 Hi Voornaam It seems that lately at every opportunity the senior management of Ericsson, including the Swedish company's CEO Borje Ekholm, have gone into bat for their fiercest rival on the world stage of telecoms equipment supply Huawei. In the latest salvo Ekholm has criticised his own government for joining the US and other countries and imposing a ban against the Chinese telco's involvement in Sweden's 5G rollout. The question is why is a company like Ericsson publicly offering moral and vocal support for its most serious competitor? We offer an answer that has nothing to do with the rhetoric Ericsson is voicing.
As for the 5G market, the future is looking very rosy to the tune of $13.1 trillion and 22.8 million jobs, according to a new forecast.
Meanwhile in the US, Silicon Valley cybersecurity and firewall specialist Palo Alto Networks has unveiled what it claims is the industry's first 5G-native security solution.
Ericsson's Nordic rival Nokia has announced what the company claims is the world’s first 25 Gbps symmetrical PON (passive optical network) fibre broadband solution.
China Telecom claims it has launched what it says is the world’s largest 5G standalone (SA) network.
We have a lot of stories about phones in today's edition, which is very timely because a new report sees demand for 5G phones increasing next year.
Finally, if happen to be paying through the nose for a top tier fixed line connection delivered via HFC on Australia's NBN, check out our story from a slightly tipsy journalist who attended an online wine and cheese cionference staged by Cisco.
There are plenty more stories in today's edition and of course an order of magnitude more on wirefreez.com.
Best regards
Stan Beer
Editor in Chief
Recent news that Ericsson chief executive Borje Ekholm has once again slammed the Huawei 5G ban may seem puzzling to some, as the Chinese telecommunications is his company's biggest competitor. But it really is quite understandable.
In his latest salvo, Ekholm in an interview with the Financial Times openly criticised ...
A media statement by Ericsson chief executive Borje Ekholm to the effect that vendors should not be banned from 5G without properly balancing national security concerns with free competition has been hailed by Huawei Australia as a "welcome injection of… 
Cybersecurity firewalls specialist Palo Alto Networks has announced what it claims is the industry’s first 5G-native security offering, which the Silicon Valley company claims brings its expertise in securing networks, clouds and devices to the 5G world. According to Palo…
Finnish telecommunications equipment provider Nokia has announced what the company claims is the world’s first 25 Gbps symmetrical PON (passive optical network) fibre broadband solution. According to Nokia, which recently participated the world speed record for a mmWave 5G transmission,… 
China Telecom claims it has launched what it says is the world’s largest 5G standalone (SA) network. Executives announced the start of commercial 5G SA operations during a company cloud conference last week and said the 5G SA network is currently supported by 30 devices, with 100 expected by year-end.
China Telecom’s ...
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Finnish wireless 5G networking provider Nokia has won a deal with Switzerland's largest telecoms operator, the majority government-owned Swisscom, to be the exclusive supplier for 5G FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) equipment.
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The good folk who man the security agencies in Australia have cleverly pounced on admissions by Google and Facebook during a parliamentary inquiry, that they do not honour 20% of the requests for data disclosure, to push that well-worn barrow: end-to-end encryption will lead to Armageddon.
It is a little wearying ...
Microsoft has announced a new chip designed in collaboration with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm that it says will add security to future Windows PCs.
Named Microsoft Pluton security processor, the device is claimed to remove the potential for attacks between the CPU and the Truster Platform Module through the communication channel ...
Telsyte sees demand for 5G smartphones increasing next year
The demand for 5G smartphones will increase next year with 39% of users indicating that their devices "must support 5G", with the figure going up to 58% for those who planned to upgrade, the telecommunications analyst firm Telsyte says.
The company said in a statement on Tuesday that there were less ...
Huawei sells budget smartphone unit Honor to 30 agents and dealers
Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has sold its budget smartphone business, Honor, to Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology for an unspecified sum.
The buyers are 30 dealers who will form the new company.
According to a Huawei statement, the sale was carried out because the company's consumer business had been under ...
The Chinese realme smartphone brand has recorded 132% growth quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter, to become the fastest to reach 50 million shipments, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says, quoting figures from its Market Monitor service.
The firm said that top OEMs like Huawei, Apple, OPPO, vivo and LG had ...
Like many of its cousins from its parent company, electronics giant B.B.K. Electronics, the vivo Y20S is a solidly constructed device, one of many 4G smartphones hitting the Australian market as companies realise that 5G smartphones are really not needed here given the current state of the 5G rollout.
vivo, which ...
The OPPO A53 is another one of those nicely built 4G smartphones to emerge from the belly of B.B.K. Electronics, with plenty of premium features but a price that will not break the bank.
At $299, the device is hardly a strain on the pocket. Exactly how a phone with this ...
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