India, Oct. 9 -- Nokia has had an exciting year in terms of being the preferred partner for most of the operators in India for 4G expansion and 4G advanced upgrades. Other than that, it also had a lot of engagements on enabling VoLTE for the incumbent operators after Jio started offering voice over the 4G networks.

Nokia deployed LTE for incumbents including Airtel and Idea. Besides, it was also selected by BSNL for VoLTE enablement. The solutions provider also won contracts in several circles for deployment of Massive MIMO using 4G Advanced carrier aggregation technology helping operators to achieve higher throughputs by combining the various bands used for communication.

The company also virtualised the networks of some of the telcos ...