Ericsson gets Virgin Media O2 5G SA core gig
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson’s relationship with O2 UK has been maintained after the latter’s merger with Virgin Media.
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson’s relationship with O2 UK has been maintained after the latter’s merger with Virgin Media.
The Spanish bit of Vodafone has joined its British and German stablemates in picking Ericsson for its standalone 5G core work.
US communications group AT&T has thrown in the towel, selling its Network Cloud technology to Microsoft and moving its 5G stuff onto Azure.
It turns out there are some telecoms things even the mighty AWS can’t do, so Nokia has been drafted in to deploy Dish’s 5G SA core.
Nokia will be the sole supplier of 5G radio equipment for the Danish network joint venture between Telia and Telenor, which recently picked up new spectrum to enable it to forge ahead with 5G rollout.
The trend of operators outsourcing as much of their infrastructure as possible to public cloud giants continued with the launch of Vodafone’s first European multi-access Edge computing services.
Norwegian operator group Telenor is striving to create the world’s most diverse standalone 5G core and software vendor Enea is the latest addition to the project.