Samsung is looking to buy Nokia’s network infrastructure

Samsung wants to buy Nokia’s network infrastructure to strengthen its radio access network.

Nokia has done its best to compete with big brands like Ericsson and Huawei over the past few years, but the Finnish company’s main strength is in its network infrastructure business. Samsung also has its own relatively small radio access network (RAN), whose market share was reported to be around 6.1% last year.

According to new rumors, Samsung is interested in buying Nokia’s infrastructure in order to strengthen its radio access network. The value of Nokia’s infrastructure is estimated at 10 billion dollars. If the deal goes through, Samsung will effectively become the second largest RAN supplier in the world with a market share of 25.6%.

Samsung is already a manufacturer of 4G and 5G base stations, chipsets, devices, radios and core equipment, so it is not a newbie in the infrastructure business. It should be noted that this company has been a provider of network infrastructure for operators such as Telus in Canada, O2 in Germany, Reliance Jio in India, KDDI and NTT DoCoMo in Japan, Dish and Verizon in the United States, and Vodafone in the United Kingdom.