T-Mobile taps Nokia to improve its 5G HSI service

Tuesday, 30 January 2024 10:11

Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia has collaborated with T-Mobile to supply the telco gateway solutions that support LTE, 5G NSA, and 5G SA for its fixed-wireless high-speed internet (HSI) traffic.

Nokia said it will deploy its multi-access gateway (MAG) solution, “which will allow T-Mobile to improve service scalability, and time to market.”

A Nokia spokesperson told tech publication Fierce Wireless that the Nokia MAG supports various deployment models, including software-only hardware-only, and a combined software/hardware approach.

A T-Mobile spokesperson also told the publication that the company is deploying a combination hardware and software option.

Nokia claimed the platform can scale the bandwidth for HSI traffic to multiple Tbps/s. Nokia added as T-Mobile expands its HSI service to more homes, it will benefit from higher bandwidth with lower space and power.

The Nokia MAG uses 7750 Service Routers (SR) to deliver broadband services over fixed-wireless access technologies. It combines the throughput and power savings of an NPU-assisted user-plane architecture on 7750 SR systems, while providing the flexibility of the 3GPP control-plane architecture.

“Our MAG solution, which uses our advanced FP5 IP routing silicon, will help T-Mobile to effectively enhance service capacity, scalability, and speed to market,” said Nokia president of network infrastructure Federico Guillén.

T-Mobile serves more than 4.2 million customers with its FWA HSI product. It aims to reach its target of seven million to eight million customers by 2025.

Last month, telco AT&T announced it will deploy Ericsson for its Open RAN initiatives.

Recently, Nokia and Ericsson made headlines last week when both announced their financial woes.

Both Nordic vendors are bracing weaker telco demand and face R&D risks. Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm revealed that the company slashed 9,000 jobs and its employee headcount recorded in financial earnings was down from 105,529 in December 2022 to 99,952, a year later, Light Reading reported.

Nokia, on the other hand, plans to cut between 9,000 and 14,000 jobs by 2026, slashing US$867 million and US$1.3 billion off annual costs.

This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 29 January 2024.

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T-Mobile taps Nokia to improve its 5G HSI service