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Blazing the 5G trail
From 2011 to 2020 – and beyond

Ericsson and its key industry partners have reached several
important milestones on the road to global 5G standardization.

2011
We initiated discussions among
the top four mobile infrastructure
vendors to ponder 4G’s successor

2012–2015
We managed the METIS project,collaborating with universities
and research institutes to address
the challenges of 5G mobile
and wireless communications

We built a 5G radio testbed

2015–2016

We proved several
tech concepts, including:• 5G-LTE dual connectivity• 5G data rates exceeding 5GbpsWe won an early 5G award:
Biggest Contribution to 5G Standards
LTE & 5G World Awards

2016–2017
5G advances:
Landmark 5G patentapplication ﬁled – the largest
in the world in terms of inventors
in the cellular industry(source: Derwent Innovation)

Record-breaking 5G ﬁeld trial,
reaching 3.6Gbps at 170kph(with SK Telecom and BMW)Use cases delivered:• Test peak rates of 15Gbps
per user, and a latency below
3 milliseconds (with Telia)• 25Gbps downlink throughput(with NTT DOCOMO andKorea Telecom)

We performed the world’s ﬁrst federated end-to-end network
slicing live demo, providing end-to-end network service between
Korea and Germany (with SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom)

Multiple 5G NewRadio (NR) trials

First public 5G live network use cases
deployed in Europe (with Telia)

Ericsson and Qualcomm,in collaboration withleading communications
service providers,
showcased 5G NR
Non-Standalone (NSA)
multi-vendor
interoperability, as thestandard was approved

5G network tested at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway (with Verizon)

First end-to-end multi-vendor
5G commercial network data
call over licensed 3.5GHzspectrum (with Telstra and Intel)

First 5G deals signed(with Vodafone UK,Swisscom and Verizon)

2018
Connected a smartphone
prototype to a live 5G network(with Swisscom and Qualcomm)First to successfully perform
interoperability tests withthird-party device chipsetsin low, mid and high bands

2019–present

Ericsson and MediaTek completed a
5GC and NR Standalone (SA) call on a
2.6GHz band and the industry’s ﬁrst
successful Voice over New Radio (VoNR)
interoperability test

Ericsson 5G went livein South Korea withSK Telecom

The ﬁrst 5G callon 600MHz(with T-Mobile USand Intel)

Over 5 million 5G-ready(hardware) radios shipped toour customers since 2015

First 5GC andNR SA commercial
network enabled

Leading 5G standardization,with the most contributions for4G and 5G; counting declarations toETSI and applying an essentiality
ﬁlter resulted in Ericsson being on
top of the 5G patent race

First with live networks inlow, mid and high bands

First commercial cloudnative container-based
Evolved Packet Core for
4G (with Verizon) andfor 5G (with Telstra)

Ericsson Spectrum
Sharing milestones:• Ericsson Spectrum Sharing (ESS) won
Overall Mobile Technology and Best
Mobile Technology Breakthrough at
the 2020 Global Mobile Awards• First transglobal 5G data call(with OPPO, Qualcomm Technologies,Swisscom and Telstra)• ESS is live in four networks

First with commercial
live networks in the US,
South Korea, Europe,
Australia and the
Middle East

Ericsson, Mercedes-Benz
and Telefónica Deutschlandestablished the world’s
ﬁrst 5G network forautomotive production

100 commercial 5G
agreements or contracts
with unique service
providers, of which morethan 50 are live networks

Established a fully automated
5G smart factory in the US andmodernized production in ourChina and Estonia factories

BeyondWe will see 5G take off as a platform for innovation:• 5G will serve consumers and businesses and take IoT to the nextlevel, with enhanced mobility, ﬂexibility, reliability and security• We predict 2.8 billion global 5G subscriptions and expect 5G
to account for 45 percent of global mobile data trafﬁc by theend of 2025

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