Nokia shares rose as much as 6% to $10.715 in Thursday trading after the company expanded its Microsoft partnership to combine Nokia Data Suite with Microsoft Fabric. The integrated platform is designed to give telecom operators trusted network data in minutes instead of weeks, supporting autonomous VoNR assurance, geographic network-experience analysis, predictive maintenance and fault management across multi-vendor environments. The platform is commercially available and supports public cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises deployments. Nokia’s broader AI-RAN strategy includes trials with operators across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, with testing showing spectral-efficiency gains of more than 20%. Separately, Nokia is deploying ICE-X 800G ZR/ZR+ coherent pluggable optics with Telxius across Europe, the United States and Latin America. Nokia is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings on Oct. 22, with analysts expecting earnings per share of 8 cents and revenue of $5.81 billion.