Nokia has won a deal from Rock Connect to deploy a 4G-LTE Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network in Jamaica.
The broadband project aims to cover 95 percent of the Jamaica population by 2025. Nokia was selected as the sole vendor in the deal, and will provide its complete solutions portfolio, delivering a customized, digital and 5G-ready network.

The FWA network will allow Rock Connect to offer a competitive alternative to fixed networks in terms of speed and capacity, and with faster setup times, Osvaldo Di Campli, Head of Latin America at Nokia, said.

Nokia will provide its latest AirScale product portfolio based on the latest ReefShark System-on-Chip (SoC) chipset. Nokia’s AirScale RAN portfolio is designed for seamless, simple, and efficient ‘plug-in’ deployment and reduced power consumption. Nokia will  provide carrier aggregation with its Wavence portfolio, supporting future 5G backhaul use cases across different frequency bands.

Rock Connect will also deploy Nokia Digital Operations software to cut operational costs through automating the design and deploy process to accelerate time to market and implementation of new services.

Bruce Bowen, Chairman at Rock Connect, said: “Rock Connect continues to lay the foundation of a reliable and advanced network, with the ability to rapidly deploy new services. We are focused on excelling at customer service.”

Nokia will enable configuration, charging, policy, rating, service orchestration and management of services in partnership with Qvantel.

Niilo Neuvo, CTO at Qvantel, said: “Our pre-integrated joint solution provides a powerful digital business platform that really brings a new approach to monetization and BSS.”