For anyone unfamiliar with broadband in the Nordics, first impressions may misconstrue Airties’ new customer win as a Nordic-based internet service provider, when NetNordic is in fact a systems integrator that is now reselling the Turkish firm’s Smart WiFi portfolio to broadband operators across the region. The deal opens up a potentially lucrative new channel into the Nordic market for Airties, while implying that the vendor has struggled to gain a foothold in the Nordics to date without a helping hand. It also suggests that local competition in the WiFi software space isn’t up to the exceptionally high standard set by Airties. Naturally, pandemic trends are cited as the central driver behind this deal, as Airties and NetNordic acknowledge the…