NBN taps Nokia for mmWave upgrade

Australia’s state-owned wholesaler NBN has picked Nokia to supply long-range mmWave equipment for its fixed-wireless access (FWA) upgrade.
As part of a $750 million programme launched back in March, NBN is extending FWA coverage to a further 120,000 premises, and upgrading the network to 5G to increase maximum wholesale connection speed to up 250 Mbps for as much as 85 percent of its FWA footprint.
Using mmWave spectrum promises a considerable improvement in capacity, but at the cost of si