Dish Network has chosen Nokia’s 5G core network. The agreement includes subscriber data management, device management, packet core, voice and data core, as well as integration services, Nokia says.
Nokia will also supply cloud-native products that will provide 4G, 5G standalone and Voice over Wi-Fi access to core network functions.
In principle, the 5G core network should help mobile service providers solve some long standing issues. Agility, the ability to rapidly define and deploy new products with possibly-new pricing models, is a strategic issue of some years standing. The usual way this capability is described is “innovating as fast as web scale companies.”
The virtualized 5G core network is directionally helpful, in that regard. The virtualized 5G core also is expected to reduce complexity--and therefore cost--of supplying apps over the network, as this Ericsson depiction suggests.
Also, many new products with revenue implications for service providers are complex, requiring lots of work with business partners elsewhere in the ecosystem, including device manufacturers, application providers or systems integrators. The 5G virtualized core is supposed to help, in that regard.
The ability to customize charging plans, service level agreements, support microservices and incorporate machine learning also are considered virtues.
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