BROWSING: Nokia

It’s been a busy time for 5G launches. It started with Verizon and AT&T towards the end of 2018 followed by a flurry of recent announcements from Korea, China and more in the US. So, are we there yet? Is the long car ride...

Cellular technology companies with substantial device businesses — including Huawei and Samsung today, and Nokia until it sold its handset business in 2014 — generate no more than modest net licensing revenues, despite the significant Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) portfolio sizes they have declared. Crucially,...

Antje Williams, Executive Programme Manager for 5G, Deutsche Telekom – “We have a huge divide at the moment in the industry, in the country, how operators can serve industries best. There are lots of complaints about how operators have served industry so far, which...

Automated network slicing--a fully virtualized network infrastructure capable of creating on-demand data pipes that exactly meet the needs of a given application--is a long-term goal of 5G investment. In pursuit of that goal, Verizon recently tested virtualization of the Radio Access Network using Nokia...

India’s incumbent telecom operators are expected to launch 5G trials in June after a panel at the Telecom Ministry has recommended spectrum for the tests, local press reported. The panel, which deliberated on the amount of necessary spectrum and duration of the 5G trial, has recommended 5G spectrum...

The Spanish government has issued the permits for two 5G pilot programs in the country, which will be funded by financial resources from the state and the European Union (EU). The two 5G trials will require a total investment of over $40 million. Around $11 million will be co-funded by...

Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes. The pair have signed a “strategic” memorandum-of-understanding to carry out joint research into “smart connected cars, industrial IoT, smart manufacturing...

Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes ahead of its official release as an industrial band with the country’s wider 5G...

Finnish vendor Nokia and Italian operator Telecom Italia have joined with six international agri-tech firms on a smart agriculture initiative, ConectarAGRO, that seeks to bring connectivity, automation and intelligence to 93 per cent of Brazilian farmers. The Brazilian arm of Telecom Italia (TIM...

Finnish vendor Nokia announced the launch of its Nokia Open Innovation Challenge (NOIC), through which the company aims to attract technology startups with innovative and disruptive solutions for the industrial automation segment. Nokia said that the winners of this global competition will be provided with...

Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri was crystal clear in an earnings call this week that the first quarter of 2019 was weak, but the network infrastructure vendor is sticking to its full-year guidance based on the expectation that 5G will deliver in the second-half of...

Nokia will provide the cellular plumbing for a new €18 million public-private research initiative into the application of 5G in the industrial space. The project, which goes under the moniker 5G Vertical Integrated Industry for Massive Automation (5G VIIMA), is being billed as a...

Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a four-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Kokkola, also in Finland. The Port of Kokkola is the third largest ‘general’ port in Finland. It is also...

Bell Labs researching 90 GHz for future 6G Marcus Weldon, president of Nokia Bell Labs and the vendor's chief technology officer, made clear in a presentation at the Brooklyn 5G Summit that 6G--"beyond 5G" if you prefer, will likely follow previous generations of cellular with...

Global 5G discussion marked by "confrontational" language With President Donald Trump recently entering the 5G global discourse and furthering the characterization of deployment as an international race, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri commented that, "What if to squeeze the most juice out of 5G, the question...

Manufacturing, energy and transport among 5G focuses French telecommunications group Orange is currently working with a number of compatriot businesses to develop future uses of 5G technology. The announcement was made at the Orange Business Summit, taking place this week in Paris, France. “5G will not be just another new...

Nokia and Cellcom Israel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deploy Sensing as a Service in Israel with the main aim of creating a real-time environmental data offering using Cellcom Israel's existing radio infrastructure. Nokia Sensing as a Service allows the re-use of existing radio sites to...

In Germany, they’ve made a verb out of the UK’s protracted divorce from the European Union: ‘to Brexit’ - sich verabschieden, aber nicht gehen (to say goodbye, but fail to leave). It was a joke doing the rounds at Hannover Messe 2019 last week,...

HANNOVER, Germany--Based on conversations with executives from network infrastructure vendors Nokia and Ericsson during the Hannover Messe industrial fair, both companies see the mining industry as a huge opportunity for driving private network sales. So, of all the industrial verticals to pick from, why...

HANNOVER, Germany--Rival network infrastructure vendors Nokia and Ericsson staked out slightly different stances regarding how to bring private networks to industries at Mobile World Congress. The conversation on what makes a private network private continued this week at the Hannover Messe industrial fair. Before we...

HANNOVER, Germany--Nokia has made clear it sees private networks for industrial users as a market segment with huge potential. And, this week at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in a country with a massive industrial economic base, Stephane Daeuble, Nokia's head of industry...

Telecoms veterans Nokia and Qualcomm have a deployed 5G network and a number of 5G test devices at Hannover Messe 2019 for various European industrial giants including Bosch, Siemens, and Volkswagen to put next-generation industrial connectivity through its paces. The pair are working in...

Both vendors publicly working with AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile US on 5G With first-blush services turned up in the U.S. and a few other key global markets, operators are planning to scale out 5G networks throughout 2019. And, with a pipeline full of compatible commercial...

Bosch has raised more than €1.5 billion in revenue from the implementation of Industry 4.0 techniques in its own factories, as well as its customers’ factories, during the past four years, it has said. The company has set an incremental revenue target of €1...