Nokia Highlights Momentum with 63 Commercial 5G Deals
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Nokia Highlights Momentum with 63 Commercial 5G Deals
- Counts 18 Live Networks and Over 100 5G Agreements
- 5G Momentum Underpinned by Continued Leadership in Cellular
Technology R&D and Standardization
9 January 2020
Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that it had
reached 63 commercial 5G contracts worldwide, positioning it as a
global leader in the delivery of end-to-end 5G solutions. The
figure includes customers such as AT&T, KDDI, Korea Telecom, LG
Uplus, NTT DOCOMO, O2, SK Telecom, SoftBank, Sprint, STC, T-Mobile
US, Verizon, Vodafone Italy and Zain Saudi from key 5G early
adopter and progressive markets.
“This milestone highlights the quality and customer confidence
in our 5G portfolio and we expect this to continue this year with
the addition of many more new deals,” said Tommi Uitto,
President of Mobile Networks at Nokia. “Our global
end-to-end portfolio includes products and services for every part
of a network, which are helping network operators to enable key 5G
capabilities such as network slicing, distributed cloud and the
industrial Internet of Things. We are delighted that our
technologies are helping to shape the delivery and deployment of 5G
technologies worldwide and the myriad benefits these will bring to
businesses and consumers alike.”
The 63 signed commercial contracts exclude any other type of 5G
agreements, such as paid network trials, pilots or demonstrations.
If such agreements were to be included, the total number of 5G
agreements would reach over 100. Nokia is also a vendor of choice
for almost all of the leading early adopter 5G markets. This
includes AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US and Verizon in the US; Korea
Telecom, LG Uplus and SK Telecom in South Korea; NTT DOCOMO, KDDI
and SoftBank in Japan; Vodafone in Italy; O2 in the UK, Optus and
Vodafone Hutchison in Australia; Elisa and Telia in Finland and du
in the UAE and STC and Zain in Saudi Arabia.
“Nokia is the only network supplier whose 5G technology has been
contracted by all four nationwide operators in the US, all three
operators in South Korea and all three nationwide operators in
Japan”, Uitto said. “We have more than 350 customers in 4G, but
these first 63 customers represent some two thirds of our global
Radio Access Networks business in a typical year. Further, these 63
contracts – across the most important pioneering
markets, across low bands, middle bands and high bands, and across
traditional and cloud network architectures – provide us with
invaluable early experiences and insights for the benefit of the
rest of the world. So, it is a great start”, he continued.
Nokia is the only vendor with a globally available end-to-end
product portfolio that covers all 5G network elements, including
radio, core, cloud and transport as well as management, automation
and security. This offers operators and enterprise customers with a
simple and efficient step-wise upgrade to existing radio access,
core and transport domains which helps customers to a faster path
to 5G. Approximately 60% of Nokia’s 5G customers select more than
just New Radio from its end-to-end portfolio.
This momentum in 5G is underpinned by the company’s continued
leadership in cellular technology R&D and standardization.
Nokia also declared more than 2 000 5G patent families as essential
for 5G, a year after making its first declarations for the
standard. Driven by world-class innovations from across the
organization, including the renowned Nokia Bell Labs, it has played
a leading role in contributing technologies to 5G, working with
3GPP to establish 5G standards and enabling the rollout of 5G
networks. It is now contributing towards the next set of standards,
Release 16.
About NokiaWe create the technology to connect
the world. We develop and deliver the industry’s only end-to-end
portfolio of network equipment, software, services and licensing
that is available globally. Our customers include communications
service providers whose combined networks support 6.1 billion
subscriptions, as well as enterprises in the private and public
sector that use our network portfolio to increase productivity and
enrich lives.
Through our research teams, including the world-renowned Nokia
Bell Labs, we are leading the world to adopt end-to-end 5G networks
that are faster, more secure and capable of revolutionizing lives,
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