A flurry of MWC25-related announcements from Nokia in recent days includes, not surprisingly, a focus on artificial intelligence, private networks and cloud utilisation, in the latter case through news of the first mobile operator in world to deploy Nokia cloud-native 5G Voice Core on Public Cloud to accelerate new 5G services.
Boost Mobile, the newest US nationwide carrier, has deployed Nokia’s fully cloud-native 5G Voice Core to enable even faster delivery of advanced services, enhanced network automation, and more efficient cloud utilisation than its Open RAN cloud-native network could before.
The deployment includes the consolidation of several IMS voice 3GPP functionalities into a single cloud-native network function (CNF), called Nokia Cloud Native Communication Suite (CNCS).
This migration from Boost Mobile’s previous distributed IMS voice core by Nokia provides automated deployment and configuration, reduced infrastructure and carbon footprint, and lower operational costs through streamlined life cycle management.
With private wireless solutions likely to be a strong focus on MWC25, another interesting announcement is that Carrix, one of the world’s leading independent marine terminal and rail yard operators, is partnering with Nokia to introduce Nokia DAC, a private wireless solution, to help enhance the company’s operations at several leading marine terminals in the US.
And of course AI is on the agenda too. At MWC2025, Nokia and its ecosystem of industry partners, KDDI, SoftBank Corp, T-Mobile US, and NVIDIA are outlining the advances made in the deployment and optimisation of revolutionary AI-powered radio access networks (RAN) as well as the future architecture for AI-RAN. These joint efforts, they say, will lay the foundations for developing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) business models for service providers, which helps them unlock new monetisation opportunities by offering scalable computing infrastructure and capabilities for processing AI and other services.
In addition, under its anyRAN approach, Nokia says it is evolving Cloud RAN solutions to include AI computing in the shared infrastructure to maximise resource efficiency for operators, while, to accelerate the innovation and development of AI-RAN, Nokia is also establishing an AI-RAN Centre at its offices in Dallas, US.
The centre will enable Nokia’s partners to develop and test AI-RAN solutions in real-world network conditions with a focus on creating innovative use cases and prototypes, and to validate AI-RAN reference architecture. Nokia is also working with its industry partners across a range of AI-RAN initiatives and will demonstrate its innovative AI-powered solutions at MWC25.
A range of demonstrations includes how networks can manage RAN and AI workloads on the same infrastructure as well as how AI is built into Nokia’s AirScale base stations to optimise RAN performance by intelligently adapting to varying radio conditions.
Nokia will also demonstrate MantaRay AutoPilot, an AI-powered solution for autonomous RAN operations and optimisation including the results of a live customer deployment. In addition it will showcase the breadth of its AI-based services portfolio, including the new extended reality visualisation for the AI-powered Digital Network Twin, and other extensive AI capabilities.
Visitors will also hear about new Agentic AI capabilities within Nokia’s autonomous networks portfolio that will help service providers better automate, secure, and monetise their networks. Extending the AI capabilities already embedded in Nokia’s autonomous networks portfolio, the latest Agentic AI enhancements enable CSPs to more easily detect security threats, accelerate new service creation, and improve the management of their networks.
