BROWSING: Nokia

The Brazilian government aims to carry out a tender to award 5G spectrum by the end of the first half of 2021, according to Brazilian press reports. According to government officials, the future 5G spectrum auction will be "the largest auction for the right to...

China Mobile will use Nokia’s ‘worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) to offer enterprise customers IoT connectivity at home and abroad. Nokia’s WING service affords operators a way to offer cellular IoT services without having to invest in global infrastructure. The deal, signed with China Mobile...

Canadian operator Rogers Communications today announced that it has turned on its 5G service in Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba. Including these communities, Rogers' 5G network now reaches a total of 134 cities and towns across Canada. “The arrival of 5G in Manitoba will change the way...

The MulteFire Alliance has launched a certification program for the original 1.0 version of the MulteFire specification. A radio unit and device from Nokia are the first products to go through the process. The alliance said enterprises can now deploy their own private LTE...

Private network operator and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has expanded its spectrum holding in Belgium to 100MHz of the 3.5 GHz band. It will use the new tranche of spectrum to bolster private 5G capacity in the North Sea, including to support the Belgian...

Nokia, Elisa and Qualcomm Technologies have achieved what they claim are the world’s fastest 5G speeds on a commercial network in Finland by delivering 8 Gbps for the first time serving two 5G mmWave devices connected simultaneously, Nokia said in a release. The record speed,...

Nokia announced that Swiss operator Swisscom will deploy Nokia FastMile 5G receivers, primarily in rural areas in Switzerland to offer ultra-fast broadband services. The Finnish vendor also said that it will be Swisscom’s exclusive supplier for 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). The Nokia FastMile 5G receiver...

Rohde & Schwarz has installed a private 5G network from Nokia at its plant in Teisnach, Germany. The network test company wants to run the rule over cellular-enabled Industry 4.0 applications in a dedicated 5G setup. Nokia is involved in the testing, too; the...

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Mike Murphy, Nokia Nokia's Mike Murphy, CTO of Americas, discusses 2020 5G milestones and looks ahead to 2021, talks Open RAN and the role of government in supply chain diversification, considers the potential for an East/West...

Spanish operator Telefonica has already activated its 5G network in 640 towns and cities across the country, local newspaper El Espanol reported, citing the telco’s CTO, Enrique Blanco. According to the report, Telefonica already provides its 5G service to approximately 42% of the Spanish population....

Germany-based industrial IoT specialist MYNXG has recruited Nokia to deploy a private 5G campus network at its development centre Nuremburg to run the rule over the technology as a platform for industrial-grade networking and integrate with its own IoT platform offering. The company said it...

New IBM hybrid cloud offering geared toward enterprise adoption of 5G and edge computing For operators investing billions in building 5G networks, the real revenue opportunity is not in selling enhanced services to consumers but, rather, in standing up differentiated service offerings geared toward the...

The launch of commercial 5G services is accelerating around the world, and the expectations for new use cases and opportunities they will drive are high.  Much of the promise of these new use cases will come with the implementation of new 5G core technologies...

RCR Wireless News · Private Wireless Podcast – Deployment Models (ep. 2) In the second episode of the new Private Wireless Podcast series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with Nokia about the key issues for enterprises looking to deploy private wireless solutions to drive digital change. Stephane Daeuble,...

  Brazilian mobile operator Claro, owned by Mexican telecommunications group America Movil, announced plans to expand its 5G service in 12 additional cities before the end of the year. Claro’s 5G service will reach Brasília, Porto Alegre, Goiânia, São Luís, Manaus, Belém, Guarulhos, Santos, Santo André,...

Telstra and Ericsson have struck a deal to bundle localised edge-based 5G connectivity and compute functions for enterprises in Australia. The pair are looking to develop a reusable “edge cloud solution”, out of a test model deployed already with an unnamed financial services company,...

A1 Austria is working with Nokia to deploy private LTE and 5G networks for enterprises in Austria. The pair have already worked together to deploy private wireless campus networks in Austria for Vienna Airport, automotive manufacturer Magna Steyr, and a government-funded 5G Playground in...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Anticipating 3G devices DUBLIN,...

  German chemicals company BASF and Spanish telecommunications infrastructure and services operator Cellnex Telecom have signed an agreement to install what Cellnex says will be the first private network based on 5G technology in the Spanish chemical industry. The pilot project will also be one of...

  Intel has signed a partnership with U.S. operator Dish Nework to supply virtualized RAN (vRAN) equipment for a standalone 5G deployment, the chipmaker said in a release. As part of the deal, Intel’s 5G infrastructure technology will create the foundation for Dish’s greenfield 5G network. The...

  Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom has built over 3,000 5G base stations nationwide as of the end of last quarter, the company’s president, Shui Kuo, said during a conference call with investors. “In the third quarter of 2020, the number of 5G sign-ups grew as we...

  India’s Department of Telecommunications is expected to carry out a 5G spectrum auction in the first quarter of 2021, Indian press reported, citing a top executive of telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel. The executive said that the telco will refrain from taking part in the spectrum...

“The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns ... illustrate the same process of industrial mutation--if I may use that biological term--that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly...

Nokia's president CEO signaled rough waters ahead for the network equipment manufacturer, saying that despite "making good progress in many parts" of its business, "more change is needed" to counteract market share losses that it is seeing during the transition to 5G networks. "The good...