India, Oct. 21 -- Nokia trumpeted a new five-year agreement with Telia Company that will see the vendor deploy 5G radio access network (RAN) technology for the Swedish operator's Finnish unit as well as 5G standalone (SA) core technology in six markets in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

Significantly, the six markets include Sweden, which is the home market of Nokia rival Ericsson. The other five are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and Norway.

Telia noted that the agreement primarily focuses on Finland, where Nokia will modernize Telia's 4G network and upgrade it to 5G. The agreement covers 7,500 sites. The new Nokia SA 5G Core solution will then be deployed in all of Telia's markets, "providing customers with entirely new capabilit...