Ericsson to offer AI solutions to telcos

5G deployments to cool, but fixed wireless access will lift business

- Gulveen Aulakh

Ericsson intends to beef up its India presence as local telcos will demand the latest technology ahead of their global peers, the company's president and chief executive officer Börje Ekholm said.

"India is a big market, a growing market, and an early adopter of digital technologies. More importantly, it's a technology-leading market today, so we need to deploy the latest technologies in India in order to accommodate the growth in traffic and have energy efficiency at the same time. So, for us, big presence in India is critical for our long-term development of the technology as well," Ekholm said in an interview on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.