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How to monetize 5G successfully?

With $103 billion spent on 5G networks in 2022 and another $129 billion projected for 2023, the pressure is on communications service providers (CSPs) to see returns on these investments. Traditional revenue growth in both consumer and enterprise markets is limited, making the development of new revenue streams essential. By exposing advanced 5G capabilities through standardized APIs, operators can create new business models, offering differentiated services based on factors like quality of service or network resources consumed, leading to performance-based monetization

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What are the benefits of network APIs?

Service providers have multiple opportunities to monetize network APIs through various business models. They can engage directly with CPaaS providers, aggregators, application service providers, and customers. Revenue generation can occur via wholesale or retail channels, using revenue share, subscription, or usage-based pricing strategies.

The CPaaS market has led the way by providing access to capabilities like messaging, voice, and video through programmable network APIs, enabling integration into digital applications (e.g., Uber’s in-app calling). The next step is to go beyond CPaaS and expose a wider range of network capabilities through APIs, such as real-time immersive video, edge processing for autonomous vehicles, and robot control. These APIs enable applications to dynamically interact with and adapt to networks in real-time, creating new monetization opportunities.

For communications service providers (CSPs), network APIs offer a better return on investment for 5G infrastructure by charging developers for access and fostering closer relationships with applications leveraging these capabilities, unlocking monetizable value from their networks.

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What is Nokia’s Network as code?

Our innovative Network as Code platform is designed as a trusted two-sided ecosystem paradigm. This platform aims to simplify network complexities by abstracting them and exposing developer-friendly interfaces. These interfaces enable developers to deploy applications seamlessly across multiple public and private networks.

One of the platform's key features lies in its software development kits (SDKs), which eliminate the need for app providers to understand the service provider's intricate network workings or specifics. By abstracting these complexities, Nokia's Network as Code platform empowers developers to focus solely on creating applications without delving into the underlying network intricacies.

Through this approach, Our Network as Code platform fosters a seamless integration between applications and networks, facilitating a streamlined deployment process across diverse network environments. This paradigm shift promises to revolutionize how applications interact with networks, paving the way for innovative solutions and accelerated digital transformation.

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What do the experts say about Network as Code?

“We’re thrilled to partner with Nokia, empowering developers to access advanced APIs and build transformative applications across consumer, enterprise, and industrial sectors.”
Mindaugas Rauba
Head of Communication and CTIO, Bite
“By working with Nokia in the growing ecosystem of network APIs, Mobifone can create a strong programmable network foundation for building new use cases to create advanced products, services, and solutions to meet the growing needs of customers in the digital age.”
Mr. Vinh Tuan Bao
Deputy General Director at MobiFone
“We are very pleased to open another area of collaboration with Nokia that enables compelling business use cases to consume our network assets in ways that were not really feasible years ago. Today, the level of collaboration among operators, system integrators, developers, and partners, is a step change and this is positioning us to better tap the cloud-native capabilities built into Orange’s 5G network.”
Laurent Leboucher
Group CTO, Orange
“5G-era networks are rich in features that can deliver fundamentally new capabilities to end-users, such as improving network quality on demand. We are excited to take this step with Nokia to collaborate and enable developers with the network capabilities they need to create new applications for their customers.”
Elif Yenihan Kaya
Network Capabilities Director, Turkcell
“At Telecom Argentina, we are evolving into a technology company, integrating new 100 percent digital ventures with connectivity as their cornerstone. Since last year, as GSMA’s Open Gateway Champions in Argentina, we have been actively participating and reaffirming our calling to foster innovation and facilitate the development of applications and services that drive the advancement of the digital economy.”
Roberto Nobile
CEO at Telecom Argentina
“This multi-faceted trial simultaneously leverages the power of 5G standalone, cloud, edge computing and AI-driven computer vision applications. 5G-era networks are rich in capabilities that can now drive improvements to customer experiences for both enterprises and consumers in ways that were simply not possible just a few years ago. The framework we have developed in partnership with Nokia will give us the opportunity to access a large untapped market here, plus realize the development of even more use cases in many other sectors beyond shipping.”
Madalina Suceveanu
Managing Director Mobile & Cloud Technologies, LG
“5G-era networks are fundamentally software-based and rich in capabilities – such as improving network quality on demand – that can really make a difference to enterprises and consumers in ways that were not possible years ago. We are excited to work with Nokia and its new platform to help us better tap into those capabilities that we have been aggressively building into our 5G network.”
Cayetano Carbajo Martín
Core & Transport Director, Global CTIO, Telefonica
“This partnership is putting the telco industry one step closer to realizing Industry 4.0. Developers and CSPs can leverage the combination of Nokia's Network as Code platform with the DISH 5G Open RAN cloud-based network to create and monetize solutions for new use cases across both consumer and enterprise markets, opening the door for further enterprise innovation.”
Marc Rouanne
EVP, Global Partnerships at DISH Wireless

Why developers are choosing Network as Code?

Our network as code platform provides a simplified developer experience without the burden of navigating the complex underlying network technologies. A platform that provides developers with an easy journey to learn about the capabilities being exposed to them via programmable interfaces and provides them with tools like code artifacts and testing sandboxes so that they can onboard capabilities onto their applications quickly.

 

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Nokia Network as Code supports GSMA OGI hackathon at MWC24

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