Freedom Telecom and Nokia team up on AI and cloud testbed

Freedom Telecom International, a subsidiary of Freedom Holding Corp., has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Nokia to work on cloud and AI infrastructure, starting with a joint Innovation Lab at Nokia’s Sunnyvale, California campus. The lab will focus on designing next-generation AI data center blueprints, testing AI architectures, cloud technologies and advanced networking, and running feasibility studies for deployments in Kazakhstan and neighboring markets. Freedom Lifestyle Group will use the facility to trial AI-driven consumer services across its e-commerce and health tech businesses, including chat and voice assistants, agentic AI systems, and a planned super app.

The partnership is framed as part of Kazakhstan’s push to become a regional hub for AI, digital talent and sovereign cloud, in a region that has seen limited hyperscale infrastructure investment to date. Freedom Holding, which already collaborates with NVIDIA and OpenAI, sees Nokia’s technology and global ecosystem as a way to scale digital infrastructure and services across Central Asia and other growth markets, while Nokia aims to showcase its role in advanced connectivity for cloud and AI projects.