US analyst group reckons Open RAN sales in 2020 to be 50% higher than previously predicted, but advises against making longer term assumptions.

Kester Mann, Director, Consumer and Connectivity at CCS Insight, says new solutions are accelerating the Swedish vendor’s move toward open architectures.

They cover the access ecosystem, from fixed mobile convergence, to the access gateway function and customer premises equipment.

The operator said the new services are more flexible and optimise networks for cloud services. Separately, it announced investment in AI.

Nokia’s 7750 Service Router portfolio will replace and upgrade IP edge and core networks, starting in Greece and Hungary.


Nuremburg-based MYNXG will use a Nokia 5G network to develop new secure solutions for industrial IoT (IIoT).

It has repackaged services into a more comprehensive portfolio, but the real story is the platform and vendor ecosystem it supports.

Russia’s largest mobile operator has partnered with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, to build a digital ecosystem based on open source.

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Since June, five published specifications cover new areas, while the rest are updates to existing standards.

We held a virtual roundtable with the nine CTOs and CTIOs from operators shortlisted for our CTO of the Year Awards 2020, from diverse markets. The discussion was lively, illuminating and wide ranging.

As one of the biggest providers of highly integrated systems, the Swedish giant has been slow to support the move to divide software from dedicated hardware.

The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) board has launched a 6G project, while continuing its 5G efforts.

The Swedish regulator cited spying from Beijing and technology theft, having taken advice from the country's security services and armed forces.

The operator has signed “an exclusive 5G alliance” for Nordics and Baltics with Nokia – except Ericsson is supplying 5G infra in Sweden and Estonia, as well as Norway.

Billed income expected to hit $357 billion (€304.6 billion) by then as Juniper Research finds that 5G “highly resilient” to the pandemic.

Deployment of the Swedish vendor’s standalone core technology will start underway later this year.

The new industry group is far from the first country to launch a 6G programme and not all the vendor members are American either.

Vivacom was already found to provide Europe’s fastest network in Q1/Q2 2020 by Ookla.

It's a sweet moment for one of three largest network equipment vendors which has had a rough ride for “being late” to the 5G party.