Thursday 24 September 2020 | 13:32 CET | News Swisscom said it has partnered with Ericsson and Qualcomm to pick start-ups to develop 5G applications through the 5G Start-up Challenge competition. The winners of the competition can test their applications in March 2021 at Swisscom’s 5G laboratory or other locations and regions and even on trains,...Read More

Source: https://www.itweb.co.za/content/kYbe97XD8XG7AWpG By Admire Moyo, ITWeb’s news editor. Johannesburg, 21 st September 2020 Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE is preparing to capitalise on the expected growth of next-generation 5G technologies in South Africa. This was revealed by Fu Zhen, chief technology officer of ZTE South Africa, and Fahad Nisar, technical marketing director at ZTE South Africa, in an...Read More

The new Slovenian government does not recognize the previous government’s support for a 5G moratorium. Telekom Slovenije and Ericsson roll out the first 5G commercial network in Slovenia in one week by software upgrade Slovenia’s 5G upgrade takes just one week August 18, 2020 //By Nick Flaherty Telekom Slovenije has launched the first commercial 5G network...Read More

Excerpt: The installation and launch of Ericsson’s base stations on Tele2’s network saw the completion of 50 percent of the five-year network modernization deal reached during MWC 2019 in Barcelona and follows the first 5G zone in the center of Moscow in August 2019. Read more at: https://www.ericsson.com/en/news/2020/8/tele2-network-performanceRead More

Source: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/ericsson-5g-could-dramatically-increase-network-energy-consumption/?fbclid=IwAR1el13F0N3pAHoTS8S4B_F8avgobQNKaJnqIMVK78MtRSgW8SIDxV0T3us By Davine Janssen | EURACTIV.com 24-07-2020 It is the industry’s responsibility to roll-out the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication networks without increasing energy consumption, Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson writes in a report outlining how this can be done. “Energy consumption is set to increase dramatically if 5G is deployed in the same way as 3G...Read More

Reuters July 24, 2020 EU countries must take urgent action to diversify their 5G suppliers, the European Commission said on Friday, amid U.S. pressure on the bloc to follow Britain and ban China’s Huawei from 5G networks. By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS: EU countries must take urgent action to diversify their 5G suppliers, the European Commission said on Friday,...Read More

July 21, 2020 China is likely to retaliate against telecom network suppliers makers Nokia and Ericsson if the European Union bans Huawei Technologies from 5G networks, the Wall Street Journal reported. The United Kingdom last week ordered telecom operators not to purchase 5G components from Huawei from the end of this year and remove all existing...Read More

Ericsson Annual Report 2019: p.131, Source https://www.ericsson.com/495c1f/assets/local/investors/documents/2019/ericsson-annual-report-2019-en.pdf Excerpt:Read More

Ericsson’s Charles Ribordy, Customer Solutions Sales Manager, speaks with Sean Kinney from RCR Wireless News about the deployment challenges of space, power and connectivity in 5G networks. Ericsson is solving these challenges with active and passive optical solutions in the Fronthaul 6000 series with varying concealment and installation options to cover any deployment challenge.Read More

Source: https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2019/11/mtn-south-africa-selects-ericsson-for-commercial-5g-core-and-radio?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_campaign=bnew_bdgs_global_5g_core_ran_20191114&utm_content=news Related: Earlier this week, MTN South Africa and Huawei carried out a 5G trial during the AfricaCom event, South African press reported. The demo runs on test spectrum in the 3.5GHz band, which is also called the C-Band. The Chinese vendor said that its previous demonstrations with MTN used spectrum in the 28GHz band....Read More