AirHop Communications’ Post

Lots of good advice in one post, if you want to know more about the enablers to capture the value of 5G.

Worth the watch, Rainer and Mats talking about success factors so far in the journey to monetization, including IT transformation, learnings from Enterprise from #NorthStar and more. https://lnkd.in/diG5Wsg8

Exciting news for Malaysia's digital future! 🎉 The partnership between Malaysia and Ericsson is set to drive the nation's 5G ambitions forward. With Ericsson's expertise, this collaboration is poised to revolutionize industries with cutting-edge 5G technology. Over 80 percent of populated areas are now covered, achieving a global-leading 5G Consistency Score. Malaysia is truly leading the way in Southeast Asia. Kudos to Digital Nasional Berhad, Ericsson, and key digital players for making this possible. Embracing this digital transformation will build a brighter, connected future! 🌐📶 What are your thoughts on the partnership between Malaysia and Ericsson for driving 5G advancements? Share below! #Malaysia5G #DigitalInnovation #Ericsson #FutureOfConnectivity #5GRevolution #DigitalTransformation

Well put by Rainer "...We’re pushing boundaries on the innovation front with our #NorthStar program enabling open innovation with industry partners. And the only way to be successful is if we force the need to simplify, standardize, and scale. Ericsson Service Orchestration and Assurance will help us get new, innovative services to market and to revenue quickly, reliably, and easily.” Great to see Telia and Ericsson leading the way: in new way of engaging Enterprises with NorthStar, and making sure the IT OSS BSS can fulfill the needs. https://lnkd.in/dFceXgrV Rainer Deutschmann Ida La Spisa Hein Müskens Mats Lundbäck Marton Sabli Vincenzo Procopio Mats Karlsson Gordon Rawling Nora Wahby Håkan Messén Bruno Sahlström Ericsson Software

👉 Exciting news for Malaysia's digital future! 🎉 The partnership between Malaysia and Ericsson is set to drive the nation's 5G ambitions forward. 🚀 With Ericsson's expertise, this collaboration is poised to revolutionize industries with cutting-edge 5G technology. Over 80 percent of populated areas are now covered, achieving a global-leading 5G Consistency Score. 📶 Malaysia is truly leading the way in Southeast Asia. Kudos to Digital Nasional Berhad, Ericsson, and key digital players for making this possible. 👏 Embracing this digital transformation will build a brighter, connected future! 🌐 #️⃣ #Ericsson #Malaysia #5G #Connectivity #Partnership #Malaysia5G #DigitalInnovation #FutureOfConnectivity #5GRevolution #DigitalTransformation #Technology #Innovation #TeamEricsson

Delighted with this extraordinary leap forward in the collaboration between Umniah and Ericsson. Yet another market 1st in the Kingdom of Jordan and reaffirming Umniah's position as a Regional Technical Frontrunner. After months of "Proof of Concept" verification we are excited to announce that Cognitive Software & Artificial Intelligence is now a cornerstone of Umniah's operations. Ericsson's Cognitive Software portfolio is designed to address the complexities of modern multi-technology and multi-layer networks. Leveraging big data, it proactively identifies and resolves network issues. Cognative capability will further enhance Umniah's leading performance on the Jordanian market and will significantly boost End User/Subscriber experience. https://lnkd.in/eFn5sCVC Faisal Qamhiyah Fadi Pharaon Alaa Ibrahim Abdelghaffar Samer Taha Marwan Omari Jean-Christophe Laneri Ehab Hafez Amer Sakkijha Lucky La Riccia Iwan Stella Fida Kibbi Can Eken Wajeeha Al-Husseini Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC-Jordan) #imaginepossible #truepartnership #5G #aiadoption #customerexperience

Unlocking the full potential of 5G

This news from MWC 2024 is not surprising. It's just an internal affair. As of March 31, 2022, NTT owned 22.81% of NEC's shares. So, it's not special that NTT and NEC have a long-standing business relationship in mobile technologies development including O-RAN. In terms of technology in the O-RAN field, NTT DoCoMo lags far behind Rakuten Symphony, a subsidiary of Rakuten. Rakuten Symphony has already succeeded in exporting O-RAN technologies to overseas MNOs and CSPs, but the NTT research team, which spends 100 million yen every day on R&D, has not produced any results. https://lnkd.in/g4qpjd87

I worked for a telco that almost religiously believed having The Best Network had enormous value, so much so that it drove a substantial part of the company's business plan & valuation. Not surprising as T-Mobile Netherlands (now Odido Nederland) had won the #Umlaut (now Accenture) Award every year from 2016 to 2021 and was even seen as the best network in the world a couple of times and combined, or coinciding, with an amazing and unique growth and value transformation path under the leadership of its CEO Søren Abildgaard and his Organization. Odido's operational performance did not break down when it lost the "Best" Network award to KPN in 2022 (as well as in 2023 & 2024). Odido kept growing on most (if not all) of its financial key indicators irrespective. I would argue that Odido's second-ranking in #Dutch mobile benchmarks is a very impressive achievement for Odido's technology team, as they have been busy replacing their mobile radio network for the last couple of years. Unsurprisingly, it also shifted its focus from having the "Best" Network to being the Dutch Customer Champion, which has always been part of its DNA (internally, at least) and part of the success story over the years. In general, there is a lack of hard evidence supporting the tangible benefits of having the "Best" network, as determined by Umlaut or Ookla benchmarking. In fact, being much better than your customers' expectations and demands may be seen as a waste of shareholders' money and value (i.e., cash wasteful). The below picture summarises the expectations for having the "Best" Network, the "verdict" on those, and 2023 data on the association of mobile network rank and the Count of Telcos with either positive or negative %-changes in mobile RGU and ARPU. No statistical evidence (between 2019 and 2023) is found that having the best network provides substantial operational benefits (apart from making your organization proud ... momentarily). Takeaways from deep diving into a lot of data the last couple of weeks: - There is a lack of statistical evidence to indicate we will have better or worse customer or ARPU growth figures with the network performance rank. In other words, having the "Best" Network does not automatically lead to positive Customer or ARPU growth figures. - The previous year's rank position is the best predictor for the current year's performance rank. - With a few exceptions, incumbent mobile operators are much more likely to take the number one position of the "Best" Network and keep it. - There is a very high correlation between #Ookla's performance rank and that of #Umlaut (not too surprising). The Ookla rank is a reliable predictor for the Umlaut rank, which is useful as Ookla is measured and publicized more frequently. - The total spectrum position is a strong predictor of the best cellular network and winning the "Best" Network award. See also https://lnkd.in/d_RC5Sd5 ("Strategies for being the best (or the worst) cellular network").

Virgin Media O2 and Accenture Partner to Boost Private 5G Solutions for UK Businesses https://lnkd.in/ebjrpTzz Virgin Media O2 and Accenture have announced a new collaboration to seize opportunities in the UK’s growing mobile private network market estimated to reach £528M by 2030*. Virgin Media O2’s 5G private network capabilities for UK businesses will be augmented by Accenture’s expertise in helping enterprises realize the potential of 5G with a broad set of applications for \[…\]