Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has signed an agreement with Nokia at MWC to power Taiwan’s 5G development.
Chunghwa Telecom and Nokia plan to share the latest 3GPP and ITU design concepts, product launches, innovative projects, and spectrum plans on 5G technologies to expand researches and applications on 5G, cloud, IoT and network automation services.
Chunghwa Telecom will cooperate with Nokia to develop key enablers for 5G and IoT, including mobile edge computing and cloud RAN for 5G virtualization architecture, to reduce the number of base station centers and power consumption.
More efforts will be dedicated into experiments for Narrowband IoT, which means to support IoT devices with larger coverage than traditional LTE networks, as it can track devices at indoor corners and remote villages. The agreement also covers experiments for network function virtualization.
Source: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/chunghwa-telecom-signs-5g-partnership-deal-with-nokia--1185853