Nokia kicks off MWC with commercial 5G edge slicing trials

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has hit the ground running at this year’s Mobile World Congress, announcing commercial 5G edge slicing trials with Cellcom and Telia.
The trial with Israeli telco Cellcom focuses on network slices tailored for business applications and customer experience, as well as enterprise interconnectivity over a high-speed metro network. Telia meanwhile has partnered with mining kit maker Sandvik to assess how different 5G edge slicing functions operate with different equipm