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Nokia Subscriber Data Management Software Selected by Jazz to Drive New

Customer Services and Experience

will allow Jazz to use network automation
for zero-touch capacity scaling. In addition,
Nokia NetAct will provide a consolidated
view of multi-domain, multi-technology
networks for ensuring the best network
experience. Abdul Rehman Usmani, Vice
President, Network at Jazz, said: “Being the
largest digital mobile operator in Pakistan,
Jazz is playing a key role in the country’s
digitalization journey. Our extended collab-
oration with Nokia will help us further im-
prove the customer experience by ensuring
network resilience and rapidly launch new
consumer and business services. Nokia's
industry-proven solution will help us to-
wards readiness of any future technolo-
Nokia announced that Jazz, Pakistan’s larg- centers in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and gies, while enhancing the growing needs
est mobile operator, has selected Nokia’s Faisalabad to ensure network availability of the existing networks.” Imran Durrani,
latest Subscriber Data Management (SDM) as a disaster recovery solution. The deploy- Head of Customer Team for Jazz at Nokia,
software to enhance HLR/HSS network re- ment, an extension of an existing collabo- said: “Nokia SDM’s software will provide
siliency and accelerate new product and ration, will help Jazz deliver its digital trans- Jazz with a consolidated multi-technology
services for Jazz customers. As part of a formation-related ambitions by allowing network and enhance its digital services
phased expansion and deployment strate- auto-provisioning of devices and services by allowing the operator to auto-provision
gy, the network will be gradually modern- at massive scale to accelerate Pakistan’s new devices at scale. We look forward to
ized to fully cloud-based SDM architecture digitalization. Nokia SDM’s software will expanding our longstanding relationship
by 2025. The modernization strategy will reduce the provisioning time for new sub- with Jazz for this crucial project as part of
enable Jazz to deploy fully geographical- scribers, services and functionalities. The its network modernization transformation.”
ly redundant active networks in four data cloud transformation of the SDM network

Nokia and Safaricom Complete FWA 5G Slicing Trial

Nokia has announced that it has success- Nokia’s AirScale 4G/5G base stations, the tailoring our service offerings to individu-
fully piloted 4G and 5G fixed wireless ac- NetAct network management and assur- al customers and industries, to meet their
cess (FWA) network slicing with Kenyan ance system and Nokia’s FastMile 4G/5G needs for high speed connectivity precisely
operator Safaricom on its live commercial CPE. James Maitai, Network Director of Sa- and without unnecessary cost. Nokia’s ex-
network. The Finnish vendor claims that it faricom, said: ‘We are proud to have hosted pertise has been key to this success, and
is the first time that 4G/5G network slicing Africa’s first successful pilot of 4G/5G FWA we anticipate many more strategic wins in
has been successfully achieved in Africa. slicing on our network, and look forward to this area as our business expands.’
The trial utilized a multi-vendor network
environment and included RAN, transport
and core as well as software upgrades to a
range of Nokia’s products and services. The
successful trial demonstrates that Safar-
icom is now poised to support new types of
enterprise network services, including fast
lane internet access and application slicing.
In addition, Nokia is enabling secured FWA
slice connectivity to enterprise locations,
as well as to private or public application
clouds. The multi-vendor pilot, which took
place in Kenya’s Western Region, demon-
strated a number of solutions including

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