Mobile data traffic has increased 300-fold since 2011, a new report has revealed. According to figures from Ericsson, mobile data has surged over the past decade and this is set to continue with the adoption of 5G. The report suggests that 5G will become the fastest deployed mobile generation to date with close to 660 […]
Liberty Global-backed Belgian cable operator Telenet has chosen Ericsson, Nokia, and Google Cloud as partners for the rollout of its 5G network. The decisions set Telenet on course for the next step in preparing for the 5G network rollout. Ericsson is already operating the mobile network of Telenet and the pair have now extended their partnership […]
Vodafone Portugal and Portuguese public broadcaster TVI have teamed up to transmit a holographic broadcast over 5G, which Vodafone described as “an unprecedented milestone for our country”. A live broadcast of TVI’s Jornal das 8presented by José Alberto Carvalho was transmitted from TVI’s studio via the Vodafone 5G network to the Vodafone Paredes de Coura […]
Three more hours of video content will be consumed on mobile devices per week away from home in a ‘5G future’, a new report from Ericsson predicts. The report also estimates that an hour of that content will be viewed via AR/VR. According to the report entitled 5G consumer potential: Busting the myths around the […]
Telefónica and Orange España have separately teamed up with Ericsson to highlight the TV broadcast and production capabilities of 5G mobile technology. Telefónica used this week’s Mobile World Congress to demonstrate the use of 5G connections to deliver signals from 5G-connected cameras over a 5G network, with production software installed at the edge, very close […]
Video’s share of the global mobile traffic is due to climb from 60% today to 74% in 2024 as 5G establishes itself as the fastest generation of cellular technology to be rolled out around the world. This is according to the latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, which predicts that 5G will account for 1.5 […]
Only 5G has the speed and low enough latency to support 3D-holographs on a mobile network, according to Ericsson. The company has staged a number of trials using this volumetric display technology in recent months and claims that 3D holographic communication requires about four times as much data as a streamed 4K video. Ericsson says […]
Airbeem has appointed the former CTO of Ericsson Broadcast and Media, Steve Plunkett, to its board of directors and has hired former Comcast executive, Tim Clement, as vice-president of sales. Plunkett, who left Ericsson earlier this year, will advise Airbeem on its technical growth and strategy and brings more than two decades of experience in […]
Limelight Networks and Ericsson have signed an agreement to collaborate on content delivery and edge cloud services. Ericsson is partnering with service providers globally to build the Ericsson Unified Delivery Network (UDN) Edge Cloud Platform – a web-scale edge delivery network. Under the agreement, Limelight’s content delivery technology will be deployed on the Ericsson UDN […]
Ericsson has pushed back the divestment of its majority stake in MediaKind to the end of the year. having originally planned to close the transaction in the third quarter. Ericsson has partnered with One Equity Partners, which will become the majority owner of MediaKind – formerly Ericsson’s Media Solutions business. “The carve-out of MediaKind from […]
