Nokia and U.S. Cellular to modernise 5G capabilities for enhanced customer experiences - VanillaPlus - The global voice of Telecoms IT
Nokia and U.S. Cellular have agreed to add 5G mmWave capabilities in the 24 GHz and 28 GHz spectrum bands.U.S. Cellular will deploy Nokia's AirScale portfolio, with Cloud RAN capabilities, to provide enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) 5G mmWave.
The Nokia AirFrame open edge solution for Cloud RAN will also be included in the deployments, enabling a virtualised RAN that provides scalable benefits such as, significant Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction through simplification automation and operation efficiency gains, as well as through the support of open ecosystems.
To support U.S. Cellular's advanced IoT and enterprise customers, the company has also opted to include Nokia's Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) solution as a deployment component, which allows the scaling of 5G IoT services faster and more cost-effectively.
