The Voice of 5G

We recap some 5G news from the last couple of weeks - we talk 5G speed record, 5G for water utilities and eSIM among other interesting occurrences. For more on eSIM look here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/digital-services/trending/esim and as usual, you can reach us on 5gpodcast@ericsson.com.

We're summarizing the year together with Ericsson's head of 5G commercialization - Thomas Noren - from the first launches in April until December 19. We also ask Thomas to answer some questions from the live LinkedIn broadcast on November 26! Here you can find the December statistics from GSA, mentioned on the podcast: https://gsacom.com/paper/lte-5g-market-statistics-december-2019/

Instead of doing one live broadcast and one podcast episode about the latest 5G forecast figures - now reaching all the way to 2025 - we combined the two and actually recorded the podcast live in Ericsson's showroom, with guests Patrik Cerwall and Jawad Manssour. You can see all our pretty faces here: https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6604744358250053632/ and download the report h...

We are excited that the president of the USA is tweeting about 5G - but also about all the interesting 5G news out there and some tweets we got after our last episode about 5G indoors! Paul will dig down and talk a bit about wifi and also explain how building owners can use the Ericsson Radio Dot system to provide multi-operator coverage in for example shopping centers.

When it comes down to seamless connectivity - what about when you take your smartphone indoors? Do you use WiFi, DAS or Small Cells? We have Jessey Huang visiting us in the studio all the way from Beijing, and Lindsay Beall from Ottowa in Canada on the phone - giving us their best sales pitch for 5G indoor coverage! The paper mentioned in the episode is available here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/...

What's so special about radio antennas for 5G? We have Ericsson's Strategic Product Manager for Radio with us in the podcast studio and he'll explain all about Active Antennas - antennas with radios built in, and also give us an update on why it was important for Ericsson to acquire the antenna and filter part from our long-time partner Kathrein.

What is AI and what does it have to do in a 5G network? We're joined in the studio by Rickard Cöster, technical expert of data science machine learning at Ericsson Research and Patrik Persson, strategic product manager for "AI in RAN" to give you an overview. You can find out more about the launch here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/networks/offerings/5g/ai-ran and contact us on 5gpodcast@ericsson.c...

It's the week of Mobile World Congress - this time in Los Angeles, California - and we talk to B2B tech influencer Evan Kirstel who's covering the event for Ericsson on site. What's the highlights he's seen so far? And does he have a 5G phone?

We give you a very brief update about what was showing at India Mobile Congress and an interview with Nitin Bansal, Managing Director and Head of Network Solutions for Ericsson in India who talks about what's happening with 5G in the country which GSMA is expecting to have 88 million 5G subscriptions in 2025.

What areas can service providers expect to be making money on with their 5G connectivity? We have Martin Ekstrand in the studio guiding us through a new study called "5G for business - a 2030 market compass", looking into potential revenues for 200 use cases across 10 industries - and find that industry digitalization could be a USD 700 billion opportunity by 2030. Download the report here: www.er...

As it's #UNGA74 we have a look into our own Technology For Good Impact Report and talk about a couple of cases wher 5G can contribute. We also bring up some 5G news and answer a bunch of listener questions. Download the report here https://www.ericsson.com/4a7095/assets/local/about-ericsson/sustainability-and-corporate-responsibility/documents/2019/technology-for-good-impact-report-2019.pdf and re...

Focus your multi-array nanometerwave antennas for radio signals on this new episode where we try to make sense of the basics behind the latest 5G news and developments. Then use those 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz lowband receivers and let us entertain you! Music: May the Chords Be With You by Computer Music All-stars, and contact us on 5gpodcast@ericsson.com.

We're visited by industry analyst (and influencer) Daryl Schoolar - practice leader of Ovum's Intelligent Networks team, specializing in the mobile access network. He has been vising Ericsson HQ to present their view on what's happening in the telecom industry - and he's also a podcast listener. Now he has the opportunity to tell us what he sees happening in 5G. Follow him on twitter @DHSchoolar a...

After a couple of episodes of interviews and events we're recapping what's happened in the last couple of weeks with 5G launches all over the world! Let us know if there's something we've missed by e-mailing us on 5gpodcast@ericsson.com or pinging us on social media - we're on twitter @janinahed & @PaulCowlng. And we'll be back in August! Music: May the Chords Be With You by Computer Music All-sta...

We're taking our show on the road by visiting Kista Mobility Day where Ericsson and other tech companies and initiatives were showing the latest connected inventions on the streets - right in an area covered by our 5G test networks! We talked drones with Petra Dalunde from Urban ICT Arena, connected ambulances with Ericsson's Kati Öhman and afterwards we also managed to talk to Per Degerman, CTO o...

We're visited by Hannes Ekström, head of product line 5G RAN in Ericsson Networks who tells us all about the latest product additions to Ericsson's 5G Platform, more about that here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/networks/offerings/5g/stand-alone-nr. Paul also talks about running "the Ragnar" - a 285km race around Mälaren - and we update you on the latest 5G news.

Two great guests visits us! First the executive editor of Ericsson Mobility Report, Patrik Cerwall, who talks about how wrong he was in Episode 4. Second, Ajit Bhatia, who's been working together with Ericsson's customer Sprint to launch 5G across four cities in the US, gives us an update on that launch. If you want to know more about what Sprint is doing - listen to Ivo Rook, Senior Vice Presiden...

Not everyone in Ericsson works with Networks – today we are talking to Anne Bezancon and Paul McLachlan from Emodo, part of Ericsson's Technology and New Businesses area. They have another perspective of the use of 5G and explain their vision of what happens when 5G meets data science. The podcast they mention is called FIVE, and more about Emodo here: https://www.emodoinc.com/ And of course we ha...

In episode 24 we talked about 5G for Consumers, but of course we also need to talk about 5G for Industries. What's in 5G for enterprises - manufacturing - healthcare and other areas? We're joined via Skype from London by Peter Marshall to talk about this important topic. Here's the report Peter mentions in the podcast: https://www.ericsson.com/en/trends-and-insights/consumerlab/consumer-insights/r...

We have two of Ericsson's customers visiting the podcast - Klaus Liechti of Swisscom, Switzerland, and Glenn Landgren from Hi3G, Denmark, and we're recording live from the 5G Transport Summit in Gothenburg. For questions, comments and suggestions e-mail us on 5gpodcast@ericsson.com.

What's in 5G for consumers? And what's the business potential for communication service providers (ie mobile operators)? We talk to Head of Ericsson's ConsumerLab, Jasmeet Singh Sethi, about their latest study "5G Consumer Potential" and wonder what will be the next "killer app". Download the report here, it's free: https://www.ericsson.com/en/trends-and-insights/consumerlab/consumer-insights/repo...

What are core networks and what's so different with 5G Core that it's not launched until 2020? We have Ericsson's head of 5G Core, Erwin van Rijssen, with us in the studio to explain Stand Alone (SA) versus Non-Stand Alone (NSA) 5G, EPC vs 5GC and the user benefits of Network Slicing. Last week Erwin participated in a webinar about Network Slicing, and if you want to know more you can see it here:...

Faster than we imagined and a bit of the race to launch the first 5G networks for enhanced mobile broadband for consumers with smartphones! Ericsson's Janina Hedberg and Paul Cowling spends this week's episode on topics like what's happening in South Korea, US and Switzerland, what about the 5Groeningen winners, the development of micro processors - and Dogglas the dog turning 13.

Ericsson's Head of Research, Magnus Frodigh, and Head of Technology Strategy, Håkan "Mr 5G" Andersson joins us in the studio to talk about how 5G came to be, what it is now, and what it will be in the future - and will there be a 6G? Music: May the Chords Be With You by Computer Music All-stars

Come with us as we do a deep-dive into the world of interoperability tests, 5G chipsets and 5G devices – smartphones! – together with our Global Partner Director, Lisa Englund. And we also talk a bit about 5G Transport – will it be microwave or fiber? This is where you can find the Microwave Outlook mentioned in the podcast: https://www.ericsson.com/en/microwave-outlook Here’s the blog by Kevin Mu...