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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 4,500 families declared essential to 5G.
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Blog posts

6 Jun 2023
Standards leadership in action: How Nokia convinced the 5G world that less is more

24 Apr 2023
Our world may be fragmented, but we can still act together through standards

20 Apr 2023
Nokia spearheading the standardization forums to unleash the full potential of connectivity

26 Jan 2023