O₂ Telefónica, Google Cloud, and Nokia Unite to Transform 5G Network Infrastructure
Munich, Germany 4th March 2025 – O2 Telefónica Germany has marked a strengthening of its collaboration with Google Cloud alongside Nokia to shift their core 5G network to the cloud domain, aiming at improving network flexibility, scalability and new service roll out for customers.
Using O2’s Nokia 5G core architecture, O2 Telefónica will host its standalone 5G core network on Google Cloud in order to provide ultra-low latency and important 5G applications such as extended reality and network slicing.
Mallik Rao, its Chief Technology and Information Officer of O2 Telefónica, said,
“We are building our network of the future.” He added, “With the new, cloud hosted 5G core, we are doing pioneering work in Europe and taking major steps in our transformation process.”
This marks an important landmark as O2 Telefónica becomes one of the first established telecommunications providers to deploy a cloud-based 5G core in a live mobile network, expanding customer experience with speedy network features and service roll out, reliability, and resource market.
Fabio Cerone, General Manager Telecom EMEA at Amazon Web Services, said, “With the implementation of the Nokia 5G Core network on AWS, O₂ Telefónica is automating its operating model and achieving scalability in two key areas: elasticity and automation.”
He also stated that this allows them to scale and allocate 5G network resources to the dynamic customer requirements with new applications being supported.
The cloud central core will also aid in automating other network functions, enabling the quick deployment of new software features as well as upgrades.
This is expected to increase the overall efficiency and resiliency of the network by making it more responsive to customers’ needs as well as other technological changes.
As Raghav Sahgal, President of Cloud and Network Services at Nokia, states,
“Deployment of this nature provides the greatest level of network agility and service provision enabling all the value that Jenkins and Telefónica Germany can derive from the assets on their networks.”
O2 Telefónica has kept demonstrating its intention to utilize new cloud technologies, which also preserves its ability to provide the latest services in a fast changing environment. It has researched IoT and cloud enabled next gen services delivery.
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