Ericsson racks up another 5G win with Deutsche Telekom deal

Its been a good week for network infrastructure vendor Ericsson. On Dec. 11, the company won a contract with U.S. operator Verizon to provide core, RAN, transport and services for a 2018 commercial 5G fixed wireless access launch. On the heels of that win, Ericsson announced on Dec. 14, it was selected by Deutsche Telekom to provide a “5G-ready” RAN as part of a five-year deal. Specifically, Ericsson will multi-standard RAN solutions covering DT’s 2G, 3G and LTE networks, while laying the groundwork for the switch to 5G once the 3GPP finalizes its specification in mid-2018. The agreements covers basebands, radios, OSS for unified network management, and hardware and software support and services, according to Ericsson.