AT&T’s announcement last week that it had chosen Ericsson to be its open RAN wireless vendor contained another news nugget that was easily overlooked: Ericsson is building the equipment in the U.S. and has received Build America, Buy America authorization…
AT&T plans to upgrade 70% of its mobile network to open radio access network (Open RAN) technology by 2026. The company said yesterday that it will use technology from Ericsson for the deployments, but also noted that deployment plans include…
UScellular is aiming at deploying private wireless networks in a number of industry segments. Initially, the focus will be on industry 4.0 manufacturing, logistics, distribution and warehouse use cases. The second group of target verticals will be hospitals, the industrial…
Verizon, which is more than halfway to its goal of rolling out 20,000 virtual radio access networks (vRANs) by 2025, has begun deploying devices from Ericsson. Radio access networks link mobile devices to the core network. Virtualizing the RAN —…
Ericsson said today that it achieved 5G speeds exceeding 1 Gbps using CBRS spectrum indoors. The demonstration occurred on a standalone 5G network at an Ericsson facility in Texas. The network was multi-operator, neutral-host compatible. In the demonstration, the company…
Ericsson and Google have demonstrated network slicing on Android 13-based devices in which enterprise and consumer use cases are supported. In addition, the demonstration showed what Ericsson says is the first time that a slice can be used by communications…
Ericsson and the National Science Foundation-funded Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program have struck an agreement under which the vendor will provide its radio access network (RAN) and related equipment and services to the Agriculture and Rural Communities (ARA)…
UScellular and Ericsson are testing 5G and drone technology “at altitude” to determine how the connectivity that the drone experiences differs from connectivity on the ground. The initial trials involved a visual line of sight operations. A drone outfitted with…
Ninety percent of the wireless subscriptions in North America will be 5G in 2027, according to a 5G subscriptions forecast from Ericsson. The Ericsson Mobility Report, which contains upbeat news for 5G providers and their ecosystem, says that there will…
DEC 07, 2021 – PLANO, Texas – Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced a partnership with Nex-Tech Wireless to commercially launch Nex-Tech Wireless’s 5G capabilities in rural Kansas. Ericsson has been the primary vendor for Nex-Tech Wireless on their 4G deployments…
By 2027, 5G will be the dominant mobile access technology, according to a 5G forecast from the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. At that time it will have 4.4 billion subscribers globally, according to the report. Also by 2027, 5G will…
Ericsson’s plan to acquire Vonage, announced today, aims to expand Ericsson’s enterprise business and also create new opportunities for Ericsson’s wireless network operator customers by facilitating the development of new 4G and 5G applications leveraging application programming interfaces (APIs). “Our…
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