The Voice of 5G

We're back with one last track before the year ends - and it's all to celebrate 10 years of Ericsson Mobility Report, the twice yearly update on statistics and forecasts for mobile networks around the world! With Mr Mobility Report himself, Patrik Cerwall, and Bengt Nordström, Managing Director of Strategy & Consulting at Accenture - we talk about how the mobile networks have developed from the 80...

US service providers were among the first to launch 5G and we have Ericsson's head of 5G marketing in North America, Peter Linder (known as @onelinders on Twitter), on the podcast to give us an update on what has happened, what's happening and what's about to happen with 5G in the near future in the United States of America.

Half a billion 5G subscriptions by the end of 2021? Let's take a look at the latest mobile network statistics! We have Anette Lundvall, project manager for Ericsson Mobility Report, on the podcast to give us an update on the progress of rolling out 5G technology in the world. You can download the report here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report

What's so special about millimeter wave 5G? And what do they mean when they talk high band? In today's episode we have Ericsson's mmWave product experts Anders Helsing and Laetitia Falconetti with us to explain all about mmWave, and why it's so special. They call it "the icing on the cake" in this blog: https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2021/3/why-5g-millimeter-wave-is-the-icing-on-the-cake

What's going on inside the 5G equipment? What's the difference between having purpose-built hardware for 5G processing and putting the computing into the cloud? We're visited by Michael Begley, Head of Ericsson's RAN Compute, who will explain why processing is increasingly important in 5G, as well as what Moore's law brings to the table. More about Ericsson Silicon here https://www.ericsson.com/en...

How is 5G spectrum allocated between 4G and 5G in the best, most dynamic way? Once again we have Dr Sibel Tombaz - or Mrs Ericsson Spectrum Sharing as she's also known - joining our podcast, this time together with Hannes Ekström, to talk about the latest development withing Dynamic Spectrum Sharing. What's happened during the last year, is it in use, and what do the service providers say about it...

We're diving into the area of slicing 5G networks together with experts Pehr Claesson, marketing director at Ericsson with focus on enterprise opportunities, and Ajay Gautam, strategic product manager for RAN slicing, also at Ericsson. Find out more about Network Slicing on our website here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/network-slicing

We've called in Ericsson's Head of Networks for Europe and Latin America, Christian Leon, to give us an update about what has happened in these regions when it comes to 5G during 2020, and what we can expect in 2021. One unexpected thing that happened between the time of the interview and this week was that Sweden - at last - finalized our 5G midband spectrum auctions!

Together with Cecilia Atterwall, head of Ericsson Network's marketing and communicationss, and Hannes Ekström, head of Ericsson's 5G access products, we look back on the year of 2020 - what happened within the area of 5G and 5G technology for us during the year? What were the highlights in this year riddled by the pandemic? And what are we looking forward to seeing more of in 2021?

How can enterprises, small businesses and startups use 5G? We get this question quite a lot, which is why we've invited Cristina Pandrea, Senior Researcher at Ericsson Consumer Lab, and project lead for Startup 5G program, and Jasmeet Sethi, Head of Ericsson's Consumer Lab, to this podcast to talk about their new program Startup 5G! More info here: https://www.ericsson.com/startup-5g

We're visited by colleagues Eric Parsons and Gabriel Foglander from Ericsson's Cloud RAN team who will talk about moving functionality from the Radio Access Network, the RAN, to the cloud - ie moving it to connected, virtualized servers. Why is this such a hot topic right now and why is this important for 5G latency? Read more about what they have just launched here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/pr...

In this episode Antti Kauppinen of Finish Erillisverkot is visiting the podcast to tell us all about the Virve 2.0 project, providing connectivity to the public safety workers in Finland together with Ericsson's Head of Mission Critical Networks, Manuel Ruiz. Manuel will be one of the speakers at the Critical Communication Week, an online event you can join here: https://www.criticalcommunications...

There are a multitude of applications - or as we call it "use cases" - for 5G, and today the time has come to power utilities! What can 5G bring to power - well that's actually the headline for a report from our Consumer & Industry Lab and we have their senior researcher Patrik Hedlund as well as Marcus Törnqvist who is strategic product manager for Ericsson's IoT platform services with us in this...

5G is not just about hardware! In this episode we talk about software features which are already improving 5G coverage and capacity! We're talking massive MIMO, Uplink Booster and carrier aggregation with Sebastian Faxér and Björn Karlberg from our product management team - what are these features doing for 5G and will we see more software upgrades going forward?

A press release went out this week with the heading "New Ericsson AIR solutions to accelerate 5G mid-band deployment" - and we have David Hammarwall, head of product line Radio at Ericsson and Mikael Eriksson, who heads up the antenna business from our Kathrein acquisition to talk about these launches. Learn more about Antenna Integrated Radios and why mid-band spectrum is crucial from these exper...

New Ericsson Mobility Report is out with a special section about the impact of the pandemic on mobile networks and network roll-outs and in this episode we have both the Patrik Cerwall, executive editor of that report, and Jasmeet Singh Sethi who has studied how ICT consumers are impacted by the pandemic. You can find Ericsson Mobility Report here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report/repor...

Returning guests Marie Hogan and Thomas Noren reached out to give us an update about all the fascinating things happening in the area of IoT - and especially in the Critical IoT area where dedicated networks play a vital part. The article mentioned in this episode can be found here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/ericsson-technology-review/articles/critical-iot-connectivity

Let's talk some strategy! We have guests from Ericsson's Strategic Customer Engagements team with us today to talk about their new report "Capturing business opportunities beyond mobile broadband" which is a guide for communication service providers wanting to venture into the B2B sphere of providing connectivity not only to smartphone users, but also enterprises. Dowload the report here: https://...

We were waiting for spectrum auctions, but commercial 5G in Sweden jumped the gun and launched already in May 2020! We have Ericsson's Head of Marketing and Communications in Northern & Central Europe, Thomas Johansen, on the line to talk about how the biggest service provider in Sweden, Telia, has started rolling out their commercial 5G network - what happened, what are they doing, and what's com...

We're talking to Ericsson's head of sustainability, Mats Pellbäck-Scharp, about how 5G can "break the energy curve". The expectations might be that as 5G means more data being transmitted, it will also use more power. But is that true? Here's the report we're talking about: https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/sustainability-and-corporate-responsibility/environment/product-energy-performance

Under lock-down, Dr Sibel Tombaz returns to give us the latest updates on Dynamic Spectrum Sharing - and especially our own Ericsson Spectrum Sharing solution. She visited us in episode 3 when we were talking about 5G spectrum - at a time when 3GPP 5G was still not launched, and there were no 5G phones... To learn more about our spectrum sharing solution, follow this link: https://www.ericsson.com...

It was 4 AM in Texas and 8 PM in Melbourne when we recorded this podcast with two remote guests - Sören Marklund, Portfolio Strategy for Support Services and Andres Torres, Strategic Product Manager for Network Roll-out services - while we were keeping ourselves away from the ongoing pandemic in our studio. This is the case with TDC, Denmark, mentioned in this episode: https://www.ericsson.com/en/...

We visit a record breaking 5G speed test and talk to Ericsson's Head of High-Band and Active Antenna Systems, Sibel Tombaz, as well as test expert Anthony Paravati, who is guiding us through the setup of a speed test. You also get some information about different speed tests and what to look out for from Paul, we talk URLLC, and introduce our sister podcast The Startup 5, which will share the same...

5G is being rolled out right now, but what's happening on the actual premises where the hardware is when 5G is added? We have Shashi Pemmaraju who's busy managing 5G customer solutions for Ericsson across sites in North America, and Martin Högberg who's our head of site solutions, visiting this episode to talk about 5G Sites. More info here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/networks/offerings/5g/5g-sit...

We're not keeping quiet about private networks! It's being talked about - but what does private networks actually mean? Manuel Ruiz is Ericsson's head of Mission Critical and Private Networks visits us in the studio to talk about this interesting area - what's happening and how will it be used in the future? And if you want to know more about the techy stuff, here's their new whitepaper: https://w...