Pioneering sustainable innovation with AI and cloud
The beauty of the mobile industry is that it has the ambition and capabilities to constantly transform itself. We have evolved far beyond connectivity, and now we are picking up the pace for the next big transformation driven by AI and cloud.
At Nokia, we are investing significantly in R&D and future innovations to ensure that our customers have the best technological solutions and business models to evolve and monetize their networks.
At Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, we showcased a wide range of our latest products and solutions that are well aligned with our customers targets. We help them harness the efficiencies of AI and cloud, differentiate with 5G performance while preparing for Advanced 5G and 6G and build a sustainable path to net zero with optimized total cost of ownership (TCO).
Leading the industry in AI-RAN and cloud
Nokia has taken a leadership role in transforming the future of radio access networks with AI and to steer this development in the AI-RAN Alliance. We are working very closely with pioneering customers like T-Mobile US, SoftBank, KDDI, Jio and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and AI companies like NVIDIA to drive advancements in AI-RAN architecture and to validate use cases that leverage infrastructure synergies.
Our anyRAN approach is a solid foundation for seamless evolution to AI-RAN and next-generation cloud. At MWC, we showcased RAN and AI workloads running on the same infrastructure and scaling of Cloud RAN resources in a joint demo with SoftBank. As the demand for AI computing is rapidly accelerating, base station sites have the potential to become far edge cloud computing sites and operators can monetize their spare computing capacity for AI processing.
For our customers, it’s very important that our AirScale portfolio is AI-ready today. This paves the way for future opportunities in leveraging base station computing capabilities for AI workloads and unlocking new revenue streams.
Achieving next level efficiency with AI
Based on discussions with our customers, there’s really no doubt about the importance of AI for enhancing radio network efficiencies. At Nokia, we use AI extensively in our solutions and services to optimize performance and user experience, intelligently adapt the network to varying traffic conditions and predict and address issues with unprecedented efficiency.
Visitors at our MWC booth were truly impressed about our AI for RAN demos, especially the concrete results achieved at live customer networks with MantaRay Autopilot. In fact, we heard many operators say that they want to trial AutoPilot as soon as possible. For example, AutoPilot performed more than one million autonomous operations in 5 days without human intervention, enhancing cell utilization by 30% with no degradation in network performance. As you can see, AI has huge potential, and we are just beginning to see its impact in the optimization of radio networks.
Our visitors also loved the extended reality visualization for our AI-powered Digital Network Twin. Our true 3D visualization gives an immersive view of key network parameters, such as coverage, performance and quality of service. However, the real differentiator is that it can help our customers identify new monetization opportunities in the network.
Enabling future-proof evolution to Advanced 5G and 6G
There was a lot of interest at MWC around our Dual Boost base station technology for 5G Massive MIMO uplink and downlink processing, which is a stepping stone to Advanced 5G premium performance. Powered by the latest ReefShark System-on-Chips (SoC), it leverages our AirScale baseband and radio hardware and software. We have seen around 30% higher average uplink cell throughput using Dual Boost.
We had a great display of our latest AirScale radios that provide great options for future-proof network modernization across a variety of frequency bands, including the new dual-band Habrok 32TRX Massive MIMO radios, new triple-band Pandion remote radio heads and many more. We also showcased our enhanced interleaved passive-active antenna (IPAA+) platform, which saves space and reduces costs at deployment sites, integrating also our latest dual-band Habrok radios. Visitors also had the chance to see our recently launched high-capacity baseband solutions Tuuli 24 and Tuuli 26e and the all-in-one Kolibri small cell solutions, which provide the needed deployment flexibility to operators and enterprises.
While there’s still a lot of work to be done to expand the reach of 5G globally, pioneering operators are already looking ahead. It’s not a surprise that our Advanced 5G solutions gained lots of attention at MWC. We showed how Advanced 5G helps our customers provide outstanding end-user experience, unlock new revenue opportunities and achieve a sustainable radio access network TCO. For the evolution path to 6G, we demonstrated a Massive MIMO radio operating in the upper 6 GHz spectrum.
Accelerating private 5G and tactical solutions
One of our strategic focus areas is to capture opportunities in fast-growing segments such as defense. We provide secure, tactical solutions that meet the unique demands of mission-critical defense operations. During MWC, we announced a new collaboration initiative: We have successfully integrated our commercial 5G solutions with Lockheed Martin’s 5G.MIL Unified Network Solutions ecosystem, ensuring interoperability with Verizon’s network operations and management solutions.
With our private 5G solutions, we boost the efficiency and productivity of enterprises and help shape the digital transformation of key industries.
Building a sustainable path to net zero
At Nokia, we are committed to ambitious, science-based sustainability targets including reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across our value chain by 2040.
We have embedded energy efficiency across our full product and service portfolio, which helps our customers cut electricity costs, reduce carbon emissions and potential carbon compensation costs, and even unlock new revenues in energy markets.
Let me mention some sustainability demo highlights from MWC. Our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) solution helps mobile operators monetize backup batteries safely in the power reserve markets. We added new features and an aggregator interface, which further expand the revenue potential. We enable solar production at radio sites with our Outdoor Solar Inverter (APRA-S), which is part of our zero-footprint site solutions and supports the real-time VPP solution. Our MantaRay Energy and CO2 dashboard leverages AI for predictions and anomaly detection related to energy consumption. We have seen a 25% reduction in electricity costs and C02 at network level with help of the dashboard.
As we continue to drive the next big transformation in the mobile industry, our commitment to innovation and sustainability remains unwavering.
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