MASMOVIL Group has extended its 5G partnership with Ericsson with a new contract, renewing its role as its main core network supplier in Spain.
With this agreement, Ericsson will transform MASMOVIL Group’s existing core network in Spain with the latest 5G Standalone technology products and solutions to offer the most innovative 5G services to its customers. This core network transformation project to evolve MASMOVIL Group’s network supports the evolution to 5G standalone includes: Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core, Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure, Ericsson Cloud IMS, automated CI/CD, Ericsson Orchestrator, CENX Service Assurance and 5G Managed Services.
MASMOVIL Group subscribers will continue to enjoy the most modern mobile networks with the new 5G standalone technology.
The new core will help to introduce 5G quickly and efficiently while maintaining and expanding existing services and it also includes capabilities to open up the network to a partner’s ecosystem facilitating business innovation through the Ericsson Network Exposure function. Grupo MASMOVIL already offers 5G services in more than 300 municipalities across all Spanish provinces and over the next few days will expand the coverage of these services to new populations.
Meinrad Spenger, CEO MASMOVIL Group
We believe in innovation and virtualized and secure networks to be able to offer our customers the best services on the fastest and most modern networks in the market.
José Antonio López Muñoz, Head of Ericsson Spain
Their selection of the Ericsson portfolio to implement their growth and evolution plans is a great example of how our best-in-class 5G technologies can be effectively used to evolve and transform existing core networks.
