Last week Ericsson presented its key messages for the now cancelled MWC. Appledore took away four major themes from the event. AI Ericsson showed its clear ambition in AI, and the practical steps it was already taking to implement AI in its network services organization. It was good to see such a strong position on the immediate practical use cases for AI, enabling closed loop network management and optimizing network energy management. It was also good to see a wider ambition beyond network management. Ericsson is looking at the ways that CSPs can collaborate and share their data; aiming to provide a better network for CSPs, and to transform the current fragmented geographically-constrained CSP landscape to one where they become a federated global resource of data, enabled by Ericsson. Enabling 5G Ericsson majored on four points of leadership in 5G, all focused at the efficient introduction of 5G alongside 4G. 5 million 5G ready radio/baseband infrastructure deployed since 2015 – For existing customers 5G only requires software upgrade Dynamic spectrum sharing with 4G with 1ms spectral efficiency – 5G can be deployed very efficiently alongside existing 4G network. Carrier Aggregation – 5G can provide better capacity and coverage Dual mode […]