In February 2020, Nokia announced that it was undergoing live trials for 4G and 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) network slicing use cases in partnership with Austrian operator A1 Telekom and Swedish-Finnish operator Telia. Nokia has said that network slicing for 4G and 5G NSA will be rolled out by mid-year, with Huawei following the same pattern, having deployed their Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) for Sany last year, utilizing network slicing for its industrial applications.