BROWSING: Nokia

Run fast Imagine yourself in the mountains with a friend on a back-packing adventure. While watching the sun rise up between the trees, you see a bear running straight at your tent. You shout to your friend that a bear is headed your way, but...

5G+ is the network along with edge cloud, AI/ML, private networks, sensors and robotics Sectors such as media, financial services, and e-commerce were able to more quickly pivot as the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the ebb and flow of global commerce because they were farther along...

Vodafone Germany launched its 5G standalone (SA) network in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and OPPO. Vodafone upgraded 1,000 sites to SA 5G, covering 170 cities and municipalities via 3.5 GHz spectrum. The new network was initially launched in some major cities including Frankfurt, Berlin,...

The conversations around, and investment in, spectrum and C-Band have accelerated rapidly.  In 2020 alone, companies spent over $80 billion purchasing C-Band spectrum at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction, which covered operating licences in the frequency range of 3.7 - 3.98 GHz. The...

Finnish vendor Nokia and Australian operator Optus claimed a record aggregate site throughput after hitting download rates of 10Gbps using 800MHz of mmWave spectrum at a live 5G site in Brisbane. Nokia stated the demonstration employed its AirScale Radio equipment and showcased the capabilities of...

Brussels Airport has announced it has successfully tested drones for inspections and surveillance using its private 5G network, installed by network vendor Nokia and network operator Citymesh. Local air traffic control and management company Skeyes has also been involved in the test flights in...

Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at the Port of Southampton. Nokia is providing the networking infrastructure, as part of the...

Nokia has deployed an NB-IoT network for mobile network operator Saudi Mobily in the 800 MHz band in Saudi Arabia. The pair said they have connected more than 4,000 sites, with radius coverage of 20 kilometres per cell. The software on Mobily’s existing LTE base...

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom has deployed private 5G networks at shipping terminals in Mussalo and Hietanen in Kotka for Steveco, Finland’s largest port operator. Italy-based Athonet has provided the core network and connectivity platform. The two sites in Kotka, on Finland’s southern coast, are...

Safaricom will trial 5G network with consumer and enterprise customers African carrier Safaricom activated its 5G network in Kenya, the telco said in a release. The new 5G infrastructure, which was launched in the cities of Nairobi, Kisumu, Kisii and Kakamega, is expected to be expanded...

Nokia has integrated a spectrum access and radio sensing mechanisms into its private LTE and 5G offer for priority and general access users in the CBRS band in the US. The Finnish firm has partnered with Virginia-based Key Bridge Wireless on the solution, which...

Nokia and Turk Telekom reported 5G speeds over 4.5 gbps Nokia recently announced that it achieved a 5G speed record in collaboration with Turk Telekom. The pair conducted a trial in Ankara, Turkey that reached over 4.5 Gbps on 5G New Radio. The test utilized...

Network slicing – across the radio, the transport, and the core network – is coming to both private LTE and private 5G setups, Nokia has said. The Finnsh vendor is trialling its new slicing functionality with a trio of mobile network operators, including A1...

The 5G Standalone network will use the 3.5 GHz spectrum band The joint venture between Singapore’s M1 and Starhub, Antina, has selected Nokia to support the establishment of a 5G standalone (SA) Radio Access Network (RAN) Sharing network. According to Nokia, the network, which is...

Nokia warned it could cut up to 10,000 jobs as part of a wider restructuring effort designed to reset the vendor’s cost base and increase research and dvelopment investment and future capabilities including 5G, cloud and digital infrastructure. In a statement, Nokia said the planned...

Mona Noor, a product manager at Nokia, dives into some of the biggest security threats our networks will have to deal with in a 5G era, compares the inherent security of cloud and on-premise servers and explains why home IoT devices aren't built to...

Orange exec: 'The complexity of radio optimization is growing with 5G' Orange will implement Nokia’s Self-Organizing Networks (SON) technology across all of its 5G markets, starting with France and Spain, which will allow the carrier to automate its radio network configuration and optimization processes, as...

Nokia partnering with Google Cloud, AWS and Microsoft to bring open and cloud RAN to the edge with both operator and private enterprise networks In October last year, Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark, in addition to sharing Q3 financials and giving a first-look at an organizational...

  Finnish vendor Nokia announced plans to conduct a 5G Business-to-Business (B2B) digital platform trial for Korean operator LG Uplus. Once deployed, the B2B platform will allow LG Uplus to reduce time-to-market for launching 5G-powered services to its enterprise and business vertical customers. The European vendor also...

The KymiRing motorsports venue in Finland is to get its own private 5G network to augment media streaming and television broadcast services, as well as to help with testing autonomous and connected vehicles. Local private networking specialist Edzcom has been appointed to manage the...

Nokia has announced a deal with Danish network operator and internet provider Cibicom to deploy an LTE network in the 450MHz band to underpin mission critical services and “mass volume IoT adoption”. Separately, the Finnish vendor has said it is working with broadband provider...

Nokia has announced a five-year deal with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to build and run a 5G innovation facility at the university’s Tech Lab campus in Sydney, Australia. The new lab will see Nokia and UTS test 5G use cases with partners...

Nokia has been selected by Ecuadorian mobile operator, Corporación Nacional de Telecommunicaciones (CNT) to bring the first 5G network to the country, the Finnish vendor said in a release. The deal includes Nokia support CNT's extensive network modernization of existing LTE infrastructure as well as...

Nokia and Huawei joined Ericsson on Gartner's list of 5G leaders In its latest 5G "magic quadrant" assessment, Gartner labeled Ericsson as the standout network infrastructure and communications service provider, placing it ahead of China’s Huawei and Finland’s Nokia, the only other companies that the...