BROWSING: Nokia

Masmovil said 77% of the population in Spain is already covered with its 5G network infrastructure Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in 2,217 towns and cities in 52 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the carrier said...

Globe said that it has logged 5.2 million 5G devices on its network as of September 2023 Globe Telecom, the largest mobile network operator in the Philippines, said it has deployed a total of 716 new 5G sites nationwide in the first nine months of...

5G Standalone (5G SA) Core creates impact by enabling new services and new efficiencies that deliver 5G’s exciting capabilities and performance levels. In 2023, I worked with communications service providers (CSPs) and hyperscalers committing to 5G Standalone Core solutions, helped the launch of enterprise...

The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes. To ease the migration to clean power, switching to renewables with as little friction as possible is key. The switch is bringing about a revolution in electricity generation and expanding its role across...

Bharti Airtel said its 5G service is now accessible across all districts and union territories in India Indian operator Bharti Airtel said its 5G service, dubbed "Airtel 5G Plus," is now available across all districts in the states of Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Odisha, Karnataka, Gujarat...

Qatari mobile operator Ooredoo has deployed a private LTE network from Nokia for the oil and gas industry, covering offshore and onshore operations. In a press statement, Finnish vendor Nokia called it the “first” private cellular network in the Middle East and Africa (MEA)...

The Nokia OTN solution will enable Airtel to upgrade its legacy transport switching infrastructure across its pan-Indian network footprint Finnish vendor Nokia has entered into an agreement with Indian carrier Bharti Airtel to deploy a next-generation optical transport network with the aim of providing additional...

SKT says it has improved the power consumption and processing capacity of virtual base stations Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) is claiming advancements in the power consumption and processing capacity for Open RAN virtual base stations, resulting from its work with several industry partners including Samsung,...

Nokia will deploy its fully O-RAN-compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution in Docomo’s commercial network in Japan Finnish vendor Nokia announced that Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo is deploying the former’s Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution, including centralized unit (CU) and distributed unit...

Verizon said the new private 5G network will cover 270 acres of the NIT campus with dedicated Ultra Wideband spectrum Verizon Business and the Norfolk International Terminal (NIT) announced an agreement to build a Verizon private 5G network at their Virginia facility, the former said...

Nokia said the testing was carried out at its O-RAN Innovation Center in Dallas Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas. During the...

Carriers and network equipment manufacturers have stepped up tests and trials of 5G New Radio Reduced Capability (RedCap) in recent months. Geographically, these tests are taking place around the world, reflecting the global interest in 5G RedCap and the hope that the technology will...

The ‘private 5G’ partnership between system integrator Kyndryl and network vendor Nokia has so far resulted in 18 “large installations” on three continents, according to the former. Certain of them have covered enterprise environments of up to 50 square kilometres. The pair have a...

Current tests are laying the groundwork for RedCap to be commercialized in the 2024-2025 timeframe Carriers and network equipment manufacturers have stepped up tests and trials of 5G New Radio Reduced Capability (RedCap) in recent months. Geographically, these tests are taking place around the world,...

On the face of it, the acquisition of local internet service provider EDPnet by Belgium-based Citymesh, which describes itself lately as a telco “challenger” brand in its home market, holds limited interest – to RCR’s enterprise readership, at least. But in ways, the deal...

Nokia Bell Labs, the Finnish vendor’s research division, is working with Saudi energy company Aramaco, owned by Saudi Aramco, are working to develop 5G-related Industry 4.0 cases and proofs for “priority industrial sectors” in Saudi Arabia – and the wider Middle East and Africa...

Local mobile operator NTT East, part of the multinational NTT group, has convened a cellular-geared Industry 4.0 working group of 18 domestic and international 5G equipment vendors to collaborate on private 5G propositions for enterprises in the eastern part of Japan. The likes of...

Nokia said L4S greatly boosts the performance of real-time applications, particularly cloud-rendered extended reality (XR) services Finnish vendor Nokia announced a collaboration with Hololight to explore how L4S, an internet protocol invented by Nokia, can enable applications and networks to simultaneously achieve high throughput and...

In a recent conference call, Nokia President and CEO Pekka Lundmark said that the vendor’s business continued to see benefit from 5G deployments in India Finnish vendor Nokia is seeing a substantial demand for 5G equipment in India during the next two years, local newspaper...

Israeli edge-cloud and private cellular software company ASOCS is working with Lufthansa Industry Solutions (LHIND), the system integrator (SI) division of German aviation firm Lufthansa Group, and an early pioneer of private 5G in Europe, to test and develop its own industrial 5G positioning...

Amazon and HP aren't "playing by the rules," said Nokia's chief licensing officer Nokia has filed lawsuits in the U.S., Germany, India, the U.K. and the European Unified Patent court against Amazon and HP for allegedly infringing several of its patents related to video...

Major multinational European carriers have publicly and repeatedly expressed intent to deploy Open RAN at scale. This is driven by a number of factors chief among them the need to comply with national-level regulations concerning the replacement of equipment from Chinese vendors, as well...

Nokia expects the first release of the 5G-Advanced standard, Release 18, will be completed by 3GPP in the first half of 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will play a key role in future 5G networks, Peter Merz, head of Nokia Standards, told...

Nokia has handed UK-based engineering and services firm NG Bailey a distribution contract to sell its private LTE and 5G solutions into the healthcare, manufacturing, education, infrastructure sectors in the UK. NG Bailey said it will open a 5G demonstration lab at its headquarters...