5G infrastructure company Nokia announced on Monday that it would be expanding its strategic partnership with German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom to improve technology with AI integrations, as per an official press release.
The update signals a fresh lease of development for the company as part of a new strategy unveiled last year during its presentation on Capital Markets Day 2025, to draw on new growth opportunities from AI and position itself as a technology leader in the mobile networks segment.
At the time of writing, Nokia shares were trading at 6.35 euros, down by 2.07%. Deutsche Telekom shares were trading at 33.89 euros, down by 0.59%.
While keeping pace with the AI revolution, Nokia is also looking to make its network technology more efficient. On Sunday, the Finnish company rolled out a new set of “Doksuri radios”, which ir said were 30% more power-efficient and 25% lighter.
The official statement says that Nokia will be working with Deutsche Telekom to jointly work on its cloud-based and AI-native RAN technology (Radio Access Network).
Radio Access Networks are the critical infrastructure that help to connect smartphones to the network for coverage, phone calls, and data services, with the latest mass-scale iteration of RAN being 5G networks—a tech segment that Nokia developed expertise in after exiting the phone and smartphone business 2014, when it sold its mobile phone division to Microsoft for $7.2 billion.
Nokia now specializes in 5G patents, 6G patents, and telecommunications infrastructure.
“AI‑native RAN represents a fundamental shift in how networks will be built and operated,” said CTO Pallavi Mahajan
“Our expanded collaboration with Deutsche Telekom allows us to jointly accelerate this transformation, combining our technology leadership with their vision for truly open, software-driven mobile networks,” she also said.