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A group of leading mobile operators are banding together to create a standalone company tasked with coordinating their API efforts, a move aimed at reducing fragmentation in apps and services in collaboration with Ericsson and Google Cloud.

Ericsson backed LTE and 5G to deliver significant benefits to the rail industry spanning operational efficiency, safety and improved customer service as it pressed the case for updating systems running on a railway-specific version of GSM.

Ericsson unit Vonage inked a deal with software giant SAP to develop enhanced digital enterprise applications using the latter’s AI offering and the telecoms vendor’s API platform.  

Ericsson revealed it deployed its latest purpose-built RAN compute platform with Australian operator Telstra earlier this month, paving the way for the rollout of 5G-Advanced in the nation.

Vietnamese educational facility the Postal and Telecommunications Institute of Technology agreed a collaboration with Ericsson covering digital skills training, part of a national transformation plan centred on 5G, AI and other related technologies.

Ericsson expects to pocket a cool SEK10.6 billion from the sale of number portability and data exchange services subsidiary iconectiv, a US-based unit it arranged to offload to Koch Equity Development.

Ericsson struck a multi-year cross-licensing patent agreement with handset vendor Oppo covering mobile technologies including 5G, in addition to a business cooperation deal.