Nokia and Chunghwa Telecom accelerate 5G expansion in Taiwan
20 Aprile 2021 - 10:00AM
Press Release
Nokia and Chunghwa Telecom accelerate 5G expansion in
Taiwan
- Expansion will bring 5G services to both citizens and
businesses across the southern and central areas of Taiwan
- Nokia will leverage products from its AirScale portfolio to
deliver the high capacity and low latency needed for Chunghwa to
support 5G applications
20 April 2021
Espoo, Finland – Nokia has today announced that it has
been chosen by Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) to expand the operator’s 5G
network in Taiwan. The deal aims to support CHT’s objective of
achieving 80 percent population coverage as well as boost 5G
subscriptions to over 20 percent of its current subscriber base.
The expansion will leverage products from Nokia’s AirScale
portfolio to deliver enhanced connectivity for people and
businesses in the southern and central areas of the
country.
The expansion, which supports Chunghwa Telecom’s primary
business objective to accelerate 5G rollout this year, focuses on
high traffic areas, as well as locations with high business demand,
including metropolitan cities, universities, subways, high-speed
rail stations, industrial parks, and exhibition halls, and over 120
highly populated tourist hotspots. CHT is also looking to further
expand its enterprise footprint by enhancing its 4G/5G coverage as
well as deploying private network solutions.
The network will also be designed specifically to leverage
Nokia’s competitive 5G radio solutions to support enterprise use
cases. CHT will strengthen its cooperation with leading local
manufacturers for industrial 4.0 applications using solutions in
3.5GHz and 28GHz spectrum to meet the high throughput
requirements.
The deal includes the deployment of products from Nokia’s
AirScale portfolio, including AirScale base stations and AirScale
radio access products. These will include industry-leading Massive
MIMO radios, enabling CHT to boost the capacity of the existing
spectrum and increase throughput. Nokia’s AirScale products offer
huge capacity scaling and market-leading latency and connectivity,
as well as supporting current and future technology trends,
including network slicing and Cloud RAN.
In addition, Nokia will continue its long-term vendor
partnership with Chunghwa Telecom with ongoing support for 5G
coverage enhancement, enterprise entry and enhancement, network
optimization and Cloud RAN transformation.
Dr. Alex C.C. Chien, President of Mobile Business Group,
Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. said: “Supporting our
enterprise and individual customers through advanced 5G services is
an important focus for Chunghwa Telecom. We are committed to
retaining our position as the number one mobile operator in Taiwan
by delivering new and innovative services for our customers. Nokia
continues to be a trustworthy and hard-working partner for Chunghwa
Telecom throughout our journey.”
Mark Atkinson, SVP, Radio Access Networks PLM at
Nokia at Nokia, said: “The
Taiwan mobile market is highly competitive, driven by an
expectation for innovative and high-quality services demanded by
subscribers. Next-generation networks are enabling the types of
immersive and productivity-driven mobile services that Taiwanese
people expect, so we are excited to support Chunghwa Telecom by
expanding its 5G network.”
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