Telia Company Launches 5G SA Core Network in Finland
November 10, 2021 at 02:00 am EST
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Telia Company announced that the company is launching its 5G SA core network in Finland, the commercially available 5G SA network in the Nordic and Baltic region. With the new 5G SA core architecture, applications in the network are provided with required capacity and latency needs, allowing for the creation of private networks, implementation of applications for remote control and further industry automation for enterprise and public sector customers. The new network architecture also sets the foundation for new innovative consumer applications requiring the functionality provided by 5G SA. Telia will also utilize the 5G SA core network to offer its residential customers in Finland broadband connections with guaranteed speeds. The 5G SA core network operates as a fully independent network, providing for higher capacity, increased security, lower latency and network slicing functionality, whereas current 5G networks share signaling and application data transfer priorities with existing 4G networks. The 5G SA core network expands the opportunities made possible with 5G and is built to connect with a large number of devices and provides the network functionality required for each application with the introduction of network slicing.
Telia Company AB is the leading Scandinavian telecommunications operator. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by activity as follows:
- telecommunications services (85.8%): mobile telephony (19.8 million subscribers at year-end 2022), fixed-line telephony (0.9 million), cable television transmission (3 million), broadband Internet access (2.9 million), etc.;
- media services (9.6%): production and broadcasting of audiovisual content (TV4, C More and MTV channels);
- other (4.6%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Sweden (46.4%), Finland (18.7%), Norway (16.5%), Denmark (5.8%), Lithuania (5.5%), Estonia (4%) and other (3.1%).