BROWSING: Ericsson

Électricité de France (EDF) has appointed Thales and Ericsson to design and supply private industrial-grade LTE networks at all of its nuclear energy sites in France. The company has 56 nuclear power reactors in the country, and the stated schedule is to connect “two-to-four”...

This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone...

In general, FDD is considered better for coverage and TDD better for capacity Mobile operators are looking to carrier aggregation (CA), which allows them to use multiple sub-6 GHz spectrum channels simultaneously, as a method of increasing the bandwidth and speeds of their 5G networks....

UK-based vehicle battery manufacturer Hyperbat has claimed a “world-first” industrial virtual reality (VR) solution for manufacturing using a private 5G network. It is working with BT and Ericsson on the network setup. Qualcomm is providing its Snapdragon XR2 platform into the VR headset, plus...

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Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has given an initial thumbs-up to private factory-based 5G, after six months’ working with Swedish vendor Ericsson and local operator TDC NET on a test network at its production plant in Bjerringbro, north of Aarhus, in Denmark.  “We see 5G as...

New Zealand operator 2degrees has announced a partnership with Ericsson to launch a 5G network in the country, the telco said in a release. The company said that the initial 5G sites will be located in the cities of Auckland and Wellington with plans to...

Ericsson using 4G/5G private networks to enable the Miner 4.0; Smart Mining Value Calculator pins TCO to return on five mining use cases In its Connected Mining report, published in December 2020, and an accompanying deep dive webinar hosted earlier this year, Ericsson explored the...

Vodafone Germany launched its 5G standalone (SA) network in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and OPPO. Vodafone upgraded 1,000 sites to SA 5G, covering 170 cities and municipalities via 3.5 GHz spectrum. The new network was initially launched in some major cities including Frankfurt, Berlin,...

Epic, recently rebranded from Vodafone Malta, will use Ericsson equipment and support as it modernizes its existing network, setting the stage to bring 5G to Malta. Ericsson will provide the operator with its 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) products and solution, including Ericsson Spectrum Sharing and...

5G will require more advanced backhaul solutions Ericsson announced that its W-band (92 GHz -114 GHz) trials, conducted in partnership with Deutsche Telekom and Cosmote, proved the viability of the frequency bands for multi-gigabit wireless backhaul capacities for 5G and 6G. Currently, wireless backhaul uses frequency...

KDDI following a low-, mid- and high-band 5G strategy with plans to spend $4 billion by 2025 Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has announced it has brought its 700MHz services on air for Japanese carrier KDDI's commercial launch of 5G. The use of 700 MHz spectrum in...

Ericsson Open Lab carrier partners include KDDI, Ooredoo, Orange, SoftBank, and Turkcell In support of the broad industry move toward cloud-based radio access networks running on commodity hardware, Ericsson and a number of operator and other partners announced the launch of the Ericsson Open Lab...

Sweden-based Telia has launched a private LTE and 5G network solution for enterprises in Norway using its licensed spectrum, otherwise used for its public network services. It follows the launch of the same service in Sweden in September. Telia is offering to install a...

Inseego Corp. exec: 'The demand for 5G is staggering' Despite the setbacks presented by 2020, 5G adoption managed to not only beat the odds by accelerating during a particularly challenging year, but it is doing so faster than any previous mobile technology, as indicated by...

The World Economic Forum has added 15 new ‘smart’ manufacturing sites to its ‘global lighthouse network’, and claimed production output among Industry 4.0 leaders spiralled upwards by 93 percent in the past year, through the Covid-era. New joiners include factories owned by Bosch, Foxconn,...

Ericsson is opting out of Mobile World Congress Barcelona again this year due to coronavirus safety concerns, announcing its decision on the same day that the GSMA released an updated plan to control health risks to attendees. MWC 2021 Barcelona had previously been rescheduled...

Telia and Ericsson have launched what it claims to be the first 5G carrier aggregation trial in Norway, with the aim of supporting Telia’s nationwide 5G rollout, Ericsson said in a release. As part of Telia’s ambition to bring nationwide 5G coverage to Norway by...

Ericsson, China Broadcasting Network Corporation (CBN) and Unisoc say they have have successfully completed a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink speed test showing the enhanced network capability of the 700 MHz frequency band for 5G. The demo used Ericsson wireless equipment and downlink four-stream technology to...

Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecom (FET) has selected Ericsson as its vendor for 5G Standalone (SA) and Non-standalone (NSA) dual-mode 5G Core and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services, the latter said in a release. The deal builds on Ericsson’s existing 5G partnership with FET, including...

Nokia and Huawei joined Ericsson on Gartner's list of 5G leaders In its latest 5G "magic quadrant" assessment, Gartner labeled Ericsson as the standout network infrastructure and communications service provider, placing it ahead of China’s Huawei and Finland’s Nokia, the only other companies that the...

Shipping ports can make money back on key private 5G-based automation systems in less than two years, reckons Ericsson, and make valuable gains (178-percent returns) within five. The Swedish vendor has worked with Germany-based industrial IoT provider ifm electronic, along with commission management consultancy Arthur...

The du, Ericsson 5G RAN partnership will enable use cases like FWA and massive IoT United Arab Emirates’ du has selected Ericsson’s 5G radio access network (RAN) products and solutions as the operator carries out its plans to modernize its network. Once deployed, Ericsson’s AI-powered...

Germany operator Vodafone said it has activated 2,200 new 5G base stations at 800 locations across the country, the telco said in a release. The telco’s technicians have deployed this new infrastructure at nearly 300 towns and cities in Germany. The telco noted that with this...