Nokia is to start trialling its 5G network in the company's native Finland and plans to share its network-based APIs with partners and competitors.
Nokia's technical director Juha Maatta said the trial is likely to roll out in early 2015 because a formal decision on how to build the network is still under review.
The company will partner up with the University of Oulu and the city of Oulu along with the Finnish Technical Research Centre for the trials.
5G will see a huge increase in both speeds and capacity when it is rolled out commercially.
Data transfer speeds will be ten to 100 times faster than they are at the moment and more people will be able to use it with a capacity of 1,000 times what we're used to.
The standard will also be more efficient than 4G, saving 90 per cent more energy.
Nokia said any discoveries it makes along the way, or APIs it develops to make the technology work, will be shared with its partners and even competitors.
Maatta said: "It won't be just one product, but there would be an entire ecosystem around it. We also have to develop the user experience. In this way people will see that they will have limitless capacity at their disposal."
Nokia isn't the first company to throw its weight behind 5G technologies. Huawei has announced it is pumping 400 million into developing 5G technologies and even a UK network, while Samsung and Telefonica are also experimenting with the superfast data technology on UK soil.
David Cameron is also behind the UK developing its own data speeds. He announced a project between the University of Dresden, King's College University in London and the University of Surrey earlier in the year to investigate 5G's capabilities.
-
Enterprises face delicate balancing act with data center sustainability goalsNews High energy consumption, raw material requirements, and physical space constraints are holding back data center sustainability efforts, according to new research from Seagate.
-
Cleo attack victim list grows as Hertz confirms customer data stolenNews Hertz has confirmed it suffered a data breach as a result of the Cleo zero-day vulnerability in late 2024, with the car rental giant warning that customer data was stolen.
-
Nokia hails success of Europe’s first commercial 5G cloud RAN deploymentNews Elise says its 5G cloud network puts it in a strong position during a move towards 6G
-
Kyndryl and Nokia extend partnership to drive data center networking gainsNews The companies plan to offer more data center networking options aimed at enterprise customers
-
Dell and Nokia expand strategic partnership to drive network cloud transformationNews The companies will leverage each other’s expertise and distribution to scale telecom networks and private 5G use cases
-
Nokia and Google score breakthrough in Android 13 network slicingNews Nokia's solution will allow devices to connect to multiple network slices simultaneously, provided by existing 4G and 5G operators
-
Nokia wins Indosat contract to expand 5G across IndonesiaNews The deal will bring next-gen communication technology to customers across a 1.4 million square kilometre area
-
Nokia and Ligado partner on 4G, 5G enterprise private networkNews Nokia will leverage Ligado’s Band 24 spectrum to reach the US enterprise market
-
The IT Pro Products of the Year 2021: The year’s best hardware and softwareBest Our pick of the best products from the past 12 months
-
Nokia T20 review: A simple, sturdy Android tablet at an SMB-friendly priceReviews It’s not as luxurious as an iPad, but the T20 makes a fine, functional tablet for business
