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The Ericsson massive MIMO diet yields 12kg radio

Weight is the fashionable differentiator in the kit vendor world these days and Ericsson has raised the stakes with its latest lean-and-mean radio.

• 1 day ago

NEC and AWS expand partnership to drag 5G even further into the cloud

The two tech heavyweights are expanding their existing collaboration to deliver cloud native 5G, enhanced digital government solutions, as well as hybrid cloud.

• 08 Sep 2021

Ericsson CEO vows to fight for Chinese presence

Börje Ekholm, CEO of Swedish kit vendor Ericsson, is determined not to throw in the towel over China despite geopolitical forces working against him.

• 03 Sep 2021

Ericsson gets some free marketing from Vodafone

Vodafone UK reckons it can halve 5G energy consumption by using a new piece of Ericsson kit.

• 02 Sep 2021

The industry is largely happy with how 5G has come about

Eight out of ten telecoms professionals participating in a recent Telecoms.com survey said 5G has either met or exceeded their expectations.

• 13 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom raises full-year guidance on back of Q2 uplift

Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Eir plans gigabit expansion in Ireland; MTN enjoys mixed H1; Nokia in smart grid trials.

• 12 Aug 2021

Exfo founder boosts offer to take company private

Germain Lamonde, who founded Canada’s communications-sector test, monitoring, and analytics equipment maker Exfo and is its majority shareholder, has boosted his offer to take the company private.

• 10 Aug 2021

Huawei revenues dip 29% in third straight quarter of decline

Huawei has had its biggest-ever dip in revenue, from two years into Washington’s sanctions which battered both its network infrastructure and smartphone sales and the company’s crucial access to semiconductors.

• 09 Aug 2021

Eurobites: Iliad gets on board with FiberCop in Italy

Also in today’s EMEA regional roundup: former Royal Mail boss in line for BT chairman role; Nokia wins at Delta Fiber; Brexit’s roaming ramifications.

• 09 Aug 2021

5G network kit revenues to near $20 billion this year — report

Global 5G network infrastructure revenue is on course for a growth spike this year, but growth will slow in 2022, according to new data published on Wednesday.

• 04 Aug 2021

Ericsson wins a bit bigger in China, as Nokia misses out — report

Report suggests that the Swedish vendor has won 3% of a joint contract from China Telecom and China Unicom.

• 03 Aug 2021

Optus aggregates 3.5 GHz with mmWave, plans commercial launch this year

Optus has shared details of a lab trial that saw it aggregate 3.5 GHz frequencies with spectrum in the 26 GHz mmWave band to enable it to provide high-speed 5G connectivity over a wider area.

• 02 Aug 2021

Verizon also entrusts its messaging and RCS to Google

Following in the footsteps of T-Mobile and AT&T, the last of America’s “big three” Verizon announced that Android Messages will be the default bearer of its RCS messaging service from next year.

• 21 Jul 2021

Ericsson got just 2% of China Mobile’s 700MHz radio award

As anticipated, Ericsson was awarded just 2% of the available base station work for China Mobile’s 700 MHz 5G rollout, with even Nokia getting a bigger share.

• 19 Jul 2021

Nokia rolls out Africa’s newest greenfield network

Africell is using equipment from Nokia in what will become Africa’s newest mobile network when it launches in Angola later this year.

• 12 Jul 2021

Huawei’s Ryan Ding: Ongoing Innovation Is Lighting up the Future of Every Industry

[Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2021] During MWC Barcelona 2021, Huawei Executive Director and President of Carrier BG Ryan Ding delivered a keynote speech Innovation: Lighting up the Future. In his keynote, Ding said that innovation in ICT is becoming a key driver of the global economy and its value is moving beyond the telecoms industry. Ongoing innovation in 5G, in particular, will bring more value to operators, the ICT industry, and the global economy, and will light up the future of every industry.

• 29 Jun 2021

Huawei inevitably loses appeal against FCC designation

A US appeals court has denied Huawei’s petition for review of the decision by the FCC to designate it a national security threat.

• 21 Jun 2021

Nokia bags 5G RAN deal in Denmark

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.

• 17 Jun 2021

MTN to roll out OpenRAN in Africa this year

MTN this week became the latest major telco to commit to deploying OpenRAN technology, which it claims will be a “game-changer” in emerging markets.

• 17 Jun 2021

Huawei continues to lose share of booming global telecoms equipment market

Telecoms analyst firm Dell’Oro has published its Q1 21 numbers for the overall equipment market and they show Ericsson and Nokia continuing to close the gap with Huawei.

• 16 Jun 2021