Elisa expands 5G network across Lapland
Finnish telco Elisa has fired up new 5G networks across Lapland, extending its coverage to 197 locations and 9 ski centres in Finland.
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Nokia claims new 5G uplink speed record
Finnish kit vendor Nokia teamed up with compatriot MNO Elisa and US mobile chip firm Qualcomm to hit uplink speeds of 2.1 Gbps using 5G over mmWave.
Elisa gets further into bed with Google Cloud
Finnish telco Elisa has brought in hyperscaler Google Cloud to build out new public cloud facilitated services.
Nokia lands all of Elisa Estonia’s 5G RAN work in vendor swap
Finnish kit vendor Nokia has continued its 5G redemption by landing the whole gig at the Estonian subsidiary of Finnish operator Elisa, replacing the incumbent vendor in the process.
Deutsche Messe turns to DT and Siemens for mega 5G campus
German operator Deutsche Telekom and industry juggernaut Siemens are going to build two separate private 5G networks on the ground of the Hanover trade fair.
Nokia claims new 5G speed record for a commercial network
On its home turf of Finland, in partnership with Elisa and Qualcomm, Nokia says it hit 8 Gbps by combining two devices.
Nokia signals its technology virtue
Finnish kit vendor Nokia has been getting involved with liquid cooling 5G base stations and dynamically refarming loads of spectrum.
Swisscom, SK Telecom, Elisa and BICS claim world’s first 5G roaming services
The very small number of people who are capable and inclined can now roam between the 5G networks of Swisscom and either SK Telecom or Elisa.
DT, Carphone Warehouse and Elisa show their 5G FOMO
The 5G hard launches are coming thick and fast, which is causing fear of missing out for some in the telecoms game.
Inward application of tech explains dumb pipe rhetoric
Every telco fears the ‘dump pipe’ label and the push towards commoditisation, but perhaps this trend is being compounded by an inward looking attitude in the application of potentially revolutionary technologies.
Elisa claims world’s first commercial 5G launch
Finnish operator Elisa says it has become the first operator in the world to begin commercial use of a 5G network and starts selling 5G subscriptions.
Elisa is proud of its efficient SON
Finnish operator Elisa is so happy with its self-organising network tech, developed with Red Hat, that it wants the whole world to know about it.
Nokia guesswork claims to remove guesswork from 5G planning
Nokia has set forward a bold statement, claiming to remove the guesswork from operator and enterprise 5G business planning by releasing a detailed collection of its own guesswork.
Elisa claims new 4G work record of 1.9 Gbps
Elisa has claimed it has set a new world record in August as it achieved a speed of 1.9 Gbps in the 4G test network.
Nokia claims 10 times faster upload with C-RAN for Ooredoo, Elisa
Finnish vendor Nokia Networks and Qatari telco Ooredoo claimed they have made uploading 10 times faster with the Nokia centralised RAN. Demonstrating at the ITU Telecom World event in Doha, Qatar, they said average uplink capacity across a cell was doubled thus extending smartphone battery life because of less interference.
Finns roll out 3G in 900MHz band
Finnish mobile operator Elisa said Thursday that it has launched what it claims to be the world’s first commercial WCDMA 3G network in the 900MHz spectrum. Local kit maker Nokia Siemens Networks supplied its WCDMA Frequency Refarming platform for the project, which has been in trial for over a year. Elisa claims to be the […]
Survey predicts bright future for mobile data
A recent survey commissioned by Finnish operator, Elisa, suggests that Finland can expect a healthy surge in mobile data usage in 2007. The survey of 2,400 Finnish subscribers of the country’s three operators – Elisa, TeliaSonera and Finnish 2G – showed that 82.4 per cent plan to use some form of data services in the […]
Elisa pilots N-Gage platform
Finnish mobileco Elisa has signed up to pilot Nokia’s latest incarnation of its N-Gage mobile gaming service. Elisa will combine its existing mobile gaming platform with the N-Gage gaming platform and will carry out intensive testing and evaluation in a live network environment. Nokia’s next generation N-Gage platform is intended to make it easier for […]
Finns test UMTS900
Nokia and Finnish mobile operator Elisa claimed Monday to have carried out the world’s first UMTS/WCDMA/HSDPA data call using equipment in the 900MHz band on a commercial network. Nokia said the call demonstrated the possibility of enhancing existing 3G networks with WCDMA/UMTS infrastructure in the 900MHz band. Because of its lower frequency, UMTS900 would be […]
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