Nokia’s latest Android slicing trial highlights dearth of 5G SA networks

Finnish kit vendor Nokia this week showed off how its network slicing solutions work seamlessly with Android 14.
If that opening sentence has a familiar ring to it, that’s because this is not the first time Nokia has used Google’s smartphone OS to showcase its network slicing capabilities. The last such occasion was in August 2022, when Nokia and rival kit maker Ericsson announced – separately – that they had successfully trialled networking slicing on Android 13.
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