Nokia and Elisa have announced an alliance for industrial-grade private mobile network deployment in the Finnish business marketplace. They will collaborate closely on 5G private mobile offerings and market development to enable organisations in Finland to adopt Industry 4.0 products.
Under the agreement, Nokia and Elisa will use new and existing radio network infrastructure to deploy mission-critical, industrial-grade private networks. The collaboration follows a recent agreement for Nokia to continue its relationship with Elisa as supplier of 5G RAN nationwide.
Nokia and Elisa will also align their resources to drive marketplace campaigns, share competency development and advance technical co-operation. The collaboration will initially focus on markets such as maritime and ports, mining, manufacturing, logistics and utilities. Private mobile networks enable these industries to deploy IoT, machine learning and AI for automation, safety and productivity gains.
Elisa already has experience deploying private 5G and LTE network solutions in several Finnish industrial sites, ports, mining and hospitals. Nokia has more than 260 large enterprise customers in many industries worldwide, of which over 30 incorporate 5G.
