OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s Telenor stated on Thursday it had partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to velocity up the modernisation of its telecoms techniques, boosting using cloud expertise to offer 5G and low-latency information services to skilled prospects.
In collaboration with the U.S. tech large, Telenor will develop product choices for chosen industries, together with manufacturing, logistics and automotive, the Norwegian agency’s chief govt informed Reuters.
“We are getting ready ourselves for the following progress wave,” Sigve Brekke stated in a phone interview, calling the transformation a “main shift” for Telenor.
A key promoting level for purchasers starting from manufacturing to hospitals is the low latency that ‘edge’ expertise, enabled by cloud computing, brings to 5G services, Brekke stated.
The Oslo-based group, which serves 172 million prospects with roughly half its income generated in Asia and half within the Nordic area, final yr introduced a separate partnership with Alphabet Inc’s Google Cloud.
“In this part, no person is sufficiently big by itself and no person has all of it,” Brekke stated, including that Amazon was robust on community parts, whereas the Google Cloud collaboration was extra targeted on merchandise and analytics.
Telenor and AWS have collectively already supplied shoppers with options resembling a prototype non-public 5G community for the Norwegian protection forces’ materials company, and personal networks for company prospects.
They additionally plan add-on services within the 4G space, Brekke stated.
Telenor’s Swedish digital cellular community operator Vimla, which makes use of many AWS services, is an instance of how to “disrupt the present enterprise mannequin with new sort of expertise,” Brekke stated.
“In the longer term we are going to focus extra on the enterprise prospects than we’re at present doing,” Brekke stated, including that whereas the corporate’s place within the enterprise section was robust in Norway, that’s not the case for the Nordics or Asia.
(Editing by Toby Chopra)
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