BROWSING: Nokia

Finland has issued its first private cellular licence for industrial LTE and 5G at 2.3 GHz. State-owned energy company Fortum Power and Heat will use the licence at its power plant in Loviisa, on the country’s southern coast. Local transport and communications agency Traficom...

Nokia providing 5G RAN, core, IMS technologies to Taiwan Mobile Nokia has been selected by Taiwan Mobile as the sole supplier of its 5G network in a three-year framework deal worth approximately 400 million euros  ($451 million) The initial phase of the deal, which includes 5G...

Open RAN, as the name implies, is meant to be open to multiple vendors, both hardware and software, that work together to achieve interoperability in accordance with an operator's needs. But as incumbent radio vendors like Nokia throw out terms like "open but integrated,"...

Anyone who has used a public Wi-Fi hotspot for more than the occasional web browsing and emailing knows how unpredictable it can be. Wi-Fi’s lack of predictability has held back the deployment of wireless in many enterprise applications where predictable performance is essential. Fortunately...

Swedish network vendor Ericsson is offering trial kits of private industrial 5G networks to enterprises via its mobile operator customers. It has confirmed Deutsche Telekom in Germany as its first operator partner to resell the test networks to local industry. Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom already...

Italian operator Linkem has signed with Nokia to resell The Finnish firm’s cloud-based private network platform to industrial companies in its home market. Linkem claims a 40 per cent share of the fixed-wireless access (FWA) market it Italy; the company has live 5G network operations...

Singapore is on track to offer nationwide 5G coverage by 2025 Two mobile operators in Singapore, StarHub and M1, which signed an exclusive agreement to cooperate and submit a joint bid for a 5G license in January, have selected Nokia and Ericsson for their network...

Toyota exploring 5G for "digital engineering" of manufacturing processes Nokia's latest private network win comes from Japanese automaker Toyota which selected the vendor to deploy a 5G-upgradable private network at its manufacturing design center in Fukuoka, Japan with an eye on support for internet of...

Nokia has launched a new cloud RAN (C-RAN) solution to enable operators to more easily activate new 5G services and revenue streams, including as they target new ‘vertical’ customer segments with industrial-grade networking in 5G network slices of both public and private networks. C-RAN offers...

  Taiwan Mobile has become the third mobile operator to secure a 5G license in the country after telecommunications regulator NCC approved the telco’s 5G plan, according to local press reports. NCC Chief Secretary Hsiao Chi-hong said Taiwan Mobile is now expecting to deploy 4,000 5G...

Ready for C-Band spectrum? Nokia says it is Nokia is putting 5G New Radio through its paces in C-Band spectrum in Dallas, Texas and says that it successfully completed a series of over-the-air 5G tests and reached "stable peak throughput speeds" of more than 1...

  Canadian telecoms operator Telus has selected Samsung Electronics as its 5G network infrastructure supplier, the latter said in a release. Samsung has signed four new 5G contracts in the last seven months, including operators in Canada, U.S. and New Zealand. “We are pleased to select Samsung as...

Nokia exec says open RAN marked by both merit and hype Nokia and AT&T today announced a successful trial of a Radio Intelligent Controller (RIC) on the carrier's millimeter wave 5G network in New York City. Nokia's Sandro Tavares, global head of mobile networks marketing,...

Nokia wants a custom 5G chip in more than 35% of its 5G shipments by the end of 2020 Broadcom has been added to Nokia’s list of 5G chip suppliers, joining Intel and Marvell, both of which made similar deals with the equipment vendor in...

  China Unicom has chosen Nokia to support the deployment of its 5G SA Core network in China, the Finnish vendor said in a release. Nokia said that this new 5G deal represents an expansion of its existing 4G working relationship with the Chinese carrier. Nokia said...

The 5G use cases span a number of different industry sectors After speaking with over 1,000 IT decision-makers at U.S. and U.K. enterprises, Nokia released a new study called “Mapping demand: The 5G opportunity in enterprise for communications service providers,” which revealed the top five...

75% of consumers cited fixed wireless access as the most appealing 5G use case According to a Nokia study, which surveyed 3,000 consumers in the U.K., U.S. and South Korea, 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) is the most desirable consumer use case for the next-gen...

New research from Nokia says one third of enterprises in the energy, manufacturing, cities, and transportation sectors are already using 5G to drive industrial performance and digital change. Three in five enterprises will look to mobile operators for direction when planning 5G services, according...

Note, this article continues from a previous post, entitled, ‘Three-tiered private 5G offer emerges as telcos embrace vertical, unlicensed bands’. Click here to go to the first instalment.   Nokia has warned mobile operators to grasp the nettle of private cellular, even if they are stung...

  Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom became the first telco in Taiwan to receive a license for 5G services, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said. The telco expects to launch commercial 5G services in Taiwan based on the non-standalone (NSA) architecture next month. The NCC, which regulates telecommunications...

  Nokia announced that its liquid cooling 5G AirScale Base Station solution has helped Finnish mobile operator, Elisa, reduce the potential energy expenses of its base station as well as CO2 emissions. In a release, the Finnish vendor noted that is the first time that a...

Canadian operators move away from Huawei Canadian operator Telus announced it has selected European vendors Ericsson and Nokia to support the deployment of its 5G network after the firm had suggested that it would use Huawei equipment earlier this year. Darren Entwistle, President and CEO of...

Open RAN movement latest front in larger geopolitical conflict With the benefit of hindsight, the 5G New Radio standard was collaboratively developed by organizations like 3GPP with a broad goal of creating a single standard rather than rehashing GSM vs. CMDA or LTE and WiMax....

Most of you reading this blog will be doing so under lockdown. Whether or not you are reading this while working is another matter, but regardless, you will be using data. In this current time, when so many people are staying indoors to prevent...