Nokia and AT&T have announced an extension of their existing partnership to enhance AT&T’s voice network capabilities. This multi-year agreement aims to integrate Voice over New Radio (VoNR) technology and transition its Nokia IMS Voice Core to a cloud infrastructure. These enhancements are expected to accelerate service rollouts, drive automation, and reduce operational costs.
AT&T will leverage Nokia’s Cloud Platform to streamline network operations, therefore lessening the dependency on manual processes. Additionally, Nokia’s Digital Operations software is set to facilitate the automation of service design and delivery across AT&T’s network. This marks a strategic step for AT&T as it continues to evolve its network infrastructure.
Yigal Elbaz, Senior Vice President of Technology & Network Services at AT&T, stated, “With focused execution and investment, AT&T continues to make excellent progress in realizing automation at all levels of its network and service operations. We are pleased to continue our relationship with Nokia to further optimise our network operations and enable new services that better support our customers’ evolving needs.”
From Nokia’s perspective, this continued collaboration with AT&T highlights the mutual benefits of long-term partnerships. Raghav Sahgal, President of Cloud and Network Services at Nokia, emphasized, “As a long-time collaborator with AT&T, Nokia fully understands the important journey AT&T is on to enhance automation, reduce complexity, decrease deployment times, and perform operational workflows faster to better serve its customers, and glean more value from its network.”
