Turning on 5G at MWC
It’s been a fantastic a few days at Mobile World Congress (MWC). Our President and CEO B?rje Ekholm kick-started the show on Monday with media and analysts around the globe. B?rje highlighted how 5G has moved from being a buzzword to a reality. We’ve signed 38 memorandums of understanding with service providers for 5G trials and several contracts for commercial 5G. This includes announcements this week with Telstra for network evolution, T-Mobile to deploy a multi-band nationwide 5G network and Swisscom for 5G network slicing. With our collaborations with industries and academia we now have over 100 partnerships and are really leading the way towards creating ecosystems that drive use cases that benefit both industry and society.
With deliveries for 5G targeted for the end of this year, does this mean that customers will need to wait for 5G? Not at all. 4G is the foundation for 5G and service providers need to make sure their 4G networks are in shape and 5G ready. By having a network already in place that is ready for 5G, we’re providing operators with an opportunity to turn on 5G from Q4 this year through a software upgrade, with our first complete 5G platform.
With new radio products for Massive MIMO, LTE and network slicing for 4G, we’re demonstrating this here at MWC. I’ve seen some great proof points on our booth, including on 5G core, radio and transport portfolios, together with OSS, BSS, network services and security.
This week we also announced our collaboration with TIM towards early 5G adoption and launched our latest 5G-IoT report. We’ve also teamed up with China Mobile to develop Industry 4.0 IoT opportunities and announced our collaboration with MTS to open a new research center in Russia.
5G is inherently complex, but the combination of our new portfolio and 5G support for radio gives service providers access to a very broad and flexible portfolio. I’m excited to be able to showcase our commitment to our customers this week in solving complex 5G challenges. With the launch of our Business Potential Report 2.0 this has led to further credibility towards how our customers perceive our views on 5G.
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Great summary Arun, a pulse on the network pulse in Europe and Latin America
Arun, Wish the best in your endeavor to get the best out of combining the soulmates radio and fiber. As rightly said by Bengt Nordstrom "The more speed you like to push through a mobile network the more it will look like a fixed network"