<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/53190542.cms" /> <keyword id="6356812" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ericsson">Ericsson</keyword>, the telecom gear maker from Sweden, has decided to change its global organisational structure, transferring three of its senior executives to India. 
 
As per <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/ericsson-beefs-up-leadership-team-moves-three-senior-executives-to-india/articleshow/53182694.cms">ET</a> sources, Jose Luis Serrato, operations head of Ericsson's Latam and Caribbean region, has been moved to India as VP and head of network services. Similarly, <keyword id="3489726" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ekow-Nelson">Ekow Nelson</keyword>, head of company's consulting and systems integration business in the Middle East, is now the India head of the IT and cloud business. Other than this, <keyword id="3489526" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="david-hagerbro">David Hagerbro</keyword> would be coming down from Sweden to join as the VP and customer unit head. 
 Other than these movements, Nitin Bansal will now be heading <keyword id="330957" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ericsson-India">Ericsson India</keyword>'s network products business unit. He earlier was responsible for what Hagerbro would be doing now. 
 
"Top talent like Nelson and Serrato will strengthen the India team and accelerate our growth strategy in the country, while Bansal knows the needs of Indian operators and the market situation," Paolo Colella, Ericsson's India region head told ET. 
 
It was earlier this year that Ericsson had announced that it would be making some changes in organisational structure, in a bid to strengthen global strategy execution. 
 
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Ericsson changes global organisation structure, moves three top executives to India

<ul><li><keyword id="6356812" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="ericsson">Ericsson</keyword> just announced that they have been selected by Vodafone Idea Limited to deploy 5G-ready equipment across 8 circles in India. </li><li>This allows Ericsson to enhance Vodafone Idea’s networks with advanced LTE capabilities stepping closer towards their $27 billion goal. </li><li>Ericsson will also been providing network consolidation planning, design and network rollout services to help increase the efficiency of Vodafone Idea’s networks. </li></ul> Swedish telecom giant Ericsson will lay the fifth generation (5G) telecom network for India's largest mobile service provider, by number of subscribers, Vodafone Idea. The contract duration will be three years, according to Nitin Bansal, Ericsson's India managing director. The Stockholm-based company is hoping to capitalize on the $27 billion market potential from its 5G network roll outs in India. As a part of the deal, Ericsson will supply radio access and transport equipment from its 5G portfolio for Vodafone Idea in eight telecom circles in India. "Consolidation of the existing deployment base (2G/3G) will be carried out to maximise the spectrum on LTE," Ericsson said. In fact, Vodafone Idea is not the only Indian network that Ericsson that tie-ups for 5G integration. In one form or another, Ericsson has contracts will all major Indian telcos including Airtel and Jio. In October last year, Reliance Jio Infocomm and Ericsson unveiled jointly developed 5G use cases which were showcased over a live 5G network in Navi Mumbai and in Delhi. Ericsson is racing with Huawei, Nokia, Samsung, and Cisco in India as the world's second-largest telecommunications market, with over a billion active users as of October 2018, is set to the technology leap. The network trials by the Indian government are yet to begun though See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/What-is-5G-how-fast-is-it-and-when-is-it-coming/articleshow/67397568.cms">What is 5G, how fast is it, and when is it coming?</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/5g-phones-and-foldable-phones-speculated-to-take-center-stage-at-the-mobile-world-congress-2019/articleshow/68043768.cms">5G and foldable phones speculated to take center stage at the Mobile World Congress 2019</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/if-you-think-5g-is-all-about-faster-network-speeds-youre-wrong/articleshow/39066964.cms">If You Think 5G Is All About Faster Network Speeds, You're Wrong</a>

Ericsson's pact with Vodafone Idea is the next step towards a $27 billion goal

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 India is still dealing with issues like call drops and network issues and there is certainly a huge amount of innovation needed apart from investment in the telecom sector. This new announcement from <keyword id="6356812" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ericsson">Ericsson</keyword> is one such innovation that can enable operators to enhance capacity and coverage while saving energy and cost. Ericsson had announced their multi/dual antenna solutions couple of years back at the <keyword id="111480" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="mobile-world-congress">Mobile World Congress</keyword> and today it has finally announced the launch of new dual band radio products customized for the Indian market, Wideband Radio 2242 – a single radio addressing two spectrum bands (1800 MHz and 2100 MHz) and three standards and Dual Band Radio Dot –provides significant boost to indoor mobile broadband connectivity. It combines two frequency bands (1800 MHz and 2100 MHz) in one form factor simplifying deployment that integrates 100% with outdoor networks. 
 
This innovation can help operators deal with the ever increasing demand for data from all across India, Rajan Mathews, MD, COAI says, “These are major technology innovations that can certainly help country like India where a majority of people are still using a feature phone, these innovations will cater to multi technology handsets. These innovations can help in enhancing capacity and coverage and will also enable efficient use of spectrum and help operators in infrastructure sharing.” 
 
A dual antenna solution can help both the telecom industry and the consumers. While it can also help operators to boost capacity in a more energy and cost efficient way it can also provide a superior end customer experience. 
 
According to Nitin Bansal, Head of Network Products, Ericsson India, ”Ericsson’s latest range of dual band radio solutions have been designed to help Indian operators address this heightened demand by increasing capacity, improving coverage outdoors and indoors while enabling significant opex benefits” 
 
Ericsson Wideband Radio 2242 could work well for the Indian market since it enables operators to build compact dual-band, triple standard sites with a minimum amount of hardware, occupy 50% less space and can be deployed more easily and faster. It has instant power sharing capability that allows power to be instantly shared between carriers, standards and bands, optimizing the use of radio resources. The output power of the radio is shifted instantaneously to the band and standard where it is needed most. 
 <keyword id="4566293" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="ericsson-dual-band-radio-dot">Ericsson Dual Band Radio Dot</keyword> has been designed to provide a significant boost to indoor mobile broadband connectivity. Customized for the Indian market, this Dual Band Dot combines two frequency bands (1800 MHz and 2100 MHz) in one form factor thereby simplifying deployment, reducing the cabling cost and fully leveraging the available spectrum. Indoor environments pose special challenges for service providers as most residential and small business or venue requirements are addressed by the outside-in effect of the outdoor macro or micro networks. 
 
Network performances has been put to test in the past where the number of smartphone users in India has grown exponentially and operators have had a challenging time keeping up with the rapidly changing data usage patterns. While these products have been announced it will still be a while before it’s available for operators in India and we certainly hope it can help the operators deal with the huge growth in video and social media consumption and cater to the dramatic increase in data traffic in India.

Ericsson’s new multi band network solutions can potentially bring an end to ‘call drops’ and ‘poor data speed’ in India

<ul><li>The CEO of Nokia, Rajeev Suri, said that regardless of whether vendors are banned, the 5G rollout will be still happen as scheduled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019.</li><li>The Managing Director for Ericsson also believes that India’s 5G roll out will happen as scheduled. </li><li>But India’s issue more about the timeline of the 5G spectrum allocation rather than 5G infrastructure and technology.</li></ul> Chinese companies have been facing a lot of heat since the US banned Huawei over security concerns. But the CEO of Nokia, Rajeev Suri, <a href="https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/india-to-get-5g-by-2021-ban-on-certain-vendors-wont-delay-roll-out-nokia/article26362972.ece">maintains</a> that regardless of what happens, 5G roll-out won’t be delayed either way. 
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 Suri shared that after developed economics, emerging markets like India and Latin America will see the 5G roll outs happen by 2021 — emphasizing that security will be a top priority considering that millions of trade secrets will be shared over the 5G network. According to him countries like India which have seen skirmishes with China, haven’t taken stand to ban Huawei, but allowed the company to take part in 5G trials. Huawei <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/huawei-5g-plans-in-india-allegedly-threatened-by-trump-government/articleshow/68147829.cms">claims</a> the US government has been doing its best to block the sales of the Chinese company’s 5G equipment in India. Nokia, the second-biggest player when it comes to networks after Huawei, warned that 2019 will be slow beginning for them. Nonetheless, Suri told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-telecoms-mobileworld-nokia-5g/nokia-says-5g-would-not-be-delayed-by-ban-on-chinese-suppliers-idUSKCN1QD0ON">Reuters</a> that he expects sales to recover and show growth in 2020 as 5G deployment increases over time. Nitin Bansal, the Managing Director of Ericsson, also believes that India is on schedule with it’s 5G roll out stating, “From a products and solutions perspective we are ready,” in a conversation with Business Insider India. But the issue in India isn’t whether vendors are prepared or not, but more to do will the spectrum allocation to telecom operators. Although India is targeting 2020 for its 5G roll out, there is still disagreement over spectrum allocation even of 5G trial of use cases and its duration. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india-will-go-5g-by-2020-but-you-may-not-feel-the-difference/articleshow/63236314.cms">India will go 5G by 2020, but you won't feel the difference</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/ericsson-sees-27-billion-revenue-from-5g-as-it-sells-5g-network-equipment-to-vodafone-idea/articleshow/68075972.cms">Ericsson's pact with Vodafone Idea is the next step towards a $27 billion goal</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/huawei-5g-plans-in-india-allegedly-threatened-by-trump-government/articleshow/68147829.cms">Huawei says that the US government is trying to impede its 5G push in India</a>

5G vendors claim India’s next-gen network rollout will still happen as scheduled

<ul><li>The government wants to deploy <keyword id="764355" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="5G">5G</keyword> by 2020. </li><li>India will likely be auctioning spectrum in the 3300-3400 MHz and 3400-3600MHz bands. </li><li>In terms of technology, India might for once be at par with the rest of the world.</li></ul>We're doing it. We're going 5G, the ultimate promise of the Internet is to be delivered by 2020. Or at least that's what the Indian government would have you believe. As countries in the west stride towards a 5G future, the Indian government says it doesn't want to be left behind. But what is this claim based on? Why are we so confident that we'll deploy 5G by 2020? More importantly, Is it even possible? The fact is that despite failing to keep up on 2G, 3G and <keyword id="122479" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="4G">4G</keyword> deployment, India might actually be well placed to not just catch up but race ahead of the world this time. The rollout of 5G globally has been ahead of its estimated deployment time in a way, agrees Amit Marwah, Head, Customer Marketing and Communication at Nokia. It isn’t any different here. He further adds that most hurdles in moving to 5G in India are regulatory, meaning a properly motivated government can achieve the set milestones. At its current state, mobile connections in Tier I cities in India are already at what is called “4.5G,” which you see as LTE on your phone. "From a purely technical perspective, we have the capability to offer 5G network solutions to Indian carriers by mid-2019, but the government and industry will first need to decide on a mutually convenient timeline to auction 5G airwaves," said Nitin Bansal, Head of Network Solutions, MOAI, at Ericsson. Nokia and Ericsson are two of the biggest equipment, software and infrastructure suppliers for the <keyword id="6354776" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Telecom">telecom</keyword> industry. 
	
	
	
	
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 Technologically Ready... Telcos worldwide have been amping up their 5G preparation and trials have been underway with great enthusiasm. And this time around, India refuses to play catch up. In fact, Amit Marwah, Nokia expects proof of concepts for 5G rollout to begin by the end of the year. The company is amongst the leaders in the race for a 5G future. Others like <a href="https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/airtel-huawei-conduct-indias-first-5g-network-test-trial/63043433" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">Airtel and Huawei Technologies</a> have already conducted the first successful test of 5G networks at the beginning of this year in India. Base stations shipping from Nokia's Chennai factory are already 5G ready, as are routers and other equipment required for telecom networks. Technology-wise, India is ready. When telcos moved to 4G LTE, they switched from <a href="https://www.digit.in/telecom/understanding-how-calling-works-on-reliance-jio-31607.html" data-type="tilCustomLink">circuit-switched to packet-switched</a> networks. Packet-switched networks are newer and future facing, allowing 5G to be deployed quicker. These networks are run using computer servers instead of physical switches. They also use optical fibre in place of copper cables, which were used on the older circuit-switched networks. These packet-switched networks are at the core of future telecom infrastructure. And with leading telcos offering LTE services, their networks are already there. For instance, Jio has had a completely packet-switched network from day one. Or Not... While we may be ecstatic about India’s readiness for a 5G future, it may well be argued that its predecessor (4G), despite registering tangible growth, is still largely a Tier 1 phenomenon. That poses a very real issue for telcos in the country, and by extension the country itself. 2G has outlived its usefulness, but it still exists in India, as does 3G. These networks are tougher to upgrade because of reasons explained above. 
	
	
	
	
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 "To capture the full opportunities of 5G, it will require an evolution of the whole network and not just parts of it. The best way to start would be to build an efficient 4G network and while doing that, modernise the legacy equipment that can only operate on 2G," said Ericsson's Bansal. “It is also important to prepare for automation of 5G operations as the increased opportunities and complexities of the 5G business landscape will require a much higher degree of automation and self-service," he added. Both Marwah and Bansal say that a roadmap for 5G is important . The Indian government has already set up panels for these, and spectrum auctions are next. The primary difference here is, the US plans to start 5G spectrum auctions by the end of 2018, while we're yet to get word on that for India. In fact, telcos have asked for spectrum auctions to be deferred due to financial strain. But consumers still have to wait... A colleague recently asked me why India is talking about 5G when it could be focusing on 4G. And it's true, 4G is yet to live out its life in the country. But then again, business is never truly done for consumer benefits. Businesses have higher spending power than consumers, and service providers go where the money is, especially with emerging technologies. You may have read reports about how 5G will allow you to download movies in seconds. And that's true, but that's only when 5G becomes a mainstream affair. But as Marwah says, 5G initially will help where it can. And that, in essence, will be for enterprises. In October 2017, Thomas Noren, Head of 5G Commercialisation at Ericsson <a href="https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2017/10/5g-readiness-on-the-rise" data-type="tilCustomLink">said</a> that operators will use 5G “not only in the consumer segment but also with enterprise users and specialised industries”. Noren was talking about the <a href="https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2017/10/5g-readiness-on-the-rise">Ericsson 2017 5G Readiness Survey</a>. As Marwah correctly points out, deployment for enterprises doesn't mean consumers won't see the benefit. It's just that mass rollout of 5G may take longer. When companies get better services, their own services can improve, which in turn helps you. Yet, that's tough to quantify. So, when will you actually feel the benefits of 5G? <keyword id="104695" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Qualcomm">Qualcomm</keyword> <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/qualcomms-x50-5g-modem-is-being-launched-by-xiaomi-and-whole-hoard-of-companies" data-type="tilCustomLink">recently</a> tied up with about a dozen OEMs so that smartphones can start supporting 5G. When that happens, and it's expected to by 2019, you will be able to "feel" the benefits of 5G. That is if telcos are ready by then. When we say India will move to 5G by 2020 though, it will probably benefit businesses first. It helps in the Internet of Things, automobiles and more, that need low latency connectivity. Latency here means the time taken for data to travel from your phone/car to the required server. With 5G, latency can be as low as 1 millisecond, something Airtel also demonstrated in its test recently. So, where does India stand? Simply put, India is indeed en route to achieving 5G deployment by 2020. But you may not see tangible benefits of the same till at least a few years later. Aruna Sundararajan, Telecom Secretary and Chairman of India's Telecom Commission, recently said that the <keyword id="106128" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="National-Telecom-Policy">National Telecom Policy</keyword> of 2018 is going to include 5G spectrum auctions. These will likely be the 3300-3400Mhz/3400-3600MHz bands, as mentioned by Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/telcos-want-government-to-postpone-5g-spectrum-auctions-till-fy20/articleshow/62841665.cms">earlier</a>. As long as telcos are onboard to buy spectrum and the government works out the right regulations, India is indeed on track to move to 5G by 2020.

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