Deutsche Telekom AG chose Nokia Oyj to roll out more than 3,000 open network sites in northern Germany, the Finnish equipment provider said on Wednesday.

The telecoms company will supply Open Radio Access Network technology, which uses cloud-based software and allows operators to build telecom networks using equipment from different suppliers.

Nokia has signed a contract with Deutsche Telekom to roll out a mobile network using Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) in more than 3,000 sites in Germany, the Finnish telecom equipment maker said in a statement on Wednesday.

Nokia struck a deal with Deutsche Telekom to support the rollout of more than 3,000 open RAN-compliant sites in Northern Germany.

Finnish vendor Nokia has won a contract to deploy more than 3,000 sites for Deutsche Telekom's (DT) Open RAN network in Germany. In winning the contract, it marks a return to providing RAN equipment to Deutsche Telekom for Nokia, after DT chose to work with Ericsson for parts of its network in 2017.