Vodafone Idea inks 4G network pacts worth $1.4 bn; Huawei, ZTE emerge as major gainers at <span style='color:red'>Nokia</span> expense
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Vodafone Idea inks 4G network pacts worth $1.4 bn; Huawei, ZTE emerge as major gainers at Nokia expense

Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) has finalised new network equipment supply contracts, with Chinese equipment makers Huawei and ZTEemerging major gainers at the expense of European rivals Nokia and Ericsson as India's largest telco focusses on costs in a bid to realise Rs 14,000 crore worth of annual synergies two years ahead of time.After a tight battle for the overall contract likely worth $1.3-1.4 billion (Rs 9,230-9,940 crore), Finland’s Nokia and Sweden’s Ericsson will collectively meet roughly 65% of Vodafone Idea’s network gear requirements, while the two Chinese vendors will handle the remaining 35%, people familiar with the matter said. Previously, the Europeans met some 80% of the cumulative telecom equipment needs of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular before their merger, which was completed on August 31.The newly-created telco is racing against time to merge its dual network to not just save on costs but also to kick off deepening and expansion of its 4G network and increase capacity as it lags erstwhile market leader Bharti Airtel and latest entrant Reliance Jio, and has consequently been losing subscribers. Vodafone Idea have also said it plans to refarm 2G and 3G spectrum and deploy for 4G. “Vodafone Idea will shortly place purchase orders (POs) with Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE for 4G network gear, aggregating roughly $1.3-1.4 billion as nearly 30% of existing equipment will be reused in smaller towns to optimise costs and improve capex efficiency,” one of the people quoted above said.Another person said Vodafone Idea has stepped up gear purchases from Huawei and ZTE as both Chinese network vendors offered more attractive prices and flexibility in payment terms over two to three year-spans unlike Ericsson and Nokia, which had quoted higher rates and sought payments at the point of deployment itself.Nokia and Ericsson though still bagged more circles—nine and eight respectively, to Huawei’s seven and ZTE’s five, all of which were shared with another vendor. Nokia currently provides networks equipment to the combined Vodafone-Idea Cellular entity in 15 circles, followed by Ericsson in 14 circles. Huawei and ZTE supply equipment to VIL in seven and three circles, respectively.In a major win for the Chinese companies, Huawei bagged the latest contracts for both Delhi and Chennai metros, while Ericsson didn’t get a single metro circle. Nokia got Mumbai and Kolkata, and shared the Tamil Nadu circle with Huawei, though it lost out on Chennai. Nokia and Ericsson declined comment while Vodafone Idea, Huawei and ZTE didn’t respond to ET’s emailed queries.Balesh Sharma, chief executive officer of Vodafone Idea, told analysts on Wednesday that the operator had completed its vendor selections for circles and zones. The company, in a presentation, also said it had brought forward by two years to FY21 the annual Rs 14,000-crore run-rate for costs and capex synergies.The latest contracts come as a breather for both Huawei and ZTE who have been facing severe revenue challenges in India due to rapid consolidation in the telecom service provider market, besides facing headwinds in some global markets due to security concerns. Both these vendors have got more circles than previously estimated, due to the mobile phone operator’s focus on keeping costs in check, another person said. "While initially, Vodafone Idea was veering towards the European vendors, Idea’s previous experiences with the Chinese players, especially in terms of running a tight ship, tilted the scales," the person said.The company is facing intense financial pressure. Vodafone Idea posted a loss of Rs 4,974 crore and an earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation margin of 8.1% for the quarter ended September, raising concerns about its ability to service debt that has ballooned to more than Rs 1.15 lakh crore.Rohan Dhamija, partner and head of India & Middle East at Analysys Mason, said Vodafone Idea could have thought about giving more circles to fewer vendors to get bigger volume discounts, which would have helped them in financially turbulent times."However, the decision could be driven by the complexity of the two merged networks, hence the need for enrolling specific vendors in specific circles."
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Release time：2018-11-23 00:00 reading：1038 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Nokia</span> to supply $3.5 billion worth 5G gears to this company
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Nokia to supply $3.5 billion worth 5G gears to this company

T-Mobile US named Nokia to supply it with $3.5 billion in next-generation 5Gnetwork gear, marking the world's largest 5G deal so far and solid evidence of a new wireless upgrade cycle starting to take root. T-Mobile, the third biggest U.S. mobile carrier, said on Monday the Nokia deal would help to deliver the first nationwide 5G services in the United States, where T-Mobile in April agreed to a merger with Sprint to create a more formidable rival to U.S. telecom giants Verizon and AT&T.The T-Mobile award is critical to Nokia, whose results have been battered by years of slowing demand for existing 4G networks and mounting investor doubts over whether 5G contracts can begin to boost profitability later this year."This is our largest 5G deal to date, in fact it's one of our largest-ever deals," Phil Twist, Nokia's global marketing chief said in interview. "This is reinforcing the fact that we see 5G accelerating to market in Q3 and ramping up in Q4."5G networks promise to deliver faster speeds for mobile phone users and make networks more responsive and reliable for the eventual development of new industrial automation, medical monitoring, driverless car and other business uses. But cash-strapped telecom operators around the world have been shy of committing to commercial upgrades of existing networks, with many seeing 5G technology simply as a way to deliver incremental capacity increases instead of new features. Terms of the new deal call for Nokia to supply a range of 5G hardware, software and services that will allow T-Mobile to capitalise on licensed airwave to deliver broad coverage on 600 megahertz spectrum and ultra high-speed capacity on 28 gigahertz airwaves in urban areas with dense traffic, the companies said. Customers, however, will not notice a discernible difference in terms of faster speeds or other features until the first 5G-ready smartphones go on sale in early 2019. Even then, full-featured, 5G phones are unlikely to go mainstream until at least 2020 for a mix of technical and economic reasons, analysts said.Nokia said it will supply T-Mobile with its AirScale radio access platform along with cloud-connected hardware, software and acceleration services, the two companies said.T-Mobile said in February it was working both with Nokia and rival network vendor Ericsson of Sweden to build out 5G networks in 30 U.S. cities during 2018.Ericsson was not immediately available to comment on where it stood on finalising its own previously announced plans to deliver 5G networks in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In first announcing its plans with T-Mobile earlier this year, Nokia had said it was focusing on Dallas and other unnamed "heavily populated areas of the country." It provided no further details on what cities Monday's commercial deal might cover.WAITING FOR 5GNokia delivered lower profits in the first two quarters of 2018 but pledged to meet full-year targets as 5G demand begins to take off later this year. The company reiterated its outlook after the T-Mobile deal, saying it was fully calculated into its existing guidance.Nokia traded up 1.3 percent to 4.76 euros on the Helsinki stock exchange. T-Mobile stock rose more modestly on Nasdaq. The network equipment business, led by China's Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson - has struggled with flagging growth since demand for the current generation of 4G mobile equipment peaked in 2015.Network vendors are counting on rivalry between the four big U.S. mobile carriers to drive initial 5G purchases this year into next. South Korea and Japan are poised to jump in with 5G commercial rollouts in 2019's first half, followed by the world's biggest mobile market, China, later next year, with operators in the Middle East to follow from 2020 onwards. T-Mobile and Sprint, are using 5G to win President Donald Trump's backing for their merger that will reduce the U.S. mobile market from four players to three.They argue the combined company is the United States' best hope for nationwide 5G services, which, in turn, can help the country to maintain technology leadership over China.T-Mobile has previously projected capital spending on new equipment of around $5 billion for 2018. T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray said in the joint statement that every dollar it is spending from now onward will be on 5G-related equipment.
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Release time：2018-07-31 00:00 reading：1059 Continue reading>>
HMD secures $100 million in new funding to expand <span style='color:red'>Nokia</span> smartphone brand
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HMD secures $100 million in new funding to expand Nokia smartphone brand

Nokia-branded devices were on a steady decline for years as Microsoft's Windows Phone platform crashed and burned. For a while, it looked like there may never be another Nokia smartphone, but then HMD stepped in last year to create new devices running Android under the Nokia brand. There will be a lot more of those phones in 2018 thanks to HMD's new round of funding.The company announced today that it secured $100 million in funding from multiple investors. This pushes HMD's value to more than $1 billion, which isn't bad when you consider this is only its second year of existence. It says this investment will help it add new phones to its lineup throughout 2018.HMD needs the cash because it's not actually making money yet. In its first full year of operation, HMD Global had $2.13 billion in revenue. However, it had an operational loss of $77 million. HMD's 2018 portfolio is shaping up nicely, though. Investors must feel like the Nokia name is still worth something to drop cash on a fledgling smartphone maker.
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Release time：2018-05-23 00:00 reading：1100 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Nokia</span>, Q’comm Prep for 5G Trials
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Nokia, Q’comm Prep for 5G Trials

　　SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nokia and Qualcomm completed a lab test of a 5G New Radio connection for 10 carriers that they hope will take their systems into field trials soon. The announcement is the latest step in a marathon toward commercial 5G services stretching this month from the Winter Olympics in South Korea to the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.　　The duo showed a version of Nokia’s AirScale base station and a prototype Qualcomm handset making 5G NR links over 3.5- and 28-GHz bands at a Nokia lab in Oulu, Finland. The FPGA-based systems will provide the basis for field trials with operators this year including BT/EE, Deutsche Telekom, Elisa, KT, LGU+, NTT DOCOMO, Optus, SKT, Telia, and Vodafone Group. The companies hope that the trials lead to commercial deployments of a variety of 5G services next year in China, Europe, Korea, Japan, and the United States.　　Qualcomm and Nokia’s rival, Ericsson, staged a competing lab demo over the same bands just after the 5G NR spec was completed in December. Their partners included AT&T, NTT Docomo, Orange, SK Telecom, Verizon, and Vodafone. The effort followed a test in late November at a China Mobile lab using a prototype base station from China’s ZTE and a Qualcomm test handset.　　Later this week, South Korea will showcase a pre-standard 5G network at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang using gear from Intel and Samsung. Later this month, the MWC event in Spain will be about “5G going commercial — how to get the return on investment and put artificial intelligence into the networks,” said Phil Twist, an engineer-now-head-of-marketing for mobile networks at Nokia, speaking in a pre-MWC press briefing.　　Nokia will show at MWC a version of its 5G ReefShark chipset for base stations. The company designed its AirScale base stations to support a ReefShark module that upgrades them from handling 28 Gbits/second of LTE traffic to 84 Gbits/s of 5G.　　Multiple modules with the 10-nm chipsets can work together to support throughput up to the 6-Tbit/s limit of the AirScale’s backplane. Nokia claims as many as 30 customers for ReefShark, some with deployment plans this year.　　At the handset, vendors are expected to show devices supporting as many as 20 data streams using 4x4 MIMO antennas and up to five 20-MHz carriers. Such techniques will push advanced LTE and 5G beyond today’s gigabit LTE with mobile broadband services that some carriers are interested in rolling out as early as this fall.　　The push for speed could keep Qualcomm ahead of Intel, its rival in handset baseband chips. Intel announced in November plans to support CDMA and gigabit speeds in its 2018 cellular modems and up to 1.6-Gbit/s downlinks in 2019.　　In the race to 5G, the new NR spec was “the one everyone was waiting for … we have a first version of one variant running, and many more variants will come,” said Twist.　　RF chips and backhaul options also will come in many flavors. For example, Nokia is developing base station radios using three-carrier aggregation for high capacity as well as beamforming radio heads for high bandwidth. In backhaul, it is designing microwave, IP, and optical options.　　With the 5G radio standard set, the next big agenda item is network slicing. A final standard for this version of virtualized radio is still in the works, with the next big pieces due in June, said Twist.
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Qualcomm and <span style='color:red'>Nokia</span> collaborate on mobile 5G NR deployments
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Qualcomm and Nokia collaborate on mobile 5G NR deployments

　　Qualcomm Technologies and Nokia are to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on the 5G New Radio (NR) Release-15 specifications being developed by 3GPP.　　The testing and trials are intended to help drive the mobile ecosystem toward faster validation and commercialisation of 5G NR technologies at scale, and to enable commercial network launches in 2019 based on 3GPP standard compliant 5G NR infrastructure and devices.　　A recent consumer survey conducted by Qualcomm Technologies has revealed that 48% of the respondents are likely to purchase a smartphone that supports 5G, when it's available, and 5G was found to be the top feature that consumers were willing to pay more for in their next mobile device.　　Those and other research findings suggest that there is a clear and growing industry interest for 5G mobility applications to meet increasing mobile broadband needs and emerging use case requirements globally.　　In the testing and trials, the companies will showcase 5G NR technologies to achieve multi-gigabit per second data rates at latencies as low as 1-millisecond and significantly better reliability than is currently the case with existing networks..　　These technologies are seen as critical to meeting the connectivity requirements that are associated with streaming high-fidelity video, immersive virtual/augmented reality, and connected cloud computing, as well as enabling new high-reliability, low-latency services for use cases such as autonomous vehicles, drones and industrial equipment.　　The testing and trials will use Nokia’s 5G FIRST solution, incorporating the Nokia AirScale base station transmitting over the 5G NR radio interface to the device prototype from Qualcomm Technologies. The companies will look to test end-to-end applications over-the-air between the base station and the device to simulate real-world scenarios across a broad set of 5G NR use cases and deployment scenarios. The testing will include 5G NR operation in sub-6 GHz spectrum bands such as 3.5 GHz and 4.5 GHz, as well as millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum bands such as 28 GHz and 39 GHz, to trial the 5G NR unified design across diverse spectrum bands.　　To demonstrate the performance and efficiency enhancements 5G NR will bring, the testing and trials will showcase advanced 3GPP 5G NR technologies including Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna technology, beamforming techniques, adaptive self-contained TDD, scalable OFDM-based waveforms to support wider bandwidths, advanced coding and modulation schemes, and a new flexible, low-latency slot structure based design. This will include 5G NR operation in mmWave spectrum, employing advanced 5G NR antenna technology to deliver robust and sustained mobile broadband communications, including non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments and device mobility.　　The interoperability testing, which is to start in the second half of 2017, is intended to track closely with the first 3GPP 5G NR specification that will be part of Release 15. Both companies are also collaborating with network operators to conduct 5G NR over-the-air field trials starting in 2018 across various regions including China, Europe, Japan, and the USA.　　Tracking the 3GPP specification is important because it promotes adherence and validation with the global 5G standard, accelerating the time to standard-compliant devices and infrastructure. It will also ensure forward compatibility to future 3GPP 5G NR releases.
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Release time：2017-09-12 00:00 reading：1273 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Nokia</span> Touts NPU for Internet's Next Chapter
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Nokia Touts NPU for Internet's Next Chapter

　　Claiming capabilities that will enable the next phase of Internet evolution, Nokia on Wednesday (June 14) unveiled its next-generation service routers, based on a network processor capable of an eye-popping 2.4 Tb/s performance.　　The chip, the Nokia FP4, is implemented in a 16nm FinFET process—two full nodes ahead of its predecessor, the 40nm FP3. Nokia bills the FP4 as "the world's first multi-terabit chipset" and claims it is up to six times more powerful than any processor currently available despite relatively low power consumption.　　Speaking at a launch event here Wednesday, Basil Alwan president of the IP/Optical Networks business unit at Nokia, offered an ambitious blueprint for the FP4's potential impact on the continuing evolution of the Internet, and the onset of what he termed "cloud-scale routing." He said the chipset offers the performance and heightened security to enable further transformations of the Internet and the Cloud, including immersive communications, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the growth of applications that leverage artificial intelligence.　　"It's fundamental innovation for cloud-scale routing," Alwan said, adding that the FP4 "meets all the requirements for the next chapter of Internet growth."　　Ken Kutlzer, vice president of hardware engineering and hardware product management for Nokia's IP/optical networking business unit, speaks at the product unveiling in San Francisco Wednesday.　　Ken Kutlzer, vice president of hardware engineering and hardware product management for Nokia's IP/optical networking business unit, speaks at the product unveiling in San Francisco Wednesday.　　The FP4 represents Nokia's push to leverage its strength in edge routing to making a meaningful dent in the core router market that has long been dominated by Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. It powers Nokia's new "petabit-class" 7950 Extensible Routing System for core routing, claimed by the company to be the world's highest capacity router.　　According to Ray Mata, CEO and principal analyst at ACG Research, Nokia has gained enough credibility with network operators through its success in edge routing — where it is the No. 2 player —  to make some noise in the critical core routing market, where performance and reliability are paramount.　　"This gives an opportunity for Nokia to enter into that arena and potentially increase their total available market," Mata said.
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Release time：2017-06-16 00:00 reading：1017 Continue reading>>

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