Nokia Concerned Net Neutrality Rules Could Affect Network Slicing

OTI is mentioned in a Communications Daily article about a February 8 meeting the CEO of Nokia held with Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to discuss the importance of network slicing, with the article noting how OTI recently advised the FCC that network slicing shouldn’t be used as an excuse to exempt certain applications or services from net neutrality rules.

Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark met with FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel about proposed net neutrality rules and their potential effect on network slicing. The proposed rules “create friction for innovation, specifically related to network slicing,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 23-320: “Nokia described the market for slicing, why it is essential at this point in the 5G cycle where returns on investment have lagged, and its critical importance to the business case for 6G.” Slicing will be important to “enabling enterprise cases and providing network solutions for many use cases for which a stand-alone purpose-built network is not feasible,” Nokia said. The Open Technology Institute at New America earlier complained that network slicing shouldn’t be used as an excuse to exempt from the rules any specialized application or service that a mobile carrier delivers (see 2401310046).