BROWSING: Ericsson

  Hong Kong’s smallest mobile operator, SmarTone, announced the launch of commercial 5G services in the territory using Ericsson’s Dynamic Spectrum Technology (DSS). The carrier said it adopting an integrated approach of combining high, mid and low spectrum bands to build a "robust" 5G network in...

  Swedish telcos Telia and Tele2 have announced the launch of 5G commercial networks in the country. In a release, Telia Sweden said it inaugurated its first major commercial 5G network in Stockholm on May 25. The network, which has been up and running for a...

Nokia collaborated with other vendors in Rakuten Mobile's network build Earlier this month the Open RAN Policy Coalition launched with a number of open RAN vendors, naturally, and operator members, including AT&T, DISH, NTT, Telefonica, Verizon and Vodafone. None of the big three RAN vendors--Ericsson,...

Ericsson has 91 commercial 5G agreements and contracts China Telecom and China Unicom have chosen to deploy Ericsson Radio System products and solutions as part of their 5G rollouts, specifically making use the Swedish vendor’s dynamic spectrum sharing solution, Ericsson Spectrum Sharing. The Ericsson Radio...

Graduation greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman, NC, where we virtually celebrated the college graduation of our son (Jimmy).  We are proud of his accomplishments and share his excitement as he begins his software development career at Cerner Corporation (Kansas City) later this summer.  Finally, a Patterson...

  Ericsson announced that a 5G research network has gone live in Aachen, Germany, using its equipment and services. Spanning a square kilometer of the Melaten campus of RWTH Aachen University, the network connects the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT, the Laboratory for Machine Tools...

The 5G network in Norway makes use of Ericsson’s dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) software In the latest milestone in the partnership between Ericsson and Telia, the operator launched its 5G network yesterday in Norway, with initial deployments in Lillestrøm and parts of Groruddalen in the...

  Atlas Copco Airpower, a manufacturer of compressors, vacuum solutions, generators, pumps, power tools, and assembly systems is collaborating with Ericsson and Orange Belgium to ensure intelligent manufacturing with 4G and 5G technologies. The Atlas Copco Airpower factory in Wilrijk, Belgium, is one of the world’s largest manufacturing sites for both portable...

  Bell Canada has decided to put on hold the commercial launch of its 5G network due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company’s CEO Mirko Bibic said during a conference call with investors. “We are ready with our initial 5G network, but frankly we don't think...

Open RAN Policy Coalition launched this week with key operator members In examining the long arc of open radio access networks, the focus of groups like the O-RAN Alliance and Telecom Infra Project has been on developing open standards and interfaces, then proving that technology...

T-Mobile US exec: 'SA 5G will accelerate 5G adoption and services' T-Mobile US, assisted by Ericsson, has achieved a number of significant milestones for standalone architecture (SA) 5G. In order to achieve this string of firsts, the companies conducted tests in which SA and...

  Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom confirmed it plans to launch commercial 5G services in the third quarter of the year despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shui-Yi Kuo, the carrier’s President and CFO, said during a conference call with investors. “Although the pandemic continue to...

  Swiss state-controlled telecoms group Swisscom said that the rollout of its 5G network was experiencing some obstacles due to the government’s resistance to installing upgraded antennas. “In Switzerland, there is a big debate on 5G, a lot of fake news around 5G. And the government,...

Microsoft confirmed acquisition of Affirmed Networks in March Microsoft made big telco moves ahead of its earnings call last week with the acquisition of Affirmed Networks and announcement of Azure edge products for both carriers and enterprises. And, on the April 29 call with analysts,...

  Australian carrier Telstra has upgraded its 5G radio access network (RAN) coverage footprint across Australia, connecting a cloud-native 5G Core (5GC) network to handle new 5G standalone traffic. Telstra used equipment from Swedish vendor Ericsson for the network upgrade. The 5G upgrade means that Telstra already has...

HAPS Alliance includes Ericsson, Nokia, SoftBank, DT, Telefonica, China Telecom, Bharti Airtel and Loon, among others A coalition of companies are aiming for the stratosphere as a "multi-billion dollar market opportunity" in telecommunications, planetary observation and weather prediction and modeling—including five traditionally terrestrial cellular network...

By 2025, almost one quarter (23 percent) of all private LTE and 5G networks will be deployed by smart cities, either at local or national government level. Other major industrial sectors to negotiate their own spectrum and manage their own wireless networks will be,...

Dynamic Spectrum Sharing key to scaling 5G coverage If 2019 was the year of initial 5G rollouts and 2020 is the year of driving 5G to scale, then expect Dynamic Spectrum Sharing to continue having its moment in the sun. And, due to its early-mover...

Ericsson currently has 31 live networks in 17 countries Thai mobile service provider True Corporation has selected Ericsson as a 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) vendor as part of its national 5G network, which will operate on 700 MHz, 2.6 GHz and 26 GHz frequencies in...

  Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE have secured the majority of a contract to provide up to 250,000 5G base stations to China Telecom and China Unicom, Chinese press reported. With these new contracts, the two Chinese vendors have already secured more than 80% of China’s...

  German carriers Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Vodafone Germany are in the process of expanding 5G coverage across the country through the use of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) technology. Deutsche Telekom said that this expansion in 5G coverage will allow more than half of the German...

    Ericsson has announced that ABB Power Grids will use the 5G-ready Ericsson Industry Connect system at its transformer factory in Ludvika in Sweden, in order to increase productivity and performance. This is the first commercial application of the latest version of the system at a fully...

  Ericsson is largely holding steady in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, with limited financial and operational impacts thus far -- although company executives expressed concern about the possibility that 5G deployments could be delayed in Europe, and warned that the longer national...

US Cellular and Ericsson have added additional capacity to more than 200 sites In response to increased data usage as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, US Cellular, with Ericsson support, has begun to increase capacity for customers in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, New Hampshire,...