On Tuesday, Nokia stated it has won a multi-year contract with Bharti Airtel, India’s third-largest telecom, to provide equipment and services. Nokia’s deal will essentially lay the foundation for providing 5G connectivity in the future for India, will see Nokia install and deploy nearly 300,000 radio network units across 9 circles in India. “This is…
In a statement, Xilinx Inc, an American semiconductor firm stated, it had won a deal to supply chips to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for 5G networking equipment. It did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Xilinx makes programmable chips used in telecommunications equipment including those used in base stations made by Ericsson, Nokia…
Nokia is focussing more resources to develop its system on chip integrated circuits. On Wednesday, in a statement, Finnish giant Nokia said, it has hired hundreds of engineers in Finland during 2019 in order to speed up development of its 5G solution. Last week, Nokia, which has competitors such as Ericsson and Huawei, had slashed…
Military to military discussions on future 5G networks are going well, said Ellen Lord, the Department of Defense’s under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment. With the United States determined to secure and position itself for the next generation of 5G devices, it is conscientiously pushing away Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies, which…
The fund is aimed at getting a better understanding on how 5G data can be optimally managed in all aspects including cybersecurity. In a statement, the Canadian government stated, it will provide $30 million (C$40 million) in funding to Finland-based Nokia for research on 5G wireless technology. The funding will help Nokia better get a…
Huawei equipment has a price advantage: sourcing from non-Chinese sources is likely to drive up costs. Security comes at a price. In a significant development, China’s Huawei is facing fresh headwinds in Europe following an announcement by Deutsche Telekom that it would review its vendor strategy; Orange has also stated it would not use its…
SoftBank will also source its 5G network equipment from Nokia and Ericsson rather than from Huawei: Nikkei In a significant development, Japan’s Nikkei has reported without citing sources, SoftBank Group Corp plans on replacing 4G network equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd with equivalent hardware from Nokia and Ericsson. Further, for its 5G network,…
With many countries deciding to ban China’s Huawei from providing 5G equipment for their national grid, Nokia is likely to benefit from such market opportunities. On Thursday, Finnish telecom giant Nokia stated it will merge its mobile networks as well as fixed networks business groups into a new unit called Access Networks. The reorganization comes…
The development comes midst efforts by China to merge two of the nation’s top wireless carriers to speed up the development of 5G mobile services. 5G will play a strategic and significant role in the coming years. On Wednesday, Finland’s mobile telecom network maker Nokia stated, it has signed a $2.3 billion (2 billion euros)…
The development is aimed at placing Europe on par with the U.S. and China vis-a-vis 5G. While the U.S. and China have moved rapidly to deploy the nascent 5G technology, Europe is not one to be left behind. Although the development of 5G mobile networks are still nascent, so as to develop them further Telecom…
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