Nokia, SoftBank Plan Joint Commercial AI-RAN Field Trial in Japan in 2027

MT Newswires · 3d ago
12:46 AM EDT, 10/20/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Nokia (NOKIA.HE) agreed to hold a joint commercial artificial intelligence-radio access network, or AI-RAN, field trial in Japan with Japanese investment holding company SoftBank Corp. The Finnish telecommunications equipment company said Tuesday that the trial planned for 2027 will assess AI-RAN on a live commercial network, supporting SoftBank's plan to commercialize the technology. The trial will involve the use of Nokia's anyRAN software on SoftBank's AI-RAN core platform, AITRAS, along with the aerial RAN computer of US technology giant Nvidia (NVD.F).