The telecom giant awarded 5G RAN contracts to the two European vendors at the expense of the two major Chinese telecoms equipment providers.

Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm blames European government officials and regulators for letting Europe fall behind Asia and the United States on 5G.

The “cognitive intelligence” platform was developed with Microsoft as a way to use AI to help customers manage their own accounts with the service provider.

Partnerships between large tech companies and telecom operators are growing as 5G efforts gain momentum.

“We hype it up, everybody is talking about it, but how is [5G] going to really transform the future," said Sprint’s Mishka Dehghan, during her keynote at the Big

This platform, TrueConnect Hybrid, provides customers with a full-stack of networking and internet services and resources including SD-WAN.

Vodafone Spain is to work with Huawei on a pilot in Andalusia, while Telefónica teams up with Ericsson and Nokia.

One U.K. parliament member claims that allowing Huawei to participate in the 5G network would be like “nesting a dragon.”

The carrier says it has provisionally agreed to use RAN equipment and antennas from Huawei for 5G, but the Dutch government has yet to make a final decision.

The British government has stopped short of banning Huawei but wants to exclude the vendor from sensitive parts of the network.

The company had inked 40 contracts for 5G commercial networks by the end of March.

Nineteen vendors took part in tests that placed a strong focus on synchronization for 5G and the 5G readiness of multi-vendor transport networks.

The two companies previously announced a partnership this year to build a 5G-ready, IP-based automated network in India.

Japan's telecom regulator also imposed a condition that effectively bans Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE from the country's 5G networks.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the investigation included a raid on Ericsson’s offices in Beijing.

The reference designs offer a peek inside the brains of operators, Timon Sloane, VP of marketing and ecosystem at the Open Networking Foundation, told SDxCentral in an interview.

By freeing up more spectrum during the next five years, the U.S. wireless industry could add $391 billion to the U.S. economy and create 1.8 million new jobs.

U.K. authorities have “limited confidence in Huawei’s ability to understand the content of any given build or in their ability to perform true root cause analysis of identified issues.”

The Pentagon is planning for a series of experiments later this year to learn more about propagation, latency, interference, and the equipment necessary to power 5G.

Andy Purdy argues that the best approach to security is to require a diversity of suppliers and clear divisions of responsibility.

The update includes additional application intelligence capabilities, a cloud-based orchestrator, session-based routing and path selection, and a cloud application database.

Exatel has been pushing for a 5G model that would see all operators share the same network. Dutch operators don’t seem too keen to share.

The U.S. government is pressuring Germany to ban Huawei from 5G deployments over national security concerns.

The white paper is a “pretty high level” education piece on where the 5G ecosystem is in terms of using open source platforms.