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Italian telco Telecom Italia (TIM) continued its longstanding smart city technology collaboration with Turin city council by switching on what the operator describes as Europe’s first 5G “Edge Cloud” live network with connected drones, the operator said in a release. …

Equipment vendors envisage automated networks of a million slices The conference portion of the Brooklyn 5G Summit began with a bit of nostalgia befitting the show’s modest, but pertinent milestone of its fifth annual gathering. The show began with Marcus …

Nokia set to split Global Services business from its Mobile Networks division and redraw executive responsibilities beginning April 1. Nokia is set for a major reshuffling of business operations, announcing plans to break its Mobile Networks business into a pair …

Nokia’s Nuage Networks division to see its SDN Virtualized Services Platform used to support 2,000 public cloud servers for China Mobile. Nokia’s Nuage Networks division snagged a deal with China Mobile to deploy the vendor’s Virtualized Services Platform as part …

Travelers arriving at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport are getting an eye opening experience. Visitors are surprised to see toothy alligators and snapping turtles at the Tennessee Aquarium – located nearly 10 miles away. It’s part of a live streaming video experience …

NICE, France – Continuing its commercialization of “5G”-oriented products, Nokia released its NetAct Cloud management system, which it said can be deployed in variable data center configurations to help cut cost and speed deployment time. Peter Patomella, VP of network management …

NICE, France – Continuing its commercialization of “5G”-oriented products, Nokia released its NetAct Cloud management system, which it said can be deployed in variable data center configurations to help cut cost and speed deployment time. Peter Patomella, VP of network management …

Nokia said lower mobile network sales hit business, but highlighted the positive integration with Alcatel-Lucent Nokia recorded 5.6 billion euros ($6.38 billion) in net sales for the first quarter of 2016, down from 6.1 billion euros in the same quarter last year. …

SK Telecom posted Q1 growth highlighting continued growth among LTE and smartphone users, with planned focus on IoT expansion SK Telecom said it added 295,000 mobile customers during the first quarter, pushing its total customer base to 28.92 million subscribers. …

Up to 15,000 Nokia employees could lose their jobs by 2018 A year after announcing plans to acquire Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Networks is looking to save $1 billion in costs in part by cutting up to 14% of its approximately 104,000-strong global …

Network resources set to be shared by several government agencies The Dubai government’s security network provider, Nedaa Professional Communication, selected Nokia Networks to deploy a smart city solution based on next-generation network technology. The solution is being designed to support …

Dutch telco KPN looks to launch VoLTE services this year Dutch telecom operator KPN announced plans to save 300 million euro ($329 million) per year by 2019, under a new strategic plan covering the next three-to-five years. KPN said its …

Issues of site acquisition, backhaul and power have been significant small cell deployment challenges, but the industry is starting to get a better handle on how to address them – and as a result, small cell deployments began to ramp …

Firms explain the MEC demo taps edge video orchestration to support streaming content Nokia Networks and U.K.-based operator EE demonstrated a pair of mobile edge computing-enabled services run over a MEC-enabled network at the recent Mobile World Congress event. The …

Verizon Communications has started “5G” field tests with Nokia Networks, testing pre-standards technology in Verizon’s live network in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Verizon and Nokia said they tested an “extreme broadband” use case to look at the viability of replacing …

T-Mobile 5G plans include trials work this year with Nokia and Ericsson with expected post-2020 commercial launch T-Mobile US is the latest domestic operator to get in on the “5G” craze, announcing plans with Ericsson and Nokia Networks to begin …

Nokia unveiled new ‘5G’-ready radio access solution BARCELONA, Spain – Finnish vendor Nokia Networks expects to see initial deployments of “5G” networks before 2020, according to company CEO Rajeev Suri. “2020 is probably where we see global volume deployments but …

In final results before combination with Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Networks sees solid growth in Greater China, EMEA regions Finnish vendor Nokia recorded net sales of 3.6 billion euro ($4.05 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2015, up from 3.5 billion euro …

Open Compute Project launches telco focus with support from DT, EE, SK, Verizon and AT&T The Open Compute Project, which was formed five years ago under the umbrella of reimagining the design of servers and other hardware used in data …

KT uses Nokia Flexi Multiradio 10 in its LTE network South Korean operator KT and equipment provider Nokia recently conducted what the companies say is the industry’s first enhanced machine type communications field trial. The trial was conducted on KT’s …

Nokia Networks set to deploy LTE infrastructure for Vodafone in three circles Finnish telecom equipment provider Nokia Networks reportedly was awarded a three-year contract to provide LTE network infrastructure for Indian mobile operator Vodafone in three telecoms circles, The Times …

China Mobile plans to deploy 300,000 base stations next year, expand VoLTE, carrier aggregation The world’s largest mobile operator China Mobile aims to reach 500 million LTE subscribers by the end of 2016, according to Chinese press reports. China Mobile …

Organization looks to tap open source to boost SDN applications Nokia Networks, ARM and Enea announced the launch of the OpenFastPath Foundation, which the companies claim will tap an open source approach in boosting performance of software-defined networking applications. The …

Telecom solutions powerhouse Nokia completed the sale of its Here mapping and services unit to a group of German automakers comprised of Audi, BMW and Daimler-Benz for more than $3 billion. According to the company, “Nokia received net proceeds from …

The transaction is expected to be completed in Q1 2016 Shareholders of Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia approved the proposed $16.5 billion acquisition of French-based supplier Alcatel-Lucent. Nokia has obtained all the regulatory approvals required to proceed with the proposed transaction. …