Nokia inks Radio Access Network collaboration deals with Microsoft, AWS, Google

Nokia has been busily making deals with the cloud giants to connect their computing platforms to its Radio Access Network (RAN) via the magic of 5G. As well as its former beau Microsoft (don't mention the phone thing), Nokia has also been chatting with Google and AWS with a view to integrating Nokia's Cloud RAN and 5G support …

[Steve Davies 3]

And in other news...

Nokia is cutting another 10,000 jobs.

https://slashdot.org/story/21/03/16/205205/nokia-to-cut-up-to-10000-jobs-over-next-two-years

How many prog rock fans will be left then? not many I guess.

[Pascal Monett]

"the forever almost-here allure of 5G"

Compared to the forever peak petrol or fusion tomorrow, 5G looks very likely to be here quite soon.