Nokia announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services that delivers the first agentic AI‑powered 5G‑Advanced network‑slicing solution in a live 5G network, unveiled at the 2026 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24 2026. The collaboration combines Nokia’s AirScale base stations, MantaRay Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) platform, and Agentic AI modules with AWS’s Bedrock AI foundation‑model service to create intent‑based, adaptive slices that automatically respond to real‑world conditions such as traffic surges, emergencies, and mass gatherings.
The solution ingests real‑time data—locations, events, traffic, incidents, and weather—through AWS Bedrock and uses agentic AI to adjust radio‑access‑network policies on the fly. By integrating the AI engine with Nokia’s cloud‑native stack, operators can provision and scale slices across existing infrastructure without deploying new hardware, enabling a fully intent‑driven network‑slicing experience that is both elastic and policy‑driven.
Nokia’s AI‑centric strategy positions the company to capture new revenue streams for telecom operators by turning network slicing from a technical capability into a business enabler. The partnership strengthens Nokia’s competitive stance against Ericsson and Huawei, offering a differentiated, cloud‑integrated slicing capability that can be rapidly provisioned and scaled worldwide. The technology also aligns with the broader industry shift toward AI‑native networks and intent‑based services, giving Nokia a first‑mover advantage in the emerging 5G‑Advanced market.
"This innovation marks a major milestone in the evolution of AI‑native networks. By combining Nokia’s advanced network‑slicing capabilities with agentic AI, we are enabling operators to deliver premium, intent‑based services that adapt dynamically to real‑world conditions," said Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia. "Nokia is advancing connectivity by unlocking new value streams for telecommunication providers and supporting next‑generation applications and differentiated services for enterprises, industries and consumers." "By integrating agentic AI capabilities through Amazon Bedrock with Nokia’s application, operators can now deliver intelligent, context‑aware network slicing that responds dynamically to real‑world conditions from traffic surges to emergency situations," added Amir Rao, Global Director of GTM & Telco Solutions at AWS. Saleem Alblooshi, Chief Technology Officer at du, noted that the pilot demonstrates the solution’s ability to deliver highly responsive, premium services to customers in both critical enterprise and consumer contexts.
The solution was demonstrated with du in the United Arab Emirates and Orange in France, validating its performance in live networks and providing early‑adopter operators with a blueprint for commercial rollout. The partnership signals that Nokia is ready to move beyond proof‑of‑concept and into a scalable, cloud‑native offering that can be deployed across operators’ existing infrastructure, potentially accelerating the adoption of 5G‑Advanced services worldwide.
Nokia’s launch of an agentic AI‑powered network‑slicing stack marks a strategic pivot toward AI‑driven networking and positions the company to monetize advanced network services. By combining Nokia’s hardware and orchestration expertise with AWS’s AI platform, the partnership delivers a differentiated, intent‑driven solution that could reshape how operators provision and monetize 5G‑Advanced services in the coming years.
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