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5G gateway in select stores with a view to gaining
‘immediate access to gigabit peak speeds in their
home’. Nokia’s FastMile 5G gateway forms part of Telia
Finland’s 5G device and subscription launch in Finland
and is currently available to customers in Helsinki,
Vantaa and Oulu, with plans to expand to ‘other major
cities’ in future. Janne Koistinen, 5G Program Manager
for Telia Finland, said: ‘We want customers to enjoy the
benefits of 5G regardless of where they are, and Nokia
is an important partner helping us achieve this. With
Fixed Wireless Access solutions like Nokia’s Fastmile 5G
Gateway, our customer will be able to quickly leverage
our end-to-end 5G network and enhanced services to
support all of their ultra-broadband needs in the home.’

Nokia Secures KDDI 5G Deal

KDDI Corporation, a leading telecoms will support KDDI across both cmWave our long-term relationship. As an end-to-
company in Japan, has selected Nokia as a and mmWave 5G frequency bands and end supplier of multiple technologies to
primary partner to upgrade its 4G network can be deployed in both distributed and KDDI, we look forward to transforming the
to 5G with Nokia’s industry-leading radio centralized architectures. The network will network and launching 5G for consumers
access solution AirScale, which supports be deployed across Japan and will deliver and industries.” Nokia currently has 48
both 4G and 5G operations. This will allow enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) global 5G commercial contracts, including
KDDI to modernize its 4G network and to consumers and enhanced Machine live networks in the US, Latin America,
meet the growing consumer and industrial Type Communication (eMTC) enabling Europe, Korea and Australia. Our track
demands for 5G. The contract for 5G multiple new applications and services record of providing the world’s best
radio re-enforces the strong relationship for industries in the 5G era. The network performing 4G networks*, reflects well in
between the two companies, which dates architecture will also be transformed to our 5G commercial success. In fact, all our
back over two decades. Nokia is an enable 5G Ultra Reliable Low Latency LTE customers that announced 5G plans
existing supplier to KDDI across multiple Connectivity (URLLC). John Harrington, have continued with us, showing their
technologies, including radio, fixed Head of Nokia Japan, said: “This deal will faith in the power of Nokia’s end-to-end
networks, mobile core network and multiple allow KDDI to get ready for the 5G era and portfolio.
software solutions. The 5G network we are honored and excited to continue

Nokia Celebrates Twelve Months of 5G Achievements

continents and in a wide range of technology areas. In addition,
as North America is thus far the world’s largest 5G market, Nokia
has positioned itself as the leading vendor with the largest 5G
population coverage footprint. Chief among the achievements in
the past 12 months are six world firsts in 5G secured by Nokia’s
technology and its people, including:
• The first environment for verification to develop the connected
car using 5G, enabled by Nokia’s 3GPP-standard base stations
for Softbank
• The first tests into new aspects of the 5G standard in real-
world industrial conditions at the Port of Hamburg in Germany,
together with the Hamburg Port Authority and Deutsche
Telekom
The first over-the-air 5G data transmission using 2.5 GHz and
Nokia is celebrating twelve months of 5G ‘firsts’: a milestone massive MIMO antenna technology, on Sprint’s live commercial
defined by 23 game-changing achievements in the field of 5G. Over network in San Diego, together with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
a twelve-month period that started on 6 September 2018 with the and Sprint
first over-the-air, end-to-end data transmission on a commercial Nokia has also helped to power seven technology firsts in 5G,
3GPP 5G New Radio network in partnership with Verizon, Nokia which along with the September 2018 Verizon trial include:
has gone forward to achieve an additional 22 5G firsts in six • The first 8K Ultra High Definition TV streaming in real conditions

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