Nokia has denied reports that it is being pushed out of Verizon’s 5G network, which would make the US telco dependent just on Ericsson and Samsung, unless it decided to open up its supply chain to new entrants. Verizon also said that Nokia was still a supplier, and the report might have been just another quickly forgotten rumor, were it not for the atmosphere of uncertainty that surrounds the Finnish vendor at the current time. Having been forced to change its 5G chip architecture last year, and with reports of performance issues for some early customers, notably Sprint, Nokia now going through a change of CEO amid reports of takeover bids, while trying to regain lost momentum in 5G with…