Ericsson is continuing to support SoftBank Corp., a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., with 5G Proof of Concept (PoC) activities. The two companies are set to conduct a joint end-to-end trial of 5G in the 4.5GHz band in the urban areas of Japan.
Considered pre-commercial, this will be the first end-to-end 5G trial including two 5G New Radios, virtual RAN, virtual EPC, beamforming, Massive MIMO functionalities and test support services.
The trial will start once SoftBank obtains the experimental license.
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Ericsson supports Softbanks IoT in Japan (Apr 2017)
SoftBank and Ericsson to demonstrate 5G 28GHz (Mar 2017)
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