“Nokia is making autonomous networks a strategic-level initiative, moving from being a company with multiple automation products to becoming a company with a single autonomy strategy.”

This Appledore Research Note unpacks Nokia’s pre-DTW 2026 analyst day in Copenhagen, the company’s first since Cloud and Network Services was folded into Mobile Networks. That reorganisation matters: autonomy, AI and digital operations assets that once sat inside a single business unit now have to serve RAN, Core and Transport alike.

We assess Nokia’s move from a portfolio of separate automation products to a single company-wide autonomy strategy, and the decision-centric framework its new CTO for AI and Autonomous Networks used to frame it.

Along the way we cover the RAN, Core and Network Infrastructure deep dives, the AI agent library, the recurring role of digital twins, and a highly insightful customer session.

Written for CSP strategy and network operations teams, and for anyone benchmarking vendor autonomy claims, this note offers a grounded read on whether Nokia’s new vision holds together across its full network footprint.