Telenor announced its agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand its 5G core and deliver new 5G and edge services to professional customers worldwide.
Telenor and AWS will invest in joint go-to-market activities in select industries — such as manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, and automotive — to enable 5G and edge services for customers. Telenor will scale its cloud footprint, while innovating to develop new services.

Telenor has already implemented an entire mobile core, running in the AWS cloud, for Vimla — Telenor’s virtual mobile network operator brand in Sweden. Vimla’s mobile core is scalable, programmable, and employs self-service APIs, enabling Vimla to create innovative services for its customers.

Vimla uses a range of AWS services, including Amazon ElastiCache, AWS Lambda, AWS Transit Gateway, and others to help scale elastically and provide a better service to more customers. The new cloud-based mobile core at Vimla is developed and managed as-a-service by Working Group Two, a company incubated by Telenor.

As a result of driving network transformation on AWS, Telenor plans to expand the work at Vimla to other areas in the company’s worldwide network.

Telenor and AWS will innovate in the areas of 5G edge for mobile private networks (MPNs) and edge computing.

For example, Telenor 5G enabled a “network on wheels (NOW)” prototype powered by AWS. The NOW gives customers the ability to set up an autonomous private 5G network wherever it is needed. The NOW prototype is currently being used by the Norwegian defense material agency and the Norwegian Public Service broadcaster Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK) for critical communication and remote production use cases, respectively.

Internationally, Telenor’s Thailand brand dtac, launched a 5G private network proof-of-concept for Thai enterprises based on edge computing and the AWS Snow Family. This solution helps customers process real-time, artificial intelligence (AI)-based video analytics and other applications in remote locations, even in areas with intermittent connectivity.

“Working with AWS, we are continuing to advance and modernise the telecommunications industry—digitalising and expanding our offerings beyond connectivity,” says Sigve Brekke, President and CEO of Telenor Group.

“Telenor is pushing the boundaries of innovation by running their Vimla core on AWS. Cloud technology is allowing Telenor to scale their network in a way that was not possible before,” says Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS.