Idea with the aim of securing new orders for 4G and 5G equipment, according to Indian press reports.
“Vodafone Idea is our partner...
Finnish vendor Nokia’s private 4G/5G DAC system has been validated by UK-based IT solutions provider Black Box on a DAS setup from US-based Corning. The project paves the way for dual public and private 4G/5G networks using shared spectrum on traditional indoor radio infrastructure,...
Nokia has completed a deal to buy US-based defense-comms specialist and integrator Fenix Group. The agreement was originally announced at the end of last year. The acquisition, now ratified in a Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) review, has been a strategic...
Nokia noted that private 5G is well equipped with comprehensive in-built security features mandated by 3GPP
The deployment of the edge on-premise is essential to ensure that industrial use cases benefit from private wireless networks performance, according to Stephane Daeuble, head of Enterprise Campus Edge...
Smart ports are just about the easiest place to put a private 5G network right now – at this point in the development of 5G technology, when outdoor coverage and mobility are its key benefits. This is because shipping terminals feature large outdoor spaces...
Verizon Business is probably the one operator-backed enterprise services provider – outside of China, at least – that is starting to look like it has the measure of the private 5G market. It speaks very well of its strategies and successes, of course, but...
KT and Nokia agreed to collaborate on developing advanced Open RAN technology for 6G mobile communications
Korean carrier KT has partnered with Finnish vendor Nokia to carry out research in the 6G field, Korean press reported.
The two companies agreed to collaborate on developing advanced...
