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Driving the 5G engine with research and standardization
Powered by world-renowned research from Nokia Bell Labs, Nokia has been the forerunner in defining the fundamental technologies for the 5G era.
Nokia uses its leadership position to ensure that 5G technology remains indispensably valuable to people and organizations that use it every day. We are driving standardization efforts to meet consumer, enterprise and industrial requirements not addressed in previous cellular standards, and we are constantly anticipating future needs by innovating new applications enabled by 5G.
We have one of the industry’s broadest and strongest portfolios, with more than 6,000 families declared essential to 5G.
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Blog posts

16 Nov 2023
Zero-energy devices for a sustainable and interconnected future

9 Nov 2023
Harmonizing the use of intents across network and service management

24 Oct 2023
Scaling up AI/ML for cellular radio access

12 Oct 2023
The state of standardization in 2023

28 Aug 2023
Standards leadership in action: How Nokia transformed the way we view video

7 Aug 2023
Uplink matters! 5G-Advanced holds the answer

25 Jul 2023
Standards leadership in action: How Nokia is making roads safer

13 Jul 2023