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Inside Nokia’s Strategy: CSTO Nishant Batra on Telecom’s Future, Brand Reinvention, and Betting on Bell Labs
May 22, 2025·48 min·4 clips
The iPhone brought down the walled garden, making carriers a means versus an end.
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Bell Labs, AI RAN, and Nokia's reinvention story, framed as telecom architecture rather than slogan.
This episode treats Nokia's strategy as reinvention, and Bell Labs gives that claim concrete weight. Nishant Batra links the lab's legacy to the transistor, wireless networks, Unix, and topological quantum computing, then widens the frame to telecom's shift from 2G, 3G, 4G, and…
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Nokia reinvention, Bell Labs, and a practical edge-computing use case.
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