COUNTRY FOCUS: NORDIC
In downtown Helsinki, 5G smartphone users
in the Maria 01, the leading Nordic start-up
campus, were celebrating blistering network
speeds of 2 Gbps on Telia’s live network
using test frequencies in the mmWave
range. This is the highest speed measured
in Europe at the moment and reflects
Telia’s commitment to serve the needs of
the wider community.
The new node provides high quality, extreme
bandwidth and low latency communications,
perfect to fire up and drive innovation
and research. The experience is testament
to Nokia’s ability to deliver ultra-high
performance, which is a vital step to promote
the adoption of advanced 5G use cases of
the future.
Telia demonstrated these new 5G use
cases in Slush, the yearly start-up event
held in November in Helsinki, Finland.
This time visitors were able to try facial
payment over 5G and experience how
facial recognition could transform payment
services in the future.
Ari Kynäslahti, Head of MN Product
Management at Nokia, said: “We’re
immensely proud to be partnering with
Telia on this 5G journey, and delivering the
reality of high-performance and reliable
5G to end-users – particularly those Finnish
enterprises that are driving innovation
forward and will benefit from fast and
secure next-generation connectivity.”
Janne Koistinen, Director of Telia Finland’s
5G programme, said: “We’re excited to be
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RIGHT NOW,
THERE IS
TREMENDOUS
APPETITE FOR
OPERATORS
TO ENTER INTO
NEW AREAS AND
PROMOTE THE
TECHNOLOGY
OF FUTURE
ADVANCED 5G USE
CASES THROUGH
INNOVATIONS.
taking this next step in our 5G deployment
in partnership with Nokia, and delivering
exceptional speeds and performance rarely
seen before in Europe.
“We want to enable our customers to use a
rock-solid 5G network as the backbone of their
businesses, and Nokia has been proven under
demanding, high-density conditions as being
a partner that Telia and its customers can fully
rely on to deliver the full-potential of 5G.”
Finland’s journey to 5G innovation
is excelling and the country recently
hosted the world’s first open 5G
cybersecurity hackathon. Hackers from
all over the world gathered in Oulu,
Finland, to test their skills in the area
of 5G and cybersecurity. Oulu, located
near the Arctic Circle, is known as a
global 5G and 6G hotspot and is home
to the research and development of
top-tier cybersecurity.
The world’s first open 5G Cybersecurity
Hackathon gathered 70 cybersecurity
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