Four cities will get the service to kick things off

Will be deployed via Mavenir’s cloud automation for telco framework

Nokia's R&D arm Bell Labs will design the telco's planned 5G SA network

The operator worked with Ericsson and Red Hat

It can work on any cloud too

Claims to be world-first intercontinental 5G Standalone roaming connection

Begins the transition towards "real 5G"

Mavenir's Converged Packet Core is powering the telco's Standalone 5G network in Germany

Both claim the launch to be the world’s first commercial 5G SA network with network slicing for Fixed Wireless Access

The NZ telco worked with Mavenir, AWS, Nokia, and Oppo to test two proof-of-concepts for Standalone 5G