BROWSING: Nokia

  Almost 90% of mobile ecosystem players in China identified edge computing as a major revenue opportunity in the 5G era, according to a new GSMA survey. The new GSMA Intelligence report, called "Edge computing in the 5G era: Technology and market developments in China" and...

This year’s Hannover Messe trade fair, arguably the second biggest event for the telecoms market in Europe, has been postponed until July. Deutsche Messe, which runs the show, made the announcement today (March 4), to put the event back by two months on account of...

  Singapore telecom operator Singtel and Nokia have agreed to collaborate to develop and trial 5G network slicing capabilities, based on a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) approach, the Asian telco said in a release. Network slicing is a key 5G feature where multiple virtual networks can be created...

Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the project. The German operator said the deployment marks its fourth such campus installation. It has...

New Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark taking over the role on Sept. 1 It's been a rough few months for Nokia--a software problem delayed some Sprint 5G market activations and a lack of commercially-available dynamic spectrum sharing software could prove problematic particularly over the next year. In...

More detail has emerged about the private industrial 5G operations Lufthansa has pegged to its new holding in the 3.7-3.8 GHz spectrum in Germany, with Vodafone emerging, as well as Nokia, as early partner for the German airline’s technical services division. Separately of Nokia’s proclamation...

  Nokia announced the launch of its new end-to-end slicing network functionality for 4G and 5G New Radio (NR), claiming to the first vendor to offer this capability. In a release, Nokia said that the solution will support connectivity from 4G and 5G devices over the...

Note, this story has been referenced and updated in a new post, Lufthansa doubles-down with second private 5G trial – with help from Vodafone, which can be found here. German airline Deutsche Lufthansa (Lufthansa) has gained a spectrum licence for operating private LTE and...

BARCELONA--As we're all acutely aware, Mobile World Congress 2020 was cancelled due to concerns around the spread of coronavirus. However, a small handful of largely journalists and analysts came to Barcelona anyway to try to make hay as it were, including two members of...

  Japanese tech giant Fujitsu announced that it has received Japan's first private 5G radio station provisional license from the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications. As a next step, Fujitsu said it will establish a radio station emitting private 5G radio waves in order to verify private...

  Nokia and Japanese carrier KDDI have completed a 5G core standalone (SA) network trial, Nokia said in a release. The 5G standalone trial, using Nokia’s 5G AirGile cloud-native core solution, was conducted entirely independently of previous generations’ mobile network architecture. The Finnish vendor said that the...

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! China Mobile doubles...

Japan-based train company and railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway is trialling machine vision technology from Nokia to improve safety at rail crossings. The firm has started testing at the Tamagawa Gakuenmae No.8 railroad crossingin Machida City, in Tokyo. It is using ‘scene analytics’ software from...

  Finnish vendor Nokia is launching a certification program to help industry professionals realize the "full business potential of end-to-end 5G networks," the company said in a release. The Nokia Bell Labs end-to-end 5G certification program will offer professionals across the information and communications technology (ICT)...

   Nokia signed an agreement with French mobile operator IIiad Group to roll out 5G networks across France and Italy, the Finnish vendor said in a release. The 5G deal will focus on network modernization and 5G introduction in France and 5G introduction in Italy, making...

  Canadian mobile operator Telus will launch a 5G network in Canada later this year using equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, Telus’ CFO Doug French said in an interview with the Financial Post. “We’re going to launch 5G with Huawei out of the gate,” the...

  The French government confirmed that Chinese vendor Huawei would not be excluded from supplying equipment for local 5G networks, but could be subject to certain restrictions. “There is no discrimination towards Huawei… No, Huawei will not be excluded from the 5G in France,” Economy and...

Nokia has struck a deal with Indian operator Bharti Airtel to offer private LTE and industrial AI to enterprises in the manufacturing and distribution sector. The pair said their partnership around private networking in India will also draw in customers in the financial services, information...

  Nokia has signed a contract with Argentine telecom operator Telecom Argentina, which would allow the operator to offer IoT services to its enterprise customers in its home market and across Latin America using Nokia's Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING), Nokia said in a release. Telecom...

  Telecom operator Zain Saudi Arabia ended 2019 with a total of 2,600 5G towers across the country, the telco said in a release. Zain Saudi Arabia Vice-Chairman Bader Al Kharafi said that these 5G towers enabled the operator to offer commercial 5G services in 26...

Japanese telecoms group SoftBank claims to have tested non-standalone 5G with connected cars. Nokia, the kit partner for the tests, called it a “world-first trial”. The setup used 3GPP Release 15 compliant radio equipment running commercial-level 256QAM high-order modulation and 4x4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) spatial...

  Bell Canada expects to start the construction of its 5G network this year, using equipment from Finnish vendor Nokia, the company’s CEO Mirko Bibic said during a conference call with investors. “Nokia will be the first provider of 5G RAN equipment in our network. And...

Slovakia's largest operators, including Orange Slovensko, had previously revealed plans to postpone the launch of 5G networks In July 2019, 4ka became the first and only provider to introduce 5G to Slovakia, even as the country’s most prominent operators—including the largest, Orange Slovensko—all revealed plans...

AG Barr calls open RAN “pie in the sky,” suggests coordinated investment to counter Huawei Two things are clear: The U.S. views Huawei’s 5G market share as a cybersecurity threat both domestically and internationally, particularly in nations that share intelligence with America. And national leaders...