AT&T Inc. ( T ) is extending its multi-year partnership with Nokia Corporation to enhance its voice core network.

This agreement will help AT&T ( T ) advance its goal of delivering secure, customer-centric networks with improved automation, enabling new services, faster deployments, and greater operational efficiency.

AT&T ( T ) is upgrading its existing Nokia IMS Voice Core to support Voice over New Radio (VoNR).

The enhanced IMS Voice Core features a fully cloud-native architecture, allowing for flexible scaling and increased automation.

AT&T ( T ) will leverage Nokia’s voice core applications via the Nokia Cloud Platform (NCP) to optimize network operations, enhance automation, and reduce manual processes.

NCP aligns with Nokia’s multi-cloud strategy, offering operators flexible infrastructure options.

Additionally, AT&T ( T ) will implement Nokia’s Digital Operations software, which supports multi-vendor networks, to automate the design, delivery, and assurance of customer services at scale.

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Raghav Sahgal, President of Cloud and Network Services at Nokia ( NOK ), added, “As a long-time collaborator with AT&T ( T ), Nokia ( NOK ) fully understands the important journey AT&T ( T ) is on to enhance automation, reduce complexity, decrease deployment times, and perform operational workflows faster to better serve its customers, and glean more value from its network.”

Last month, AT&T ( T ) reported fourth-quarter 2024 operating revenues of $32.30 billion, the analyst consensus estimate of $32.04 billion and adjusted EPS of $0.54 beat the estimate of $0.50.

Investors can gain exposure to AT&T ( T ) via iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF ( IYZ ) and WBI Power Factor High Dividend ETF ( WBIY ) .

Price Action: T shares are down 0.08% at $24.23 premarket at the last check Tuesday.

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