Nokia Expands Microsoft Partnership Amid AI-RAN Push

Nokia Corporation has strengthened its partnership with Microsoft in AI-focused areas and conducted broader trials of AI-RAN technology with global telecom operators.

This expansion highlights Nokia's progress in concrete product, customer, and alliance development across core network automation and radio access technologies.

The company is pushing into agent-based network automation and AI-RAN, which can influence recurring software and services demand, as well as switching costs over time.

Investors who own Nokia Oyj need to believe that its heavy push into AI-driven automation can gradually improve a low net margin base and support steadier earnings in the highly competitive mobile infrastructure market.