Nokia’s broadband gets boost from network pressure

Helsinki: Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia is seeing a pick up in orders as its broadband clients race to upgrade networks to meet higher user demand during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a company executive.

Many customers had planned to grow their network by 30% to 40% over the next few years assuming a similar growth in traffic, but Covid-19 brought in that traffic growth overnight, Sandy Motley, Nokia’s president of fixed networks, told Reuters.