“This milestone highlights the quality and customer confidence in our 5G portfolio, and we expect this to continue this year with the addition of new offerings,” said Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile Networks at Nokia. “Our global end-to-end portfolio includes products and services for every part of a network, helping network operators enable key 5G capabilities such as network slicing, distributed cloud, and the Industrial Internet of Things. We are delighted that our technologies are helping shape the delivery and deployment of 5G technologies worldwide and the countless benefits they will bring to businesses and consumers alike.”.

The 63 commercial contracts signed exclude any other types of 5G agreements, such as network pay trials, pilots, or demonstrations. If such agreements were included, the total number of 5G deals would exceed 100. Nokia is also a preferred supplier for nearly all major early-adoption 5G markets. This includes AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US, and Verizon in the United States; Korea Telecom, LG Uplus, and SK Telecom in South Korea; NTT DOCOMO, KDDI, and SoftBank in Japan; Vodafone in Italy; O2 in the United Kingdom; Optus and Vodafone Hutchison in Australia; Elisa and Telia in Finland; du in the UAE; and STC and Zain in Saudi Arabia.