News from Finland

This is an experimental news service that offers news from Finland in English. A venture from Malloc Enterprises, Inquiries by email: contact@malloc.fi.

Nokia and Qualcomm hit 8 Gbps throughput on a commercial 5G network

Nokia, Qualcomm and the Finnish teleoperator Elisa achive a new record speed on commercial 5G networks. The record breaking throughput goes to 8Gbps on a commercial mmWave spectrum network in downtown Helsinki. The test…

Artificial intelligence could reduce unnecessary stops in traffic lights in a single intersection by 30,000 annually

The city of Vantaa has been experimenting with applying computer vision and artificial intelligence to traffic lights. The results for the pilot have been published in mid June 2020. The aim of a pilot project was to…

Finland completes auction for 26 GHz millimeter wave 5G networks

Finland has invested heavily in the fifth generation 5G cellular networks. All of the nordic country's three operators have a working 5G mobile coverage. Currently all networks are using the medium band, sub 6 GHZ, but …

Finnish poker player wins close to $500k, bets it all on Tesla stock

Finnish financial daily reported that Finnish poker player Pauli Äyräs came fourth in the Super High Roller Bowl Online poker tournament and cashed in 487,500 US dollars. He pledged on Twitter that he is spending it all…

World's first liquid cooled 5G base station deployed in Finland

Finnish telecom operator Elisa has deployed the world's first commercial liquid cooled 5G base station. The technology has been developed by Nokia and allows using the waste energy of the mobile network device to heat a…

Sweden undertakes study to find if nicotine in snus protects against coronavirus and covid-19

The epidemiology and medicine center (Centrum för epidemiologi och samhällsmedicin, CES) in Stockholm has undertaken a study to see if snusprotects from a serious cocronavirus infection. Their hypothesis is that nicotin…