Nokia launches 5G Acceleration Services

Nokia has launched a new service designed to help operators develop a plan for their 5G transformation.

The new Nokia 5G Acceleration Services will help operators carry out the required business, network and operational transformation to prepare for a 5G programmable world.

Operators will be able to develop a tailored transformation plan, prepare and design multi-vendor 5G networks and define the pace of investment and adoption of new technologies.

Services will include collaborative customer workshops, technical and economic analysis, a 5G spectrum assessment, technology workshops and radio access network design support.

IDC research director for EMEA Telecommunications commented that industry adoption of 5G will take a different path compared to 4G.

“For one thing, this time the use cases are developing ahead of the technical standard. That’s healthy for the industry, but will also require networks to support myriad performance profiles fairly rapidly,” he said.

“Operators thus have to make sure that their 5G evolution plans incorporate both upgrades to their networks and advancements in their operational capabilities. If they can start to monetize new use cases while still migrating toward 5G, so much the better.”

At CTIA Super Mobility 2016, tomorrow, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri plans to lay out the ways the vendor is preparing operators for the coming of 5G – including by commercially launching 4.5G Pro network technologies – and to highlight emerging use-cases for 5G.