T-Mobile Signs $3.5B Deal with Ericsson for 5G Gear

September 12, 2018

Making another bold commitment to its upcoming deployment of a national 5G network, T-Mobile announced today that it has entered a multi-year agreement worth $3.5 billion for Swedish telecom vendor Ericsson to supply 5G-related tech gear.

The deal comes after the third-largest U.S. mobile company entered into another $3.5 billion 5G gear deal with Nokia in July.

Under the deal, Ericsson will provide T-Mobile with the latest 5G New Radio (NR) hardware and software compliant with 3GPP standards.

The contract also covers Ericsson’s digital services solutions, including dynamic orchestration, business support systems (BSS) and Ericsson Cloud Core.

“We have recently decided to increase our investments in the US to be closer to our leading customers and better support them with their accelerated 5G deployments; thereby bringing 5G to life for consumers and enterprises across the country,” said Niklas Heuveldop, president and head of Ericsson North America, in a statement.

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