Nokia has signed a four-year contract extension with Orange France to enhance its 5G radio infrastructure with Nokia’s energy-efficient AirScale portfolio. This agreement aims to improve customer experience by providing enhanced speeds, capacity, and performance across Orange’s services in Southeastern and Western France. Additionally, Orange will conduct trials of Nokia’s 5G Cloud RAN solutions as part of the transition towards advanced network technology.

The collaboration will utilize equipment from Nokia’s O-RAN-compliant 5G AirScale portfolio, which includes high-capacity AirScale baseband solutions, Massive MIMO Habrok radios, and multiband remote radio heads. These products leverage Nokia’s ReefShark System-on-Chip technology to ensure greater coverage and capacity. Furthermore, Nokia's MantaRay network management solution will support all radio and mobile core technologies.

Emmanuel Lugagne Delpon, CTO at Orange France, stated, “This new contract extension with Nokia and their industry-leading equipment portfolio will support our pioneering efforts to drive superior customer experience further, reduce our environmental footprint, and make our network as energy efficient as possible.” Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile Networks at Nokia, expressed excitement for continuing the partnership, emphasizing that their energy-efficient portfolio will enhance network performance and customer connectivity.

This deal reinforces the commitment of both companies to innovation and sustainability in telecommunications, marking a significant step in enhancing network capabilities while focusing on energy efficiency.