On the Record · Nokia
Nokia competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name Nokia as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who Nokia names
Nokia’s annual reports for 2023 to 2025 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names Nokia
Companies whose own annual reports name Nokia as a competitor.
Word for word“In the Subscriber Solutions category, our primary competitors include Calix, Ciena, Nokia, eero, RAD, and a growing number of Asian based ODM's selling direct to carriers.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“network equipment providers such as Ciena, Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia, (some of whom we also cooperate with in certain opportunities and projects and some of whom also have BSS/OSS offerings); and” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“We also compete with companies such as Cisco, Harmonic, Huawei, Nokia, Teleste, Technetix, Vecima and ZTE for network distribution and access equipment.” 10-K for 2018
Brocade Communications Systems
Word for word“Brocade also competes with other IP networking companies, such as A10 Networks, Inc., Arista Networks, Inc., Avaya Inc., Extreme Networks, Inc., F5 Networks, Inc. (“F5 Networks”), Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Juniper Networks, Inc., and Nokia Corporation.” 10-K for 2016
Word for word“Vendors with which we may compete include: ADTRAN Holdings, Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CommScope Holding Company, Inc.; eero/Ring (Amazon companies); Harmonic Inc.; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Nokia Corporation; Plume Design, Inc. and Ubiquiti Inc.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our competitors include Nokia, Huawei, Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and ZTE.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our competitors (in each case relative to only some of our products or services) include: Amazon Web Services LLC; Arista Networks, Inc.; Broadcom Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Datadog Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dynatrace Inc.; Fortinet, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nvidia Corporation; Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; RingCentral, Inc.; Zoom Video Communications, Inc.; and Zscaler, Inc.; among others.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our primary competitors are technology vendors, such as Cisco Systems, Inc., Arista Networks Inc, Nokia Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Ciena Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Extreme Networks, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Inc., Zscaler, Inc., Netskope, Inc., Ruckus Networks, and Ubiquiti and networking-as-a-service vendors such as Nile and Meter.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“In the long-haul market, our main competitors include DWDM systems suppliers such as Ciena and Nokia, as well as China-based suppliers Huawei and ZTE.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“In the Network Services business segment, our main competitors are large multinational information and data communications technology providers, including wireless communications technology companies, such as Fujitsu Limited, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Nokia Corporation and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.” 20-F for 2020
Word for word“Our principal competitors in the service provider market include Compal, Franklin, Huawei, Inseego, Nokia, Orbic, Sonim, TP-Link, and ZTE.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“These vendors include Anritsu, Cisco, Ericsson, EXFO, Huawei, IBM, Infovista, Niksun, Elisa Polystar, Radcom, Splunk (a Cisco Systems business), Nokia and Viavi.” 10-K for 2026
Read from Nokia’s annual reports (20-F for 2025, 20-F for 2024, 20-F for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-05. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.