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Ericsson has sent out an internal memo announcing it'll lay off 8,500 employees worldwide. The move is part of the company's cost-cutting strategy due to slow demand for telecom equipment.

Another tech company, Ericsson, has announced that it will cease its business operations in Russia over the next few months in its obligations to customers, as a result of the Ukraine war.

AT&T has joined the Ericsson Startup 5G hub which will allow the carrier to connect with startups developing new products and services that leverage 5G networks that have recently been deployed.

Ericsson Cloud RAN has passed the GSMA NESAS audit, and the products in scope for this audit include Central Unit-Control Plane, Central Unit-User Plane, Distributed Unit, and RAN Service Discovery.

Ericsson has launched the beta of Ericsson Routes, a service that it hopes will optimise the routes autonomous vehicles take by improving coverage in low-connectivity areas where information degrades.

Ericsson has released its latest Mobility Report and it reveals that mobile data traffic has increased 300-fold since 2011. It said that data usage increased faster as 5G came online.

The analyst firm TrendForce has stated that industrial metaverse revenue will reach $540 billion by 2025 as companies begin to incorporate technologies such as digital twins into their processes.

Ericsson has decided to buy the cloud-based communications provider Vonage. Ericsson expects the deal to close in the first half of 2022 and will pay $6.2 billion as part of the deal.

Ericsson has formed a partnership with MIT to begin work on hardware that will enable next-gen 5G and 6G networks. The partners did not provide a roadmap of when they expect to complete the work.

Ericsson has sponsored a new report which has found that connecting more schools to the internet in poor countries, would help to raise the GDP per capita of those countries by as much as 20%.

Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, and Cosmote have carried out successful trials on W-band technology to boost capacity on 5G networks. They said it will also help in next-generation 6G networks.

Ericsson has announced the launch of Ericsson Open Lab, a virtual environment for Ericsson Cloud RAN customers and ecosystem partners to innovate on virtualized 5G RAN technologies.

Ericsson is working with Telia and Sahlgrenska University Hospital to build AI models that allow the hospital to receive COVID-19 patients in a more prepared manner, ensuring enough supplies.

Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom have found that solar grids can power two-thirds of the energy requirements needed for one of the latter's mobile sites located in Germany, helping cut emissions.

Nokia has become the head of an EU research project into 6G called Hexa-X. The firm said that it expects 6G to become commercially available to consumers in a decade around the year 2030.

BT will use Ericsson hardware in cities around the UK after the two firms came to an agreement. Ericsson already supplies hardware for BT's core network making it an end-to-end partner in places.

An ex-boss of BT, Lord Livingston, has been selected to head the U.K.'s Telecoms Diversification Task Force, a body that will provide expert advice to the government as it diversifies mobile networks.

The UK government has decided to ban Huawei hardware from 5G mobile networks from the end of the year. The government decided not to restrict its use in 2G, 3G, and 4G networks though.

Ericsson announced today that it is backing out from the Mobile World Congress 2020 due to health risks from the novel coronavirus outbreak. The company says it will focus on local demos, instead.

The UK government has finally come to the decision that it will allow Huawei hardware to be used in 5G networks but with several restrictions. Only 35% of a network will be able to use Huawei tech.

5G infrastructure revenues could see a compound annual growth rate of 118% according to IDC. The firm claimed that the market's revenues will reach $26 billion in 2022, up from $528 million this year.

Ericsson and Telstra have completed the deployment and testing of a narrowband IoT data connection in Australia, extending its 3GPP standards-based range limit from 40km to 100km.

T-Mobile has been the most outspoken carrier in regards to its plans for 5G networks, and after doing the same with Nokia, it has now signed a $3.5 billion deal with its rival Ericsson.

Mozilla has announced plans to work with AT&T and Ericsson to work on a way for Firefox web browsers to make phone calls without the use of a plugin via the WebRTC standard.