Ericsson’s automated ambitions for ports and more
Ericsson is flexing its enterprise muscles, once again The vendor’s Head of Thought Leadership, Peter Linder, highlighted work on automated ports SNS Telecom & IT noted that Ericsson had also undertaken a public-private port partnership in Singapore Ericsson is flexing...
Analysts say Ericsson could buy into the Intel NEX spin-off
Ericsson is reportedly in talks to buy into Intel’s NEX unit Analyst Jack Gold noted that Intel was already working on a customized chip for Ericsson Gold said that Nokia or Samsung could also buy into spin-off When Intel said it...
Ericsson seals Aduna Global venture with 12 telcos to drive API adoption
Ericsson retains a 50% stake in Aduna Global, with the rest owned by AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon and other operators The joint venture builds on the CAMARA open source project to offer APIs for authentication, service assurance and more Aduna...
Tarrifs are sure to hurt more for smaller RAN vendors
Tariffs are unlikely to derail the entire open RAN movement, but will affect smaller vendors more profoundly If tariffs push operators toward more conservative investment approaches, that could mean open RAN suffers more than traditional RAN Smaller vendors are already...
Tariffs nibble at CSP stocks but take big bite out of Apple
Wireless carrier stocks followed the rest of the market into negative territory Tariffs will push equipment costs higher, but carriers are expected to stick with their current capex plans For new and smaller open RAN vendors, tariffs can only spell...
Established vendors aren’t only players in private 5G game
Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei aren’t the only options in the private 5G gear game SNS Telecom & IT told us that Celona has over 100 customers STL Partners said Bristol-Myers Squibb Biologics Manufacturing Facility in Dublin has used Vilicom for...
Airspan CEO pins hopes on open RAN, private networks
Airspan emerged from its 2024 restructuring with a stronger balance sheet The company recently received a $42.7 million grant to fund open RAN development In addition to open RAN, CEO Glenn Laxdal sees more opportunity in private networks Open Radio...
Trump likes O-RAN, even as Dell’Oro says multi-vendor dream is fading
Despite poor performance so far, Dell’Oro Group thinks O-RAN will have a near 25% share of the RAN market by 2029 Meanwhile, the Trump administration is planning to roll out O-RAN infrastructure with partners in the Pacific region Just...
Is Nokia’s bad, terrible, no-good year finally over?
Nokia said mobile networks are stabilizing after a rough few quarters CEO Pekka Lundmark noted that the vendor added 55 new private network customers in the quarter Nokia now has 850 private network customers in total Nokia appears to be...
Ericsson CEO: 6G not your ‘normal’ new generation of wireless
Like it or not, 6G is likely to get introduced in 2030 But it will be more of an evolution of 5G rather than a wholesale lift, according to Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm Future wireless “G” upgrade cycles will...