T-Mobile, Nokia Reach $3.5 Billion Agreement To Build Nationwide 5G Network (phonedog.com)

T-Mobile has entered into a $3.5 billion multi-year agreement with Nokia to build out its 5G network. Nokia will supply T-Mobile with its end-to-end 5G technology, software, and services, including commercial AirScale radio platforms and cloud-native core, AirFrame hardware, CloudBand software, SON, and 5G Acceleration Services," reports PhoneDog. From the report: Nokia will help T-Mobile build a nationwide 5G network that'll use both 600MHz and 28GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum that'll be compliant with 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standards. T-Mobile has said that it'll deploy its 5G coverage in 30 cities in 2018, including New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. The carrier's first 5G-capable smartphones are expected to arrive in early 2019. The T-Mobile announcement can be viewed here.

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[The Cynical Critic]

Nokia bought Televa, founded at the end of WW, major innovator in the area of telephone systems and the originator of their network business, in 1981 and only started selling mobile phones, trough a company called Mobira they had founded together with Salora, in 1985. In other words Nokia had been making networks for years before they sold their first cellphone.

I get where you're coming from, networks are kind of business-to-business products consumers never really come into contact with, but networks have been a big part of their business for longer than their mobile phones.