133 bring in advanced services to market such as Smart-Wifi , Cloud Services and Virtualization . There is no end of plans with Huawei ,” he says .
Nokia and Orange embarked on a major 4G LTE regional roll-out in 2018 , which saw the former upgrade Orange ’ s radio access network to enhance mobile broadband services .
“ This was the first step of monetisation of the network ,” he says “ The radio is almost completed and the second step , with Huawei , will focus on virtualisation and cloud systems , and take another four to five years . On completion , we will have fully modernised our network .” He adds that financial services will be a key focus in future .
Technology ’ s changes have been profound and there is “ no comparison ” between 1999 and 2020 . “ Before the customer was following the operator , now it ’ s the other way round – the operator must follow the customer , and the vendor must follow the operator . Moving from legacy to virtual concept ,
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