As part of the World Economic Forum-aligned EDISON Alliance 1 Billion Lives Challenge, Ericsson additionally pledged to positively influence one million children and youth by 2025 by providing access to digital learning and skill development initiatives.

MTN Global Sourcing and Supply Chain (GSSC) has successfully deployed Ericsson’s Customer Order Dashboard (ECOD) system.The solution has resulted in greater business efficiency by enabling end-to-end visibility of MTN’s orders and delivery process.

Ericsson has launched Edge Exposure Server, which enables new corporate and consumer services via simple and enhanced APIs for edge applications. Combined they enable new services requiring low latency, high bandwidth and capabilities such as device processing and data offload. Edge computing consists of five technology areas including edge infrastructure, -user plane, -routing, -orchestration and exposure.

5G deployments are accelerating around the world, with early adopters preparing for the transition to 5G Standalone to drive new consumer and commercial use cases. Bringing 5G to market need more spectrum and hardware, which is where Ericsson’s new solutions come in, with the potential to increase capacity while reducing power consumption, therefore fuelling attempts to break the energy curve.

A press release from Ericsson announced that the company has launched IoT Accelerator Connect to bring its capabilities to enterprises and development projects of all sizes.