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Nokia Helps Telia Denmark Achieve Superior Network Performance

Nokia announced that its network
technology and services have helped Telia
Denmark achieve the number one position
for network performance – placing it ahead
of the competition - in recent independent
drive testing in the country’s four largest
cities. The tests assessed the quality of the
country's mobile radio network coverage
and were performed by umlaut, part of
Accenture, an industrial and organizational
advisory research and benchmarking
firm. Nokia provides Telia Denmark
with equipment from its latest energy-
efficient 5G AirScale portfolio as well as
core network and managed operations position in umlaut’s recent survey and MIMO antennas to deliver enhanced ultra-
support, which has strengthened Telia's that is a testament to a lot of hard work fast, low-latency, and high-capacity mobile
network performance and enabled the and cooperation.” Tommi Uitto, President broadband services to Denmark’s four
company to drive better service delivery of Mobile Networks at Nokia said: “High- largest cities. Nokia’s support for Telia’s
outcomes for its customers. Nokia is performance radio networks are the core network includes providing its high-
the exclusive supplier of 5G RAN (Radio key to delivering an outstanding mobile performance Cloud Packet Core, robust
Access Network) to TTN, the joint network user experience. We take great pride in Subscriber Data Management, and data
of Telenor and Telia in Denmark, covering helping Telia achieve this success with consolidation in the Shared Data Layer.
more than 4,300 sites and serving over our market-leading AirScale portfolio Nokia also provided end-to-end optimization
three million subscribers nationwide. Nokia and efficiencies enabled by Managed services to maintain premium network
is also providing its Cloud Packet Core and Operations. The combined strength of performance. Nokia Managed Operations
Registers in order to deliver advanced 5G the RAN and Core products and Managed support for Telia Denmark included
services, as well as the network flexibility, Operations we provide to Telia have really performing network analysis and then
scale, and performance to allow Telia helped them to get the best out of their mapping improvement areas, particularly
Denmark to meet its customer demands. network. We look forward to continuing this in the areas of voice and data. Nokia and
Daniel Askeroth, CTO at Telia Denmark important partnership and strengthening Telia Denmark tested and implemented
said: “The Telia Denmark and Nokia teams Telia’s position as Denmark’s best changes, driving efficiencies through AI and
have done a superb job optimizing the network.” Nokia provided TTN with a full quality methodologies that led to across-
performance of Telia Denmark’s network network deployment including strategic the-board network quality enhancements.
in order to provide our customers with design, planning, RAN optimization, and With customers in 55 countries, Nokia
important service delivery improvements. implementation. This included products Managed Operations supports more than 1
These very positive outcomes are also from its latest energy-efficient AirScale billion subscribers globally in multi-vendor
reflected in Telia Denmark’s No. 1 network product portfolio including 5G Massive network environments.

Nokia Introduces New Wavence Microwave Solutions to Extend the Reach
of 5G Deployments in Both Urban and Rural Environments

Nokia today announced the availability three-foot antenna that combats common energy efficiency with twice the transmit
of the UBT-m XP, the latest addition to its E-Band issues, which include tower power compared to the industry average.
award-winning Wavence product family vibrations and movements due to thermal In recent tests, Nokia demonstrated a
designed to support mobile operators effects. Combined with the UBT-m XP, it can 12-kilometer-long link using the Nokia
and enterprises with premium coverage in increase the typical E-Band link distance by UBT-m XP and the SteadEband antenna.
both dense urban and rural environments. up to 50 percent, helping mobile operators Nokia also announced the launch of the
Nokia’s newest E-Band radio is a high- deliver multi-gigabit 5G connectivity to their Outdoor Channel Aggregator (OCA) to
capacity outdoor unit with a small, light customers. These new products address support mobile operators looking to expand
form factor and the highest transmit power all use cases for improving link distance as the reach and capacity of their networks
available on the market; ideal for urban well as the energy efficiency of the Wavence for rural broadband applications. The
microwave transport applications. It is portfolio. The UBT-m XP is a single ultra- OCA aggregates multiple UBT-T XP radios,
joined in an industry first by the launch broadband transceiver with an integrated Nokia’s high-capacity, high-power, outdoor
of the Nokia SteadEband, a stabilized modem and diplexer, offering best-in-class dual-band radio, for N+0 operations and

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